EWA TRĘBACZ [read like: Eva Trembatch]

Sequence

(2007)

animated film by Robert Sowa, music by Ewa Trębacz

Robert Sowa - SEKWENS from Robert Sowa on Vimeo.

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 a Director of the Animation Film Studio, Academy of Fine Arts Krakow, Poland,  and is a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University, Institute of Audio-Visual Arts, also in Kraków.

Robert Sowa’s films have been presented in Poland and internationally at numerous festivals and screenings, among others at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Modern Arts in New York, Festival del Film Locarno in Switzerland, Anima Mundi Gallery,  Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasil, Center for Contemporary Art (CCCB) in Barcelona, and Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and National Museum in Kraków, Poland.

In his films, he often explores connections between visual experimentation and sound, and creates his language through the relationship between visual and sonic spaces. His major interest is in expression of human emotions, suspended between the material and the imaginary world. In his animations he combines various techniques such us stop motion, mixed media, lighting, painting, and photography.

Sequence was Robert Sowa's Ph.D. dissertation project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland.

 

"Sequence". Dir. Robert Sowa, photography Marcin Koszałka, music Ewa Trębacz. Action Animation - The Most Recent Films. National Audiovisual Institute NInA (Poland), 2008. DVD.

medium: film 35 mm, color 
film format: 1: 1.66 
sound format: Dolby SR

technique: mixed media, stop motion, painting, photography



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 
 

 


 

Festivals and Screenings

 

October 20 - 26, 2014 33rd Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala Sweden          
October 6 - 19, 2014 Be There! Corfu Animation Festival, Corfu, Greece
September - October, 2014 MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design), Budapest, Hungary
July 25 - August 3, 2014 Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF), Guanajuato, Mexico
July 22 - 27, 2014 18th Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival SICAF 2014, Seoul, Korea
February 20 - 23, 2014 Animac - 18th International Animated Film Festival, Lleida, Spain
November 28, 2013 International Film Market, Mexico City, Mexico
October 23 - 28, 2013 6th International Animated Film Festival, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
October 17 - 31, 2013 École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), Paris, France
August 14 - 18, 2013 "Anima Mundi" 21st International Animation Festival, São Paulo, Brasil
August 2 - 11, 2013 "Anima Mundi" 21st International Animation Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
July - August, 2013 Feldman Gallery at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA
June 27 - 30, 2013 6th International Animation Festival, Žilina, Slovakia
June 19 - 23, 2013 11th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival, Kecskemét, Hungary
March 6 - 10, 2013 43rd Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
November 14 - 18, 2012 "Animated Dream" Animation Film Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
November 12 - 18, 2012 "Cinanima" International Animated Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal
October 12 - 13, 2012 Blackrock Animation Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland
September 10 - 15, 2012 World Festival of Animated Film, Varna, Bulgaria
September 7 - October 5, 2012 Stoptrik International Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia
July 6 - 8, 2012 Euganea Film Festival, Padova, Italy
May 24 - 27, 2012 Tallinn Treff Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
May 3 - 5, 2012 "Anifilm", International Festival of Animated Film, Třeboň, Czech Republic
December 6, 2011 Czech and Polish Animators at the Moving Image Centre in Auckland, New Zealand
November 15 - 20, 2011 27th International Short Film Festival, Berlin
October 23 - 30, 2011 International Film Festival Molodist, Kyiv, Ukraine
September 23 - 30, 2011 "Message to Man" - a screening of animated films from Poland, Sainkt Petersburg, Russia
August 30 - 31, 2011 Polish Animation Days, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Beijing, China
July 14, 2011 Polish Animation Day at the Barbican Centre, London
April 12 - 17, 2011 International Short Films Festival "FilmFest", Dresden, Germany
December 8, 2010 Festival "Portraits of Composers" (Portrety Kompozytorów), Warsaw, Poland
December 2 - 9, 2010 IX Les sommets du Cinema, Nouveaux talents polonais, Montreal, Canada
October 16, 2010 Festiwal Teatralny Spotkania, Toruń, Poland
April 8 - 9, 2010 Polnisches Institut Leipzig, Germany
February 3 - 10, 2010 International Film Festival, Mumbai, India
November 25 - 29, 2009 Castelli Animati, Genzano di Roma, Italy
November 13 - 29, 2009 Music du Monde, Festival Sequence Court Metrages, Toulouse, France
October 24 - 30, 2009 International Animation Day 2009: Retrospectives of Polish Animation, Brazil, Bulgaria India, Japan, Korea, USA, Hungary
October 13, 2009 Lafabrika, Prague, Czech Republic
July 31 - August 2, 2009 International Animation Festival Fest Anca, Slovakia
July 18, 2009 Łańcut Castle, Poland
July 14 - 17, 2009 Animation Summer Days, Kraków, Poland
June 26, 2009 Night of Animated Film, Czersk Castle, Poland
June 2, 2009 Kino Pod Baranami, Kraków, Poland
May 9, 2009 Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
April 28 - May 3, 2009
Festival "Cinema on the Border" (Festiwal "Kino na Granicy"), Cieszyn, Poland
April 21 - 26, 2009 The 7th Hull International Short Film Festival, England
March 6, 2009 Galeria Entropia, Poznań, Poland
February 13, 2009 Centre for Contemporary Art A4 , Bratislava, Slovakia
November 14 - 21, 2008 15th International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima, Kraków, Poland 
Special Mention
November 14 - 22, 2008 Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB) L'Alternativa Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
October 11, 2008 Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
October 8 - 11, 2008 Balkanima - International Animated Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
September 25 - 28, 2008 Matita Film Festival, Italy
September 16 - 28, 2008 Festival de la Culture Polonaise au Luxembourg
August 19 - 24, 2008 23rd International Odense Film Festival, Odense, Denmark 
Jury Special Mention
August 6 - 16, 2008 61st Festival del Film LOCARNO, Switzerland
July 11 - 20, 2008 "Anima Mundi" Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, São Paolo, Brasil
June 17 - 21, 2008 27th Film Festival Młodzi i Film , Koszalin, Poland 
Critics Award 
June 9 - 13, 2008 36th Festival de Cine de Huesca, Huesca, Spain
May 30 - June 5, 2008 48th Kraków Film Festival, Kraków, Poland
May 16 - 23, 2008 Vienna Independent Shorts, Vienna, Austria
May 2 - 9, 2008 Banja Luka Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
April 25 - 27, 2008 5th International Animated Film Festival ReAnimacja, Łódź, Poland
April 18 - 27, 2008 16th Seattle Polish Film Festival, Seattle, USA
April 15, 2008 Meany Theatre, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
December 13 - 16, 2007 OFAFA (13th All-Polish Animated Film Festival), Kraków, Poland