Don’t Lose Your Head
Nie trać głowy · dir. Karolina Specht
Poland 2015, 5’
21 October, 14:00 · Od Nowa – large hall
Don’t Lose Your Head — a short drawn and computer 2D animation movie. This is a visual story about how easy it is to lose your head. White head rolls slowly to the center of a black screen. A single event triggers a series of successive incidents. The visual side of the film grows as the action progresses.
| Director: | Karolina Specht |
| Screenplay: | Karolina Specht |
| Cinematography: | Karolina Specht |
| Editing: | Karolina Specht |
| Production: | Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa Telewizyjna i Teatralna (Łódź) |
| Awards: | Europejska nagroda filmowa na Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, The United Kingdom, 2016; konkurs główny Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Francja 2015; konkurs Animateka International Animation Festival, Słowenia, 2015; konkurs Northwest Animation Festival 2016, USA; konkurs Melbourne International Animation Festival 2016, Australia; konkurs T-Mobile Nowe Horyzonty IFF, 2016 |
Karolina Specht was born in 1991, in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She is a graduate of the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Bydgoszcz. Currently, she is a student of the Faculty of Animated Movie and Special Effects at The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. She is an animator and graphic designer.
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