“You can draw anything and bring every idea and fantasy to life. The only limit is our imagination. This is how I make my films, and if you want, I can teach you the same,” says Mariusz Wilczyński.
As every year, we warmly invite young creators, artists, illustrators, and art students to join the Animation Group, which will be active during the ten-day audiovisual workshops at Film Spring Open. The workshops will be led by your favorite mentor, painter, set designer, and animated film creator – Mariusz Wilczyński.
Participants will have the opportunity to work on their projects in their chosen techniques and according to their own scripts, receiving feedback from the Master of Animation. You will have a unique opportunity to interact with a great artist and contribute to the extraordinary creative atmosphere of the group.Before the workshops begin, there will be an online scriptwriting consultation. During four sessions, participants will prepare the scripts for their films, which they will work on during Film Spring Open 2024. Please send your applications to: biuro@filmspringopen.eu.
Mariusz Wilczyński: Polish animation director, performer, painter, professor at the Film School in Łódź. He learned the art of animation himself and has been making his own animated films since 1996. He had retrospectives of his films at the Museum of Modern Art MoMA in New York (2007), at the International Forum in Tokyo (2014), at the National Museum in Warsaw (2018) and in other places. His full-length animated film entitled “Kill it and leave this town”, on which he had been working for 14 years, had its world premiere in February 2020, the of. Currently, the artist is working on a new full-length animated film under the working title “Come to my funeral in a red dress”, the premiere of which is planned for 2027.
In 2007, the New York Times called Mariusz Wilczyński “one of the most important contemporary creators of artistic animation.”
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