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NIBBLING OF THE NIGHT

POLISH TITLE: NOCNE PODGRYZANIE

Suzy and Billy are an unhappy middle-aged couple whose affection has long faded away. Suzy  feels used by her careless husband, enslaved by the role of a subordinate housewife. She  escapes from her worries and loneliness into an addiction of night's gluttony, spending night  hours next to the kitchen’s refrigerator. However, one night, her depressing fate is going to change  thanks to a visit of two female vampires, who become for her a model of the strong, independent,  and emancipated woman she always wanted to be. 

"Nibbling of the Night" is a women-empowering film and a black comedy with an inspiring moral,  which, under a mask of humour, presents a story about the mutual understanding of three women  who help each other, creating a female alliance. Although they seem to be the exact opposite of  one another, they are united by a common desire for freedom, happiness and living as  independent and emancipated. 

The animation contains numerous references to Gothic literature, and all the characters'  dialogues are spoken in rhymes similarly to the Polish stage dramas of the Romantic era. 

The film was made using the classic stop-motion puppet animation technique. 

Everything in the animation was hand-made, hand-painted, and hand-animated. This 12-minute  long film took over three years of hard work to create.

GENRE:
animation
COUNTRYI:
Polska, Wielka Brytania
RUNNING TIME:
12'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
kolorowy
DIRECTING:
Gabi Bania
SCRIPT:
Gabi Bania
DOP:
Gabi Bania
EDITOR:
Gabi Bania
ANIMATION:
Gabi Bania
PRODUCER:
Gabi Bania

Gabi Bania »

Gabi Bania graduated from the Film High School with Bilingual Departments at Warsaw Film School. Her greatest passion is creating animated films, in which field she is a self-taught one. Gabi Bania's portfolio includes short animated films made in various techniques, which, since 2018, have been presented and awarded at over 100 different festivals and film reviews in 22 countries around the world. In 2020, as the first international student and the first creator of animated films, she became a laureate of the "Hothouse" program organized by the Irish "Fresh International Film Festival".  Gabi also deals with drawing and painting, creates artistic photos, photobooks, writes texts, including film scripts, stories, and poetry. In September 2020, she began studying Computer Animation Art and Design at Bournemouth University in the UK.
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