In the Shadow

Experimental animated short about a man returning by train.

Kucia's most recent film, Across the Field (1992), is his longest and arguably his most complex film in terms of imagery. In it, he applies many of the various techniques he has developed for his films over the years, the result being a rich collage of drawing, photographic images, and live-action film footage whose individual frames he has manipulated. This complex technique exists, according to Kucia, only as a vehicle to evoke the mood and emotion he wishes the audience to experience. This Impressionist approach to filmmaking is no doubt what inspired Marcin Gizycki to dub Kucia the "Bresson of Polish animated film."

The harvest season recalls past time, gives rise to reflections, memories. The logic of the aftermath of events is replaced here by the logic of memory.

The film shows the process of evoking feelings and searching for landscape specificity by recounting events which have taken place in the scenery.

A study of loneliness and passing away.

Various animated depictions of movement, accompanied by different instrumental and ambient sound arrangements.

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

In sharp monochromatic tones, the slow and difficult hatching of an insect, followed by the discovery of the harsh nature of its new world.

Animated, various techniques. A bareer is slowly moving down at the railroad. It prevents people from passing across the road. While waiting, people start to think and dream. Their dreams influence a guy who watches them from a tiny house nearby.

1978 Polish animated short

A film on the subject of the passing time and the irrevocability of time.

Cut-up, mixed techniques. A story of a passenger travelling up with a lift. Disconnected memories, devoted from emotions confront with the emptiness of the urban landscape.