RETROSPECTIONS OF JURY- Piotr Dumała I
LYKANTROPIA / 1981 / 5’
Fake wolves, or rather people in wolf’s clothing, are sooner or later unmasked and devoured.
LITTLE BLACK RIDING HOOD / 1983 / 5’
A little boy goes out from a cottage. He puts on a hood and holds a little basket and enters the woods. On his way,
he eats and destroys flowers. Having met a huge wolf, he eats him as well. A hunter approaches the boy as he is
FLOATING HAIR / 1984 / 8’
An impression about a pair of lovers’ walk and the strange natural phenomena accompanying it. A boy and a girl
run under a starry sky. Suddenly a storm breaks out. The trees crack and a shower of silver needles is transformed
into floating hairs.
THE NERVOUS LIFE OF THE COSMOS / 1986 / 4’
A horror film tinged with black humor. A strange world somewhere in the Cosmos is inhabited by characters from
terrifying fairy tales.
WALLS / 1987 / 8’
A disturbing story about a man trapped in a room without a way out. His eyes closely observe the walls, his ears
listen for every whisper, and the man moves searching for freedom.
FREEDOM OF A LEG / 1988 / 10’
During a moonlit night a sleeping man breaks into pieces and parts of his body begin their own life. In the
morning, they come back to a bed hearing the alarm clock. The surprised man notices, however, the absence
of his leg, which has left the room and chosen freedom. Running the streets, the leg is chased by the crowd
of legless men…
FRANZ KAFKA / 1991 / 17’
This docu-fantasy film was inspired by diaries, novels and letters by Kafka. It is an attempt to show Kafka’s
psychological life, his creative process, and a world seen from the perspective of his childhood, adolescence, and
sexual initiation.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT / 2000 / 30’
A film based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel. A young man living in the attic of an old tenement house murders two
old women. He comes back to his small room and suffers from hallucinatory fears and remorse. He circles around
the scene of the crime…
