Fallen Art
| Fallen Art | |
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 Original poster | |
| Directed by | Tomasz Bagiński |
| Written by | Tomasz Bagiński |
| Produced by | Jarek Sawko Piotr Sikora Tomasz Bagiński |
| Starring | Arkadiusz Jakubik Marcin Kudelka Dariusz Toczek |
| Music by | Fanfare Ciocărlia |
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Running time | 6 minutes |
| Country | Poland |
| Language | Polish |
Fallen Art (Polish Sztuka spadania, lit. The Art of Falling) is a six-minute, animated short film written and directed by Tomasz Bagiński. It features Romanian band Fanfare Ciocărlia's song "Asfalt Tango." The film was produced and created by Platige Image, a VFX company. Fallen Art received the Jury Honors at the SIGGRAPH 2005 Computer Animation Festival,[1] and in 2006, it received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.[2]
Summary
The short opens on a platoon of soldiers awaiting their sergeant's instructions at the top of a ramshackle tower. When the order is given from below, he calls up a single soldier, proudly awards him a medal, and then pushes him off the edge to fall in a particular position onto an asphalt square. A photograph of the corpse is then brought to the leader of the operation; a retired musician, revealed to be commissioning the macabre photographs as individual frames of a deranged stop-motion project depicting a soldier dancing to one of his songs. He runs the unfinished animation in front of an empty theatre, tearfully reliving his glory days before sobering up and giving the go-ahead for the next "frame" to be produced.
References
- ↑ Zahed, Ryan (April 26, 2005). "SIGGRAPH 2005 Winners Named". Animation Magazine. Retrieved May 17, 2015.
- ↑ "Bafta 2006: The winners". BBC News. 19 February 2006. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
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