Lycanthropy

Poland1981animated5'Retrospektywa Piotra Dumały (2021)

Lykantrophy is a night transformation of a man into a wolf-like creature that returns to the human shape before dawn. A man is a wolf to another man. A gloomy tale about false wolves or people dressed in wolf skins who become, sooner or later, exposed and devoured. Dumała, who has never completed a film school, is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts where he obtained a diploma from the Stone Sculpture Conservation Studio. He became acquainted with animation during his study when he attended classes offered by Professor Daniel Szczechura. This eminent artist and pedagogue, who was the artistic supervisor of Lykantropia, discovered Dumała as a filmmaker.

directed by
Piotr Dumała

Piotr Dumała – animated and feature film director and graphic artist. He was born in 1956. His films, including A Gentle Creature (1985), Freedom of the Leg (1988), Franz Kafka (1991) and Crime and Punishment (2000) won over 70 awards at international festivals (among others, in Kraków, Zagreb, Annecy). In 2009 he made his feature debut The Forest. Dumała teaches at the Film School in Łódź, Konstfack College in Eksjo and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

cinematography
Stanisław Kucner
script
Piotr Dumała
animated by
Piotr Dumała
music
Aleksander Korecki, Andrzej Przybielski
sound
Mieczysław Janik
editing
Henryka Sitek
production
(Studio Małych Form Filmowych Se-Ma-For)
Photo
Kadr z filmu Lycanthropy