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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 21:00
Written by:
Barbara Rupik
Editing:
Barbara Rupik
Sound:
Barbara Rupik
Music:
Maurycy Raczyński
Animation:
Barbara Rupik
Starting from a leitmotif present in medieval religious paintings, BARBARA RUPIK’s picturesque animation shows the journey of a soul after the death of its host, as it traverses a hellish purgatory that lies at the intersection between Hieronymous Bosch and Edvard Munch. Highly textured and visceral, The Little Soul begs the question: are death and decay truly the final endpoint of everything, or does a whole new universe lie beyond them? And if so, how is that universe like, and what are its rules? (Flavia Dima, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
BARBARA RUPIK (b. 1992) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Currently she is studying Animated Film and Special Effects at the Polish National Film School in Lodz.
Contact:
Krzysztof Brzezowski
Festivals, awards:
Cannes Cinéfondation 2019 / Clermont-Ferrand 2020 / Animated Shorts Grand Jury Award, CreativeFuture Innovation Award - Slamdance 2020 / Sarajevo Film Festival 2019 / Warsaw Film Festival 2019 / Annecy 2019 / Poitiers 2019 / Melbourne 2019 / OFF - Odense International Film Festival 2020/ Vilnius 2020 / Florida Film Festival 2019 / CINANIMA Portugal 2019 / Premiers Plans Film Festival 2020 / Special Jury Award - Kiev „Molodist” Film Festival 2020
“The Little Soul is some kind of an animated assemblage: combining object, painting, and clay animation. The world it presents brings to mind a living painting, decaying in its own matter. The main inspiration for the plot was a medieval painting by Giovanni Canavesio which the death by suicide of Judas Iscariot. In it, we see a little humanlike creature being extracted from a hanging body by a demon, through a big gash in the stomach. Medieval religious art depicts the miniature being as a soul. This bodily image of the soul follows the popular beliefs of the Middle Ages.” (BARBARA RUPIK)