Marta Pajek
ANIMATION FILMMAKER | DIRECTOR & SCRIPTWRITER
Author’s animated short films
IMPOSSIBLE FIGURES AND OTHER STORIES I | animated short film, 2021
An ominous ticking sound triggers an explosion. Wandering deserted city streets, an elegant elderly woman recalls what was and what could have been. The final film (and first part) of Marta Pajek’s acclaimed trilogy, Impossible Figures and other stories I is a mysterious and haunting portrait of personal and societal self-destruction.
III | animated short film, 2018
A sudden meeting of a Man and a Woman begins a hypnotic act – a game of pleasure and discomfort.
IMPOSSIBLE FIGURES AND OTHER STORIES II | animated short film, 2016
The protagonist of the film is a woman who trips and falls, while rushing around the house. She gets up, only to discover, that her home has unusual features – it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions and covered with patterns.
SLEEPINCORD | animated short film, 2011
A girl is caught between the sleeping and waking worlds held by a thin umbilical cord of images and emotions.
ADDITIONAL HONORS
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
3-month residency at Q21 / MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (award from Tricky Women Festival), 2018
Scriptwriting grant from the Polish Filmmakers Association „Młoda Polska”
ScholarshipGrant from the budget of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, 20141-month
Animation residency at Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France, 2013
Young Artists’ Grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Creative Grant of the City of Kraków, 2006