New book: Piotr Dumała in conversation with Joanna Tadzik

Meeting with Piotr Dumała will be led by Bronek Nowicek

New book: Piotr Dumała in conversation with Joanna Tadzik, PWSFTvit Publishing House

A story about the artistic path and search for inspiration of the creator of award-winning animated and feature films. It is a conversation about the importance of life's fascinations and experiences, about “extracting the essence” of content and form in each artistic challenge undertaken — not only in the films themselves — but also in sculpture, painting, comics, first sketches or storyboards.

When Franz Kafka, Henri Michaux, Eleonora Carrington, and Little Red Riding Hood dreamed collectively with the Lumière brothers, Dumal slipped out of their united selves. And although he was greeted dreamily, somehow he broke through (with a stylus? with a dry needle?) to wake up. For the stranger, he put on shoes, put on a sweater, and humanly pressed glasses on his nose. But let's not get carried away! Piotr Dumała is a wonderful Anomaly, Singularity, Aberration, who in a conversation with Joanna Tadzik tries to bring her own otherness to earth. And I, reading this biographical camouflage, succumb to the story and almost begin to believe that Peter's imagination comes from this world, and he himself, like other great magicians, was once a boy.

Bronk Nowicka

Piotr Dumała - (born 9 July 1956 in Warsaw) is one of the most important and most successful Polish directors of animated and feature films, as well as a screenwriter, art professor, writer, cartoonist and graphic artist. He is recognized as a world master of artistic animation, known for creating a unique, author's technique called “plaster animation”. In 1982 he graduated from the Faculty of Art Conservation of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (speciality: stone sculpture conservation), and studied in the animation film studio of Prof. Daniel Szczechura. As an educator, he holds the title of professor of the habilitation doctor. He teaches at the State Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (Lodz Film School). He taught at Harvard University in Cambridge and Konstfack College in Eksjö (Sweden). Piotr Dumała's rich oeuvre includes both groundbreaking animations and feature-length feature films. Dumała also works as a writer and illustrator. For his work he has received dozens of prestigious awards at festivals such as Krakow, Oberhausen, Zagreb, Ottawa and Espinho, as well as a Special Prize at the Etiuda&Anima festival. He is also a laureate of, among others, the Prize of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Joanna Tadzik — Vice-President of the Body Memory Foundation, literature teacher, social activist and columnist, lover of film art.

Bronka Nowicka — interdisciplinary artist, writer, Ph.D. in Fine Arts, lecturer at the Film School in Lodz, member of the Board of the International Triennial of Graphic Arts in Krakow. Author and editor of books: Nakarmić kamień, Kodeks Mistaklonych, Liteatura, Intro-versions, Mind training, Differences in the approach to film education, Disorder, territories, layout, Understanding the heroine. She has published in Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tripwire, Guest, LIT Magazine, Seedings, Paraphrasis, The Creative Process, Past Simple, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Cinnamon Review of Short Fiction, Europe 28, Poetry Wales, Lyrikline, Fixpoetry, Catastrophes, Amprente, Lo Spazio Letterario, Sign, Writing, Cultural Enclosure, Postscript Visions, Crucible of Culture. Winner of the New Voices from Europe project implemented by Literature Across Frontiers and the European Platform for Literary Exchange, Nike Literary Award, Golden Poetry Center, Creative Scholarship of the City of Krakow in the field of literature.