Piotr Dumała – set 1

An etude made on an 8 mm film (no soundtrack) during his studies at the Animated Film Lab of Professor Daniel Szczechura at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

18 outstanding animation directors from the USA, China, Switzerland and Poland present their artistic variations on the so-called 'academy leader'.

Anima is an original series by Jerzy Armata, comprising 36 episodes and realised by the company TOProduction from Kraków in 2000-2002 for TVP Polonia. It presents the work of leading Polish animators. The first episode focused on the work of Piotr Dumała, who is also the creator of the entire series' credits.

Animated sequence commissioned by Amnesty International.

A poetic impression of two lovers walking. A boy and a girl are running under the stars. Suddenly, a thunderstorm begins, trees are broken, and in the air, there floats a rain of silver needles transformed into hair.

An unusual interpretation of the short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a suggestive study of jealousy and hatred, stressed by the interesting painting technique and poignant score by Zygmunt Konieczny.

An etude made on an 8 mm film (no soundtrack) during his studies at the Animated Film Lab of Professor Daniel Szczechura at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

Pure nonsense and black humour in poetics of suspense - an original variation on Little Red Riding Hood.

Man is wolf to man. A dark story about fake wolves - men disguised as wolves actually - who are sooner or later discovered and eaten.

An original spot for MTV.

A camera which penetrates space stops at a planet. There, it finds tiny people resembling fairy-tale characters. But the associations are misleading. Their behaviour is malicious, hostile and cruel.

A sleeping man suddenly... disintegrates. Parts of his body live their independent lives. When an alarm clock rings in the morning, they return to his bed, but the man is surprised to find that one of his legs is gone, as it chose freedom and left the room.

An etude made during his studies at the Animated Film Lab of Professor Daniel Szczechura at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. A negative film animation with no soundtrack.

Disturbing atmosphere of a story about a man trapped in a room with no exit. Sophistication of the visual aspect and coherence of image and suggestive music by Przemysław Gintrowski.