Piotr Dumała is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 film director and animator. His animation technique is original and fascinating, among the most interesting of the last 30 years. While training to be a sculptor, he discovered that scratching images into painted plaster could be a beautiful way to create animations. This is only one technique of a method called destructive animation, where one image is erased (in this case, painted over) and re-drawn to create the next frame in the sequence. William Kentridge is another artist who works in this destructive way. Dumala's main themes, and the way to show them, recall ostensibly the world of writer Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...

. His film, Crime and Punishment, was included in the Animation Show of Shows

Animation show of shows

The Animation Show of Shows is a traveling selection of the year's best animated short films, curated and presented by Acme Filmworks founder, Ron Diamond. It began in 1998 with the aim of showing the most original, funny, intelligent short animated films from all over the world and presenting them...

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Filmography

• 1981 Lykantropia
• 1983 Czarny kapturek
• 1984 Latajace Wlosy
• 1985 A Gentle Spirit (Lagodna)
• 1987 Academy Leader Variations (segment)
• 1987 Nerwowe zycie kosmosu
• 1988 Walls (Sciany )
• 1989 Wolnosc nogi
• 1992 Franz Kafka
• 2000 Crime and Punishment (Zbrodnia i kara)
• 2009 The Forest (Las)

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