Cinema
House
Dom
Walerian Borowczyk · 1958
Synopsis
A woman, alone in a building, is visited by a series of hallucinations and dreamed encounters without ever leaving the apartment. The most ordinary objects, a newspaper, a glass of milk, take on a disquieting life and stir up in her panic and a feeling of confinement; drawn, cut-out and photographed images, including a pastiche of Muybridge's studies of motion, blend with live-action footage to depict the daydreams of an idle housewife.
Context
The film is the second made jointly by two poster artists, Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica, after Był sobie raz in 1957, for the Kadr production unit. It combines live-action footage, stop-motion animation, cut-out, pixilation and collage. It was shown in Brussels during the 1958 World's Fair, together with Polański's short film, and its author left for Paris the following year.
Who it is for
A short film without dialogue and without a continuous narrative, to be watched as a sequence of images that answer one another.
Prizes and reception
Grand Prize of the Brussels experimental film competition in 1958; the film that made its author known in Europe.
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