Fight, Love and Work
Poland2009animated9'Retrospektywa Piotra Dumały (2021)
People appear in the rippling field of wheat. In this unique animated ballet one can recognize figures from the paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Francisco de Goya, Honoré Daumier and Jean-François Millet. Pictures in a loop are accompanied by expressive music of an excellent Romanian composer, Alexandr Bǎlǎnescu. In this striking impression Dumała combined his technique of plasterboard plates with pastel drawings and computer animation. The premiere took place at the monumental wall of the Four Denominations District during the 9th New Horizons Film Festival in Wrocław, crowning the author’s retrospective.
- 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
- Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak
- animated by
- Piotr Dumała
- music
- Alexander Balanescu
- editing
- Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak
- production
- (Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty), (Andersa Street Art and Media)
- Photo
