Puppet is a Human too 2014

IX International Festival of Puppet Theatres
and Movie Animations for Adults

 

Festival

Spectacles

  • Domov, Eros, Viera

    Domov, Eros, Viera
    Domov, Eros, Viera
    Domov, Eros, Viera

    Med a Prach, Slovakia

    libretto Andrej Kalinka, Ivan Martinka, Michal Mikuláš, Juraj Poliak starring Ivan Martinka, Miriam Kalinková, Michal Mikuláš, Adam Marec, Juraj Poliak, Andrej Kalinka music Andrej Kalinka puppets and masks Ivan Martinka stage design Juraj Poliak costumes Ivan Martinka, Markéta Plachá lights Michal Juhás director Andrej Kalinka, Ivan Martinka

    A stage performance by independent Slovak artists, creating under a collective name "Med A Prach". The transcendental story telling of love and faith using two-meter-tall puppets and three glass screens, which serve as the vessel for emotions. The spectacle has been staged on "Dotyky a spojenia" Festival among others.

    Friday 10.X, at 20:00
  • The Impossible Drama

    The Impossible Drama
    The Impossible Drama
    The Impossible Drama

    Mogilev Region's Puppet Theatre, Belarus

    The King's life is in danger – he might be killed by his future son-in-law, The Exemplary Knight. The astrologist tells him about the planned attack and tells the King that he will be safe until the name of assassin will be undisclosed. But Odalinda, the daughter of the king suddenly finds out the truth. A political grotesque by Belarusian artists is an imagination about what would have happened if the Communist International was established in the Middle Ages.

    Language of the spectacle: Belarusian

    Saturday 11.X, at 20:00
  • Audience of One

    Audience of One
    Audience of One
    Audience of One

    Nicola Unger, The Netherlands

    idea, video and animation Nicola Unger consulting Judith Schoneveld, Cecilia Vallejos, Paul Perry production Zeebelt Foundation

    A one-man show by the artist, whose shows always balance between visual arts and performance. This time the Dutch artist focuses on the role of the individual within the society and examines the correlation between individuality and community.

    Language of the spectacle: English

    Sunday 12.X, at 18:00 and 20:00
  • A Journey to the Moon

    Zebra
    Zebra
    A Journey to the Moon

    Meitel Raz, Israel

    direction, design and enactment Meitel Raz

    A 70-minute performance consisting of two short stories: "Zebra" and "A Journey to the Moon". The first one is the story of love and survival in incredible circumstances of life. The artist uses only a table, ten fingers and a zebra toy during the show. In the second part of the spectacle, Meitel Raz take the audience onto a journey with a Spanish traveler, Gonzales, who adores exploring new countries, however, unfortunately he gets lost on the open sea.

    Language of the spectacle: English

    Monday 13.X, at 17:30 i 20:00
  • Cupido es una Broma

    Cupido es una Broma
    Cupido es una Broma
    Cupido es una Broma

    David Zuazola and Scarlattine Teatro, Chile-Italy

    production ScarlattineTeatro – David Zuazola Puppet Company in collaboration with Marek Żurawski performers Anna Fascendini, David Zuazola music Marek Żurawski stage design and puppets David Zuazola, Anna Fascendini, Michele Losi lights Michele Losi costumes Stracci Sartoria Creativa

    A comedy showing the pains of the love-tormented Nul, who upon discovering the doer of his misery – the Cupid – decides to capture and destroy him. However, the hopes for ending his foul lot, turn out to be delusional.

    Tuesday 14.X, at 17:30 i 20:00
  • A Journey

    A Journey
    A Journey
    A Journey

    Puppets and People Theatre, Poland

    screenplay and direction Krzysztof Zemło painter Ewa Zemło actress Eliza Mieleszkiewicz music Jan Mlejnek

    A painter, a musician and an actor. Together they create a story the main theme of which is the passing… not only of time. The form oscillates between a vivid performance, a musical concerto and a theatre spectacle. The spectacle consists of a series of moving pictures, which are a play of a variety of lighting techniques. Each of them relates to the theme of the journey in a different way.

    Wednesday 15.X, at 20:00
  • Tra

    Tra
    Tra
    Tra

    The Forms of Light Studio, Poland

    screenplay, direction, stage design, figures and animation Tadeusz Wierzbicki music Tadeusz Wielecki collaboration regarding computer graphics Andrzej Grabowski collaboration Maria Gloria Gimeno Domenech

    The opening night of the spectacle by Tadeusz Wierzbicki entitled "Tra". This unique shadow theatre created by composing together the effects of illuminated, cut-out silhouettes imprinted on a cellophane foil, a double membrane. As equally important feature of the spectacle are the musical compositions of Tadeusz Wielecki.

    Thursday 16.X, at 18:00
  • Pulcinella Burattino Napoletano

    Pulcinella Burattino Napoletano
    Pulcinella Burattino Napoletano
    Pulcinella Burattino Napoletano

    Gaspare Nasuto, Italy

    Gaspare Nasuto is a Neapolitan master of the art of puppet craftsmanship and sculpturing. In his spectacle, the voice of the main character, Pulcinella, is created via a special musical instrument called Pivetta hidden in the artist's mouth.

    The artist was granted the Audience Award during Puppet is a Human too Festival in 2013

    Thursday 16.X, at 20:00
  • Options of life according to professor Leszek Kołakowski

    Deborah and the Israelis (Jael)
    Maciej Dużyński starring in Rachab spectacle
    Ruth

    The Impossible Theatre Union, Poland

    "Options of life according to professor Leszek Kołakowski" is a performance consisting of five quasi–lectures by the recently deceased philosopher. They are brief, apt deductions crowned with unexpected commentary, accompanied by musical pieces performed on the piano.

    Not taking part in the contest

    Saturday 11.X, at 17:00
  • The Second Room

    The Second Room
    The Second Room
    The Second Room

    The Impossible Theatre Union, Poland

    In the "Second Room" the artists combine a widely understood art of photography with the language of theatre. The spectacle takes place on two levels, where the main role is played by black-and-white pictures depicting usual, mundane everyday life in a poetic, romantic interpretation.

    Not taking part in the contest

    Friday 17.X, at 18:00
  • Toporland

    Toporland
    Toporland
    Toporland

    The Impossible Theatre Union, Poland

    A vivid, wordless suite inspired by the works of Roland Topor and Johann Sebastian Bach.

    The spectacle was awarded with Złoty OFFeusz on "Malta" International Festival in Poznań, grand prizes during Łódzkie Spotkania Teatralne and on International Puppet Theatre for Adults Festival PIERROT.

    Not taking part in the contest

    Friday 17.X, at 20:00

Animated films

  • Animator 2014 - 1st block

    The screening of movies from the 7th International Animated Film Festival "Animator" – Poznań, 2014

    • Hipopotamy (12.29 min) Piotr Dumała - Naked women and children are paddling in the river. They are observed by an unseen group of many. Their meeting turns assumes a dramatic track inspired by the events occurring in the life of a hippopotamus. The Special Award named after Wojciech Juszczak.
    • Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (26 min) Quay Brothers - The movie realized in a masterful way using the stop motion technique of animating the puppets. The spectacle is based on the writings of the Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández, the father of the magical realism. Awarded with the Złoty Pegaz/Grand Prix "for a consequent development of the language, of which dream-like, misty forms constitute a legible and general message and for using music in building the undying tension during each second of the laborious and dreamy narration".

    Hipopotamy
    Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H.
    Wednesday 15.X, at 18:00 in Theatre Institute
    Wednesday 15.X, at 18:00 in A.D.A. Puławska
  • Animator 2014 - 2nd block

    The screening of movies from the 7th International Animated Film Festival "Animator" – Poznań, 2014

    • Symphony No. 42 (10 min) Réka Bucsi - Shows a subjective world presented in 47 scenes using an unconventional narration. Small events, woven with association, expressing an irrational connection with what surrounds us. Surreal situations are based on the interaction of man with nature. Awarded with Silver Pegasus.
    • É IN MOTION NO.2 (12 min) Sumito Sakakibara - The film shows and evokes emotions by a series of pictures hidden within the memories of the artist, drifting between the word and silence. Awarded with Bronze Pegasus.
    • Obvious things (10 min) Piotr Bosacki - The film tells us about the construction of the world, which, through making allusion and paraphrasing refers to the works of literature and scientific concepts. Each of the objects is a small sculptural installation.
    • Łaźnia (4 min) Tomek Ducki - Jean-Marca Petsasa Award for "thriftiness and cleanness in composing and arranging the sound effects with the music".
    • Padre (11.50 min) Santiago "Bou" Grasso - A woman nurses a severely ill person, a father and a soldier in one body. The Argentinean dictatorship comes to an end but this "child of the military" is lost to the world. Audience Award.
    Symphony No. 42
    É IN MOTION NO.2
    Łaźnia
    Padre
    Wednesday 15.X, at 18:45 in A.D.A. Puławska
  • Animator 2014 - 3nd block

    Screening of the movies awarded during the 7th International Animated Film Festival "Animator" in Poznań, 2014

    Animowany film pełnometrażowy

    • Rocks in my pockets (93 min) Signe Baumane - It is a personal story of the authoress about women in her family, about herself and about a fight with madness. The film is full of visual metaphors, surreal images and a peculiar sense of humor. Awarded in the category of full-length films.

    Rocks in my pockets
    Tuesday 14.X, at 18:00 in A.D.A. Puławska
  • Panufnik's Year

    The screening of movies by Mischa Giancovich, directed to suit the music composed by the children of Andrzej Panufnik

    Roxanna Panufnik, followed into her father's footsteps – Andrzej Panufnik amd is one of the most recognized modern composers of the young generation. Music and animation is taken care of by her brother – Jem Panufnik.

    • Teleparp (5.07 min) - Teleparp is a vivid celebration of the soul and the magic of the mechanics reminding us of the bygone era, in which the good old melodies were tapped out with a shoe. The technologies used to capture that sound created the aura of mysticism and amazement as well. Illustrated by Mischa Giancovich and Jem Panufnik.
    • Be-Bop 2 Hip-Hop (1.20 min) - An Internet campaign advertising Jem Stone"s EP album entitled "Perpetual Lotion". Part one. Music - Jem Panufnik, artwork - Mischa Giancovich.
    • Itch The Fuffle (3.30 min) - It is like an itching spot, which you just cannot resist to scratch, Fuffle irritates that exact spot… until you give in. Music - Jem Panufnik (clarinet parts performer by Ben Castle).
    • Ninth Wave (2.30 min) - Theatrical study of personality.
    • Grand Fandango (1.28 min) - An Internet campaign advertising Jem Stone"s EP album entitled "Perpetual Lotion". Part two. Music - Jem Panufnik, artwork - Mischa Giancovich.
    Teleparp
    Be-Bop 2 Hip-Hop
    Itch The Fuffle
    Grand Fandango
    Sunday 12.X, at 19:00 in Theatre Institute
    Thursday 16.X, at 18:00 in A.D.A. Puławska
  • Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Tel Aviv

    Graduate projects created in the Visual Communication Department in the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design

    • Underwater Tamar Akavia - Is a short, surreal animation about coping stress issues. The heroin dwells in an unreal world, a void between water and air. The feelings of suffocation and anguish, which trouble her, seem not to have any effect on the people surrounding her. She tries to escape, however, the water catches up, surrounding her. The solution can be found only if she decides to dive deeper.
    • Verns Idan Zakai - The mentor of the project: Oren Green.
    • Take Away Hezi Jacob - Is a short animation illustrating the fact that food transportation produces a significant amount of pollution. The movie shows that the choices clients make, as well as the habit of spending a minimal amount of time on acquiring food, is not without consequences.
    • Parental Child Nadav Mizrahi - Parental Child focuses on the talented and sensitive child entering life. Despite its young age, it manages to identify the needs of the parents. It lets go of his innocent childhood, his real "me" and fabricates, a new, "artificial I".
    • Habitus Timor Barshtman - Personal disarray steaming from the last internal transformation of the character, which is molded but the surroundings to attain cusses and survival. Film based on the Habitus Theory.
    Underwater
    Verns
    Take Away
    Parental Child
    Habitus
    Monday 13.X, at 18:30 in Theatre Institute
    Thursday 16.X, at 18:45 in A.D.A. Puławska
  • StopTrik – The International Film Festival

    Stop motion films chosen from the group of candidates fighting for the Grand Prix of the 4th International Film Festival StopTrik

    The most recognizable technique of stop motion is a puppet film, due to the fact that this genre of animation, functions somewhat suspended between cinematography and theatre. The most vivid features being its expressiveness and the tendency to present a fairytale-like imaging.

    • Le Meat (2.16 min) Wolfgang Matzl - The phone rings. "Your food is ready, Sir".
    • Never Stop Cycling (3.31 min) Colin Lepper - To keep up the daily routine, a certain creature must set off on a journey into an unknown world.
    • Simulacra (8.40 min) Ivana Bošnajk, Thomas Johnson - In the corridor of illusion, from behind the mirror, Simulacrum tried to work out if he is watching his own self or just a hidden part of his personality.
    • Domestic Appliances (3 min) Lewis Firth Bolton - The film touches on the absurd significance, which we attribute to objects making our lives much easier, while we often disregard serious problems other encounter.
    • My Stuffed Granny (10 min) Effie Pappa - Small Sophia loves her grumpy grandmother, despite her everlasting hunger and the fact that the granny devours everything which the family manages to buy. Her retirement is keeping Sophia and her father on the brink of death. What are they prepared to do when the grandmother is gone?
    • Nascent (4.20 min) Jerrold Chong - Nas-cent is the beginning of existence and growth. An incredible pair of twins has to learn and adjust to a new, strange relation. A decision has to be made, as well, which might change their faith forever.

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    • Canis (16.45 min) Marc Riba, Ana Solans - Teo remains in solitude within a house under eternal siege by a pack of hungry hounds.
    • The Devil Went Down to a Holy Land (3.33 min) Ricardo Werdesheim - A fresh look on the classical relation of the stop motion technique and heavy metal, full of demons, explosions, candy and teddy bears.
    • Sync (4.07 min) Beny Gross - Edmond lives in the sink, Agatha in the pipes. Not knowing about that, they have an influence on each other. The film focuses on the meeting of two people living in a correlative relation, whilst having a fundamentally different perception of life.
    • The Oldest Stone (10 min) Mathieu Girard - An ominous tale gravitating towards the themes of possessiveness and high productivity.
    • Imperium Vacui (5.40 min) Massimo Ottoni, Linda Kelvink - A man fighting against a worldwide regime, which long gone lost any trances of humanity.
    Le Meat
    Never Stop Cycling
    Simulacra
    Domestic Appliances
    My Stuffed Granny

    Nascent
    Canis
    The Devil Went Down to a Holy Land
    Sync
    The Oldest Stone
    Imperium Vacui
    Tuesday 14.X, at 19:30 in Theatre Institute
    Monday 13.X, at 18:00 in A.D.A. Puławska

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Exhibitions

  • Eva Čárska

    Eva Čárska

    Director of the Bibiana, International House of Art for Children in Bratislava. Author of screenplays, dramas and a director in one person. Curator of over two hundred interactive exhibitions. Artistic manager of "Gramy dla Was" ("We play for you") Festival, which has been taking place in the International House for over ten years.

  • Sketches from the spectacles

    Sketches from the spectacles
    Sketches from the spectacles
    Sketches from the spectacles

    Joanna Bielińska

    "One of the trends of my artistic doings is sketching. During one concerto, a theatre spectacle or a meeting, I do a series of pencil, chalk or pen drawn sketches. They are the essence of the present moment"s feelings. Among many works, only a few are the "right ones". The chosen ones come into being while fully concentrated, usually being the last, the outcome of a series of intermediate pictures which lead to the final result. The ones convey an emotional load, of my concentration, as well as, of the artists being depicted. This is the reason why I do "live sketches"; to absorb into myself and pour onto my drawings the authenticity of existence. The experiences of the person at hand and the aura created by the spectacle or concert."

    - Joanna Bielińska

  • Once Upon A Time

    Once Upon A Time
    Once Upon A Time
    Miroslav Duša

    Eva Čárska and Miroslav Duša

    An exhibition of the Slovakian puppeteering art and its history. The author and the dramatic notion of the exhibition itself, dwells within the frames of a modern fairytale. It revolves partially between an idealized image of future, the present state of reality and the inspirations brought by the future.
    That is why, the dialog between the author and the people visiting the exhibition talks about the roots of, the personality and meaning or the perspectives which are brought by such a specific cultural phenomenon as the puppet theatre.
    About 150 year old marionettes from private collection of Anton Anderle and rustic ceremonial bar puppets originating in the pagan times, as well as, the collections of the Slovak National Museum.

  • The Theatre of PHOTOgraphy

    The Theatre of PHOTOgraphy
    The Theatre of PHOTOgraphy
    The Theatre of PHOTOgraphy

    Przemek Wiśniewski

    The newest works of Przemek Wiśniewski envisage a theatre which is and at the same time does not exist. It creates a dynamic, constantly developing form, giving the impression of artistic events captured while happening. Due to the virtual means used and the form of relating, there occurs a dual possibility of experiencing theatre. On the none hand, you can just connect the virtual impressions and communing with the theatre, steaming form the direct experiences of visiting theatre. On the other hand, a change of relation to what seems already familiar might be more plain. This, however, does not have to have a direct impact on one's impressions and decisions.

Jury

  • Krystyna Żuchowska

    Krystyna Żuchowska

    Pupeteer. For a half of a century a spokesman and a spiritus movens of puppetry for adults. In early 70s a professor of SATL (Wroclaw), a cooperator in making performances of Wroclaw Puppet Theatre, also an actress of Warsaw Theatres LALKA and Fraszka, a cooperator with TV. Translations: Jacinto Benavente, Alfred Jarry, Lemercier de Neuville. Adaptations: anonim – Rzecz o Alkasynie i Nikolecie, Stanislaw Wyspiański The wedding, Leszek Kołakowski The key to Heaven). A member of the Center of International Puppet Artists Union UNIMA.

  • Anna Konstantinowa

    Anna Konstantinowa

    Theatrologist, theatrical critic, krytyk teatralny, Ph.D. in knowledge of the culture.

    Authoress of articles about puppet and arts theatre. She contributes with theatrical festivals in Russia, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. She lives in Petersburg.

  • Simon Hart

    Simon Hart

    Simon has for the past thirty years enjoyed a busy, varied and successful career in the arts.

    He appeared as a soloist with many choirs, worked as a singing teacher and also trained as an actor, appearing in many leading roles in many spectacles, as well as TV shows. Simon also directed productions with his own theatre companies, as well as working as a musical director.

  • Stanislav Dubkov

    Stanislav Dubkov

    Director, president of Omsk State puppet, actor and mask theatre "Arlekin" and the International festival of puppet theatres, board member of the Russian department of UNIMA.

  • Hans Hartvich-Madsen

    Hans Hartvich-Madsen

    Member and leader of Regionalt Netværk, president of Danish UNIMA, Jury member in professional puppetry festivals.

    Head of the puppet and animation theatre department and puppetry department of the Danish Development Centre For Performing Arts Scenekunstens Udviklingscenter Odsherred Theaterschool subsidized by the Danish Ministry of Culture. Leader and founder of Thy Teater. Lecturer in First Hand Theatre.

Awards

  • The prize pool in 2014 is 20 000 zł

    Benefactors:
    Capital City of Warsaw Municipal Office
    The Impossible Theatre Union
    President of the Impossible Theatre Union

    1. For "Expression of a Life by the Puppet" (for the best actor/actress)
    2. For "Expression of a Theater by the Puppet" (for creativity)
    3. Grand Prix of "Expression of a Theater by the Puppet" (for the best spectacle of the festival)

    Additional awards:

    The Jury consisting of Students of the Theatre Academy in Białystok "A Hundred for the Point" Award
    The Audience Prize "Blind Invitation" for a Band for the Next Festival Edition
    Impossible Theatre Union's President "Wonderful moment of animation" prize in the form of a sculpture,
    made of bronze - Noemi by Ewald Kornek (replica from the "Options of life according to professor Leszek Kołakowski")
    An Honorary Diploma of the Polish Puppeteer Centre POLUNIMA