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VANILLA//WHIP

POLISH TITLE: KLIMAT I WANILIA

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Vanilla Whip - animated documentary film which breaks social taboo about Polish BDSM with documentary-recorded sound. The story of four people with absolutely different approach to BDSM and vision of themselves. In this world anonymity meets self-awareness and safety confronts with riding on the edge. The director enters the hermetic world of BDSM people to get to know their everyday life in the difficult reality of contemporary Poland. Personal confessions of main characters are illustrated by animations of the director who filters these stories by her own sensibility in the context of the Polish society. Full of contrast image of BDSM community - marked by sex, whip, mystery and Virgin Mary. ‘It's a fairy tale for adults about the pain, pleasure, freedom, self-acceptance and… love’, says the director of the film.

TRAILER
GENRE:
animation
COUNTRY:
POLAND
RUNNING TIME:
16'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Bogna Kowalczyk
SCRIPT:
Bogna Kowalczyk
EDITOR:
Michał Poddębniak
MUSIC:
Piotr Czubin
ANIMATION:
Bogna Kowalczyk, Katarzyna Melnyk, Liliana Pomykalska
PRODUCTION:
PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)

Bogna Kowalczyk »

Director, animator, alum of the world-famous Lodz Film School (Direction of Animation) and The Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (New Media Arts). Bogna currently works as creative art director, animator and director at Warsaw Production. Her work often combines traditional techniques with a modern approach. Since 2009, she has supported dozens of short films and music videos as animator, CGI expert, script doctor and assistant director. She has made projects for Universal, Sony, Netflix and other brands.

One of her most complex projects is the short animation KLIMAT I WANILIA, which presents the BDSM culture in Warsaw, Poland. Her most experimental work is FIFTH ELEMENT, which was entirely animated in dyed ice. She has also made videos for a contemporary staging of #Hansel#and#Gretel, as well as conceptual concert visuals for the popular jazz band Wojciech Mazolewski Quintet. BOYLESQUE is her full-length feature directorial debut.

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