This Is Not a Bath

A cat lover, Jesus leaving the cross and Christmas carollers holding pitchforks are set against a snowy and icy scenery. ‘Zima’, a psychodelic journey to a small fishing village, collects as if in a lens the behaviour, customs and vices of the Polish provinces. In this small community, different views, the behaviour of people and animals and their mutual relations clash like ice floes on a lake. Maintained in the convention of magic realism, this animation is like a horror playing out to the accompaniment of barking dogs and a punk metal music score.

An elderly woman no longer gets out of bed. She lives with her dog. Her memories blend with reality, and reality with dreams.

A woman is afraid of a big black bird she keeps in her flat locked in a cage. She decides to take it to the Office of Weights and Measures to have it measured. Hovering over the border between the absurd and grotesque, the animation shows our hidden fears, loneliness and cages we create for ourselves.