Ederly

Poland2015fiction87'Retrospektywa Piotra Dumały (2021)

The second feature film made by the master of animation. ‘I have dreamt about the starting point for the plot: at someone’s home someone is taken for someone else than they really are’ – says the director. As it may happen in dreams, the protagonist’s behaviour is far from any cause and effect logic. Mariusz Bonaszewski plays an art conservator, a character similar to Dumała who had studied art conservation before he became an animator. This surreal comedy and philosophical tale in one also features Dr Character (not only as an off-screen sound) revelling in haggis.

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
Adam Sikora
script
Piotr Dumała
cast
Mariusz Bonaszewski, Helena Norowicz, Aleksandra Popławska, Piotr Skiba
music
Selma Mutal
editing
Beata Walentowska
production
(Andersa Street Art and Media)
Photo
Kadr z filmu Ederly