BODY
POLISH TITLE: CIAŁO
In her latest film, Paulina Majda sees body as a material and means of expression. Her skin becomes a screen and canvas which absorbs the images projected on it. Defenceless, she accepts them and, at the same time, gives them a new, more personal meaning. In this autothematic act Majda explores her own boundaries focusing on the relationship between the artist and her material. The film, inspired by Czesław Miłosz’s poem The Body, was developed as part of the project Poetry in Images launched by the Pogranicze Foundation based in Sejny.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 5'
- YEAR:
- 2014
- DIRECTING:
- Paulina Majda
- SCRIPT:
- Paulina Majda
- DOP:
- Paulina Majda
- EDITOR:
- Paulina Majda
- MUSIC:
- Konstantin Trokai, Chris Zabriskie
- ANIMATION:
- Paulina Majda
- PRODUCTION:
- Fundacja Pogranicze w Sejnach, Międzynarodowe Centrum Dialogu w Krasnogrudzie
Paulina Majda »
Graduate of the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz, specialisation: animation. Costume designer, painter, stills photographer, lecturer. She has made several original animated short films, shown and awarded at festivals in Poland and abroad (among others in Annecy, Gdynia, Koszalin, London, Melbourne, Paris, Poznan, Seoul, Trebon, in Italy). Her film Tango was screened on TV channels: Canal+, Kino Polska, Wien TV. She was among winners of the competition for the best painting debut "Tolerance". Holder of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture. In 2005/06 she worked as assistant set designer and stills photographer on Peter and the Wolf, an animated film by Suzie Templeton, which won the Oscar in 2007.
AT FESTIVALS:
- 55th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2015 (screening)