Imagining the Authors: Tal Kantor, Piotr Chmielewski, Urszula Domańska

Friday, 29. 9. 2023 at 14.00 / Vetrinj mansion, big hall

The mentors of WORKSHOT 2.0: CENSORSHIP will reveal their approaches to animation filmmaking, views on values, emotions, and thrills they’re pursuing in their art and craft. The questions will be asked about what they find inspirational, shocking, challenging, and alluring in the realms of arts and society. Their own films will serve as points of departure for discussion.

---

Tal Kantor

is an award-winning independent animation filmmaker & visual artist. Graduated with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, where she currently lectures at the Screen-Based Arts Department. Director of the films such as Letter to a Pig (2022), In Other Words (2016), Under the Small Sun (2015, co-dir. Shahar Davis).

Piotr Chmielewski

is an stop-motion animation autodidact who dedicated his knowledge and skills to raise social issues with visual materials. He does campaign animations for various non-governmental organizations and he made his first steps as an art-house film director by directing the well-received film Crab (2022).

Urszula Domańska

is a stop-motion animator who graduated from Lodz Film School with a degree in animation and special effects. She has directed several films, including the traditional cut-out animation The Windows of That House (2019). Urszula is passionate about working with different animation techniques, including puppet animation, which is popular in Polish television shows such as The Treflik Family.