INSECT
POLISH TITLE: INSEKT
Pascal lives with his parents in a city full of smog. The dense fog confuses the citizens. The smoke hides the secrets of both people and infamous... insects. The discovery of one of those secrets changes Pascal's life.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 30'
- YEAR:
- 2021
- COLOUR:
- black and white
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Podolec
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Podolec
- DOP:
- Kacper Zamarło, Marcin Podolec
- EDITOR:
- Marcin Podolec, Patrycja Piróg
- MUSIC:
- Wojtek Kurek
- PRODUCTION:
- Yellow Tapir Studio
Marcin Podolec »
Marcin Podolec - born in 1991 in Jarosław, Poland; comic artist, animator, currently works mostly on documentaries and biographies. A graduate (2015) of The Polish National Film School in Lodz (Animation department). His books are published by Kultura Gniewu; co-author of the comic albums: Captain Sheer (2010), Insight (2014) and Sometimes (2011), which was awarded The Comic Book of the Year in Poland; writer and illustrator of All Taken (2012) and Fugazi Music Club (2013), which was sold to several international publishers (Italy, France, Germany, Spain). His short animadoc A Documentary Film (2015) was screened and awarded at many film festivals, such as the DOK Lepizig, SICAF (Seoul) and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. His next animated documentary, The Gentle Giant (2016), is his graduate film.
- Kaboom Animation Festival 2022, The Netherlands, 2022 (screening)
- 46th International Animated Film Festival Cinanima, Portugal, 2022 (screening)
- Athens Animafest, 2022, Greece, 2022 (Special Mention)
- 39th Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2022 (competition)