Marta Pajek (Poland, 1982) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where she lives and works. She specialised in animated film in the class of Jerzy Kucia and as part of an exchange programme also studied at Turku Arts Academy under Priit Pärn. Her short films include After Apples, Nextdoor and Sleepincord.
Kortfilm.be is een onafhankelijk online magazine dat zich uitsluitend richt op korte films, mogelijk gemaakt door het harde werk van een kleine vrijwillige redactie.
Door een film te huren uit het video on demand aanbod of u te abonneren, steunt u niet alleen ons werk maar ook dat van de betrokken filmmakers: alle inkomsten vloeien terug naar de rechthebbenden en worden geïnvesteerd in de verdere verspreiding en het contextualiseren van de films.
Alle films in de collectie zijn wereldwijd beschikbaar met Engelse ondertiteling. Voor slechts €25/jaar krijgt u onbeperkte toegang tot de volledige catalogus die maandelijks wordt aangevuld.
Kortfilm.be is an independent online magazine focusing solely on short films, made possible by the hard work of a small editorial group of volunteers.
By renting a film from our video-on-demand offer or subscribing to the platform, you support our work and the filmmakers involved. All revenues flow back to the rights holders and are invested in the further distribution and contextualisation of the films.
All films in the collection are available worldwide with English subtitles. For only €25/year, you can subscribe to the entire catalogue, which is updated monthly.
Kortfilm.be is een onafhankelijk online magazine dat zich uitsluitend richt op korte films, mogelijk gemaakt door het harde werk van een kleine vrijwillige redactie.
Door een film te huren uit het video on demand aanbod of u te abonneren, steunt u niet alleen ons werk maar ook dat van de betrokken filmmakers: alle inkomsten vloeien terug naar de rechthebbenden en worden geïnvesteerd in de verdere verspreiding en het contextualiseren van de films.
Alle films in de collectie zijn wereldwijd beschikbaar met Engelse ondertiteling. Voor slechts €25/jaar krijgt u onbeperkte toegang tot de volledige catalogus die maandelijks wordt aangevuld.
Kortfilm.be is an independent online magazine focusing solely on short films, made possible by the hard work of a small editorial group of volunteers.
By renting a film from our video-on-demand offer or subscribing to the platform, you support our work and the filmmakers involved. All revenues flow back to the rights holders and are invested in the further distribution and contextualisation of the films.
All films in the collection are available worldwide with English subtitles. For only €25/year, you can subscribe to the entire catalogue, which is updated monthly.
A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up only to discover that her home has unusual features—it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions, and covered with patterns. The film is the second in the triptych Impossible Figures and Other Stories. Each of the parts tells a story of aiming for perfection in a reality full of traps.
“Everything about this film is poetry. Even the synopsis reads like a poem. Nothing in this film is told in a classical narrative. Edits between pictures are fluid, situations unfold with a floating camera, and we ask ourselves: What is this? Why is this happening? Where is the heroine going? Who are those dancers? What’s with the egg? Great art is not explanatory; it leaves a mystery to be grasped by every viewer on their own. This is animation art at its strongest.” — Daniel Šuljić
This film was chosen by filmmaker and musician Daniel Šuljić, in response to Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels’ Oh Willy.... Šuljić, born in Zagreb, studied painting and animation at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and currently lives and works in both cities. Šuljić’s films earned several international awards. For several years, Šuljić lectured classical animation in Linz and was named honorary professor at Jilin College of the Arts Animation School in Changchun, China. He also teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 2011, Šuljić has been the artistic director of Animafest Zagreb.
A gentle, middle-aged man returns to the nudist colony he grew up in to visit his elderly mother. Her sudden death leaves Willy in a state of sadness. He soon finds himself lost in the midst of a savage wilderness, trying to find comfort.
