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Festivals and screenings
Animation
Robert Sowa, Adam Wyrwas
Photography
Marcin Koszałka
Music and sound
Ewa Trębacz
Editing
Anna Wagner
Producer
Stowarzyszenie Twórców Filmu Animowanego Eksperymentalnego i Video Studio A
medium: film 35 mm, color
technique: mixed media, stop motion, painting, photography
film format 1: 1.66
sound format: Dolby SR
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Sekwens is a study of solitude. The main character imagines the presence of someone close and beloved who has left. Those memories are so tense that for a short moment they become physically real, which is presented through gestures, light movement and transformations of objects.
The internal language of the film was created equally by all the media, which resulted in a very specific collaboration of all the artists involved in the project. There was no typical 'division' of tasks as in a classical film production. It happened several times that a composer/sound designer would re-edit the video, while the animator kept re-editing audio, influencing each other in order to achieve an organic relationship between visual and sonic spaces. This way the form of the work has been re-shaped several times, (for instance the opening section grew from initial 10 seconds to almost a minute, as a result of a constant feedback between the artists).
Robert Sowa (b.1972, Poland) is a director of animated films and a graphics artist. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Graphics Department, in 1999, specializing in animated film. Currently he works as an instructor and associate of professor Jerzy Kucia at the Studio of Animated Films, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków. Robert's works have been presented in Poland and internationally (among others at Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Arts, New York), his earlier films The Barber and Interior Portrait have been screened at numerous film festivals. Robert actively participates in organizing screenings, festivals and workshops of experimental film and video (yearly International Animated Film Workshops in Kraków, 2003 - Perspectives of Animated Films, Dresden, Prague, Kraków, during the International Film Festival FILMFEST, Dresden and many others).
Sekwens is Robert Sowa's Ph.D. dissertation project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland.
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