StopTrik International Film Festival: Programme of Events & Screenings
Skwigly
After the success of the Slovenian edition of StopTrik, it’s time for the Polish chapter. From 8-10th October, for the fourth time in Łódź, we invite you to the Polish edition of the StopTrik International Film Festival – the oldest in Europe (held continuously since 2011); an initiative promoting classic stop motion techniques (stop-motion) in animation.
The StopTrik 2019 competition programs will present what is aesthetically, technically and intellectually most interesting in contemporary international stop motion production.
While the “International Stop Motion Competition” presents the creators’ traditional approach to puppets, clay, sand animation or cutouts, the “Borderland Competition” offers viewers a selection of the most interesting experimental films in which the language of stop motion animation is only part of the means of expression used, because these films combine classic animation with digital techniques, live-action, found footage, etc.
As every year, the StopTrik audience and the 3-person Student Jury will decide about the winners of the competitions. In the non-competitive sections we will see:
- Panorama – an international review of intriguing stop motion films, whose creators test innovative technical and narrative solutions
- Don’t Stop Your Emotion – is a review of women stop motion animations realized in the WJTeam / Likaon studio in Lodz
- To be a woman, or a replica of the Lublin Film Festival 2018 – a program of short actor films from Hungary, Russia and Slovakia, which tell about the lives and problems of women from Central and Eastern Europe (with the introduction by Maciej Misztal, director of Lublin Film Festival).
Thanks to the cooperation with the Animakom Festival from Bilbao, we will also see Spanish experimental films under the slogan ELLAS MUEVEN – SHE MOVES Latin American Feminism in Stop Motion Animation as well as the comics exhibition of Ana Penyas and Ana Galvañ works.
Especially for the younger audience, we will present feature full-length claymation animation from the Aardman Studio – Nick Park’s “Early Man”. Those interested in the history of animated film and the creative paths of pioneers of stop motion animation will become familiar with the documentary film “Lotte Reiniger – Dance of the Shadows”, will discovering the 50 years of animation from Azerbaijan (with the introduction by Rashid Aghamaliyev, the director of ANIMAFILM Baku International Animation Festival), and will also take part in the promotion of the collective monograph “Propaganda, Ideology, Animation. Twisted Dreams of History ”, whose authors discuss the political inclinations of the 20th and 21st century animated films.
As every year, filmmakers present at the Festival will take part in the so-called “TrikShow“, during which they will reveal the secrets of working on their films. This year during TrikShow we will talk not only about the movies from the official selection but also about two work-in-progress (Zbigniew Kotecki will introduce A Great Worry, and Piotr Chmielewski will talk about “Crab”), Agnieszka Kowalewska (Momakin) will talk about the winning projects of Animarkt Stop Motion Forum, and Sofya Nabok about the exhibition “Art of Creating Puppets”.