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Blue

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Weronika Szyma
Panorama: Central and Eastern Europe 2023
Animated Film
Poland
2023
7 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English

The sea on whose shore Weronika Szyma has set her film is a dense, pulsating blue. The beach and the family who are staying there, meanwhile, are limited to delicate black and white line drawings. Their minimalism makes the blue stand out all the more enchantingly: Sometimes represented as a horizontal strip that promises freedom but also fuels insecurity. Sometimes sloshing diagonally across the screen, swallowing up the image completely for a brief moment and marking a caesura. And there are quite a number of caesuras, because the seven film minutes span the story of several generations.

At one point the father disappears and the mother and her almost grown-up daughter are left to fend for themselves. They learn to comprehend the loss, support each other, turn gestures of distance into gestures of affection. Until the confidence grows to start all over again. The only thing that does not change here is the blue of the sea.

Felix Mende

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Director
Weronika Szyma
Script
Weronika Szyma
Editor
Filip Dziuba
Producer
Piotr Furmankiewicz, Mateusz Michalak
Co-Producer
Weronika Szyma
Sound
Tomasz Sierpiński
Animation
Weronika Szyma