Screenings
Internetowa edycja 64. KFF
Joko
Poland, Czech Republic, Germany2024animated15'International Short CompetitionNational Competition
How much do you need to pay a man to make him do the job he considers humiliating? Joko, the eponymous character, at first refuses to carry VIPs upon his back. Eventually, blackmailed by his mother and ridiculed at work, he agrees to serve foreign delegates. The decision has disastrous consequences. In this grotesque, Roland Topor-like plasticine animation, full of absurd and black humour, Izabela Plucińska returns yet again to expose human weaknesses. This time, using 600 dolls and 200 kilograms of plasticine, she shows the mechanisms of manipulation and social hierarchy. The film is presented in the national and international competitions.
- directed by
- Izabela Plucińska
Animation film director. Born in Poland, she currently lives in Germany. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (in the field of Design) and Film Animation from the Cinematography Department of the Film School in Łódź, where she also earned her PhD in Animation. Her filmography includes "Jam Session" (2005) – a winner of the Silver Bear at the International Film Festival in Berlin, "Esterhazy" (2009), "Sexy Laundry" (2015) and "Portrait of Suzanne" (2019). At present, she is a lecturer at the Arts Academy in Szczecin and runs her own production company ClayTraces. She specialises in plasticine animation. "98 kg" was her first animation film.
- script
- Izabela Plucińska, Justyna Celeda
- animated by
- Martin Pertlíček, Izabela Plucińska, Karolina Gołębiowski
- music
- Aliaksandr Yasinski
- editing
- Nikodem Chabior
- production
- Grzegorz Wacławek, Piotr Szczepanowicz (Animoon sp. z o.o.), Paulina Ratajczak (Las Sztuki Foundation)
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