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O!PLA FOCUS ON POLAND vol. 11 is a unique program presenting the winners and movies of the 11th O!PLA Animation Festival (2023). As always the only Jury at O!PLA was the audience. In 2023 from 30 cities in Poland (O!PLA means „Oh! Polish Animation”, but also: “Oh! People Love Animation”). O!PLA FOCUS ON POLAND is an annual prestigious selection; an amazing mix of techniques, styles, and emotions showing what happens in modern Polish animation. Starting off 2013, the unique animation festival O!PLA consequently grows in strength, but one thing remains the same - independence and passion, which stand behind the O!PLA.
Running time 62 min.
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Poland | 01:20 | 2022
The animation shows a beautiful land destroyed by war and plunged into the tears of simple people, but the land is reborn from the ashes.
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Poland, USA | 03:19 | 2021
Turn right, go straight, turn left. A collage of Polaroid photos of road signs in the United States in the first half of the 1990s. A game of Chinese with photos and an example of unpretentious visual archaeology. Where did the arrows lead? Can these places still exist?
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Poland | 10:05 | 2022
You are sitting on a train, your thoughts are running away somewhere. You have the impression that your head is falling off and your hand is no longer in its place. Have the other passengers noticed this? Relax, it is only happening in your head...
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Poland | 01:30 | 2022
A metaphorical representation of internal self-destruction and constant struggle with one's own nature.
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Poland | 04:08 | 2022
"Factory" is a clay animated picture for a song by the band Elektronikt, which the author co-creates with Sebastian Kalota. The film and the song take us to a workplace straight from the 80s of the twentieth century, which sets the rhythm of life of its employees. In fact, the film has a universal dimension. Each of us can identify with the protagonists of the film and the emotions they experience.
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Poland | 02:58 | 2022
Short animated cartoon depicting the fate of two one-day-old baby chicks. The film uncovers the little-known and cruel practices of the egg industry.
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Poland, Portugal | 04:26 | 2022
A dark tale of revenge, inspired by Slavic folk culture. A feminist fairy tale with a bloody finale.
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Poland | 04:28 | 2022
The non-linear narrative circulates between the worlds of metaphor, memories and hyperbolic reality. The inhabitants of each of the dimensions face challenges for which they are not prepared. What to do when rationality becomes unbearable?
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Poland | 02:35 | 2022
A sentimental journey to youthful carefree memories. When everything seemed simpler, trivial things gave joy, and sitting together on a bench in the company of friends was not unusual. But time dispelled everything. Ordinary everyday life has become a distant memory.
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Poland | 06:10 | 2022
An abstract experimental film set to music by Danish performer Sofie Birch. The film was made using stop-motion animation, film, computer animation and post-production. It is a game between abstraction and figurativeness aimed at creating the best possible accompaniment to music using cinematic means of expression.
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Poland | 02:45 | 2021
Stop motion visualization of searching for the element of primality and the idea of returning to the roots.
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Poland | 05:46 | 2022
The ambient track ZEN for TV is a nostalgic recollection of the times when you could get to the end of a TV show. Television stopped broadcasting a few minutes after midnight. After that, there was only black and white noise on the screen. With some imagination, you could see Zen stone gardens amid the noise, being patiently raked by a silent monk. Staring at the end of a TV show is a kind of late 80's electronic meditation.
