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Piekini

Directed by: Dominika Waclawiak
duration: 4 minutes

A lonely old man goes into his memory to search for a particular place in a dream he once had.

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We shot Piekni on 35mm and we could only get the camera for four days over a long weekend. Stop motion animation is very time consuming and we ended up shooting 20 hrs a day for those four days.

Bio - Dominika Waclawiak

Dominika Waclawiak, originally from Lodz, Poland, grew up throughout the United States and Europe. She received her degree in Architecture from Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Her film credits span through the Art Department and Visual Effects; most recently as a Lighting Technical Director on The Incredible Hulk, The Golden Compass, Evan Almighty, the Oscar-winning film Happy Feet , Superman Returns, and the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In her directorial debut, an experimental stopmotion animation short named "Piekni", she designed and created the macabre sinister world and the creature puppets that lived within it.