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project supported by
The Diverse Languages
of Short Films
This is the third edition of „POLISH SHORTS”, which
includes a set of 12 short feature films, documentaries, and animations
made in 2010. Interestingly, they are not only the work of
Polish artists, since among them we find Maska by the Brothers
Quay, an animated adaptation of a short story by Stanisław Lem,
and the etude Sing Me to Sleep by Magnus Arnesen, a Norwegian
student from the Łodź Film School.
Also, figuratively speaking, the Polish film-makers speak to
us in different languages, either commenting on the given reality,
or creating their own autonomous worlds on the screen. In the form
of short animations, young directors talk about functioning in a
global society: temples of capitalist consumerism (The Gallery by
Robert Proch) or the daily horrors of information (Talk to Him by
Agata Prętka). As if moving against these trends, other directors
highlight the peripheral nature of their country (especially in the
documentaries The End of the World by Mateusz Skalski, and A
Piece of Summer by Marta Minorowicz). Others penetrate the
internal microcosms of their peculiar characters (as does Bartek
Kulas in his animated film Millhaven, or Kuba Czekaj in his short
feature Twist & Blood). Documentary film directors are eagerly
searching for a new language with which to tackle the problems
of older and more recent Polish history (the Stalinist era in
Interrogation by Adam Palenta, or the tragic events of April 2010 in
Returns by Krzysztof Kadłubowski). The creators of short features
are willing to play with a variety of genres (The Whisper by Leszek
Korusiewicz), or experiment with various film forms, as is the case
with an interesting sociological experiment, represented in this set
by Heroic Parrot with the Dog by Marcin Sławek, a film from the New
Urban Legends series.
The common denominator in these approaches is the
personal nature of every title presented. Each of them speaks in
the language of an individual sensibility.
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