Weeds / Plevel

Pola Kazak (MAUR film, The Film Academy of Miroslav Ondricek in Pisek)
2024, Czechia, 13'42''

Far, far away, endless fields overgrown with weeds stretch to infinity. A beautiful garden is hidden in the middle of them, and it is carefully looked after by the Gardener. Her endurance is put to the test when a severe storm breaks out and her garden is flooded with seeds of weeds.

Daleč, daleč stran se raztezajo neskončna polja, preraščena s plevelom. Sredi njih se skriva čudovit vrt, nad katerim skrbno bdi Vrtnarica. Njena vzdržljivost je na preizkušnji, ko se razbesni huda nevihta in njen vrt preplavi s semeni plevela.

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Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes 
Technique: oil painting on glass

Team

Script, Director, Art design, Animation: Pola Kazak
DoP: Jakub Lojda
Music: Sergey Cheremisinov
Sound design: Mirek Šmilauer (Polka)
Editing: Alisa Sheli
Voice: Zuzana Hykyšová-Petráňová
Colorgrading: Vojtech Štetka
VFX: Bohdan Buďárek, Petr Charvát / Tomáš Holub, Tomáš Hájek (HatoHoto)
Production: Marcela Vrátilová
Producers: Mária Môťovská, Jiří Pecinovský, Martin Vandas (MAUR film)

Pola Kazak

born 1986, Kursk, Russia. Since 2004, she studied audiovisual production at the Moscow University of Arts and Culture, where she focused on documentary production and photography. In 2010, she moved to the Czech Republic and began studying at the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek, first majoring in documentary production, but after the first year she switched to the animation studio. During her studies, she focused on cartoon, 2D and multiplane animation. At the same time, she worked as a graphic artist and draftsman. She defended her bachelor‘s degree with the short film Toro!, based on Pablo Picasso‘s line drawings illustrating bullfights. As an animator, she participated in several films where she applied her experience with multiplane – The Crossing (dir. Florence Miailhe, oil painting, 2021) or Kafka. In Love (dir. Zane Oborenko, sand animation, 2024). 

Filmography: Kafka. In Love (dir. Zane Oborenko, planned release in 2024), sand on glass, animator; Weeds (dir. Pola Kazak, 2024), painting on glass, director, animator; The Crossing (dir. Florence Miailhe, 2021), painting on glass, animator; Toro! (dir. Pola Kazak, 2015), ink on paper, director, animator. 

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