DON’T LOSE YOUR HEAD
POLISH TITLE: NIE TRAĆ GŁOWY
“Don’t Lose Your Head” – a short animation using drawing and 2D techniques. It is a visual story about how easy it is to lose one’s head. A white head rolls slowly towards the centre of a black screen. One event triggers an avalanche of others. The visual side of the film develops with the film narration. Starting from simple compositions through successive number of layouts and density of forms up to the final scenes full of colours like in a kaleidoscope. An abundance of thoughts, relations and connections leads to a tragic ending.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRYI:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 4'
- YEAR:
- 2015
- DIRECTING:
- Karolina Specht
- SCRIPT:
- Karolina Specht
- DOP:
- Karolina Specht
- EDITOR:
- Karolina Specht
- SOUND:
- Wiesław Nowak
- ANIMATION:
- Karolina Specht
- PRODUCER:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Karolina Specht »
Born in 1991 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Graduate of Secondary School of Fine Arts in Bydgoszcz and The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz. She is a director, an animator and a graphic designer. Her two movies (An incredibly elastic man, Don't lose your head) was screened in the student competition at the International Animation Film Festival Annecy in France. In 2013,she received the Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for outstanding achievements for students of art schools. Minister scholarship for 2015/2016.
AT FESTIVALS:
- Quebec City Film Festival 2019, Canada, 2019 (screening)
- Monstronale International Short Film Festival 2018, Germany, 2018 (screening)
- Tampere Film Festival 2018, Finland, 2018 (screening)
- 12th Femina International Women’s Film Festival, Brazil, 2017 (screening)
- 1st Hancheng International Short Film Festival, China, 2017 (competition)
- 1st ReAnima Film Festival, Norway, 2017 (competition)
- Long week-end du court, Canada, 2017 (screening)
- BeThere!2017 Corfu Animation Festival, Greece, 2017 (competition)
- 28th Istanbul International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2016 (competition)
- Anima Mundi 2016 - International Animation Festival of Brazil, Brazil, 2016 (screening)
- 2nd Bit Bang Fest 2016, Argentina, 2016 (screening)
- KROK International Animated Film Festival 2016, Russia/Ukraine, 2016 (competition)
- 22nd Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The United Kingdom, 2016 (Animated European Award 2016 )
- Limoux en Short Festival, France, 2016 (competition)
- 12th Lago Film Fest 2016, Italy, 2016 (screening)
- 16th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF, Poland, 2016 (competition)
- 9th International Animation Festival Fest Anca, Slovakia, 2016 (competition)
- Melbourne International Animation Festival 2016, Australia, 2016 (competition)
- Australian International Animation Festival 2016, Australia, 2016 (competition)
- Northwest Animation Festival 2016, USA, 2016 (competition)
- Dortmund | Cologne International Women's Film Festival, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- 18th Mecal Pro - Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival, Spain, 2016 (competition)
- 12th Animateka International Animation Festival, Slovenia, 2015 (competition)
- 17th International Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams, Estonia, 2015 (competition)
- 58th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany, 2015 (screening)
- 8th Banjaluka IAFF, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2015 (screening)
- 31st Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (screening)
- 8th CinEast Central and Eastern European Film Festival, Luxembourg, 2015 (competition)
- Encounters - 21st Short Film & Animation Festival, UK, 2015 (competition)
- 39th Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France, 2015 (competition)