Polish Animation (Piotr Dumala)

Piotr Dumala, acclaimed Polish animator whose beautiful plaster-engraved works are steeped in the worlds of Kafka, Dostoevsky and existentialism. In Dumala’s shadowy world we find darkness, emptiness, and loneliness; alienated individuals fragmented from the world at large, unable to articulate the range of emotions that quiver uncomfortably within them.

Nerwowe Zycie Kosmosu (Jittery Life in Space), 1986, 4:00

Sciany (Walls), 1987, 8:00

Wolnosć Nogi (Freedom of the Leg), 1988, 10:00

Franz Kafka, 1991,16:00

Animation workshop by Piotr Dumala

See some more of Dumala’s work on the ACMEfilmworks site.

Read The Philosophical Stone of Animation article by Piotr Dumala.

Also read a conversation with Piotr Dumala and Jerzy Kucia (by Melissa Chimovitz).