Tomek Popakul Retrospective + Q&A
- 120 mins
Animation director, musician , graphic designer, music video creator, Graduated Lodz Film School on direction animation and special effects. Paralelly studied there scriptwiritng for 1 year. His graduation movie “Ziegenort” was shown on many international festivals and gained many awards incl. main award fro animated movie on New Horizons festival in Wrocław, award for best animation on Cracow Film Festival, Grand Prix in Oberhausen, and award for best animation on Brooklyn film festival. He was on of 3 chosen participants for Animationa Artist in Residence Tokyo orgnised by Japan Image Council (JAPIC) where he created movie “Black” His movies were two times selected for festivals in Rotterdam and Sundance Film Festival. Movie “Acid Rain” so far gained 35 awards, was shown in around 90 festivals, got prestigeous nomiation for Annie Awards, was on long Oscar list. Popakul has on his account also video work “My Little Angel” shown in philharmony in Szczecin, video “Bushes in which our ancestors lived” made during art project in Belarus, and short animation “Dżennet” commissioned by Museum of Emigration in Gdynia. Created short hybrid animation “Moon” for HBO pandemic anthology “At Home.” As musican performs under nickname ASTMA.Founder of lablel Wysokie Pokrzywy. Host of EXOZENTRYKIME mix series in internet Radio Kapitał. Released albums and tracks in labels : Audile Snow, Pointless Geometry, Intruder Alert and Syntetyk, also creator of music videos and cover arts for them.
Program
Film: 60 minutes
Q&A: 60 minutes
Geoblocking: This program is available Worldwide
Audience: Mature
Moderated by Sean Buckelew
In this program
Ziegenort
Directed by Tomasz Popakul
In a seemingly idyllic village, a teenager has to struggle with the problems of growing up. His situation…
Black
Directed by Tomasz Popakul
A pair of astronauts are trapped on orbital space station because of nuclear war on the earth below.
Acid Rain
Directed by Tomasz Popakul
After running away from her depressing village in eastern Europe, a teenage girl meets a new friend under…