SHIVERING TRUNKS

DRŻĄCE TRĄBY

Pafnucy – furry butterfingers with a latex trunk – is dissatisfied with his face. He looks at the photos of Kalasanty with envy thinking that Kalasanty is a real role model, vibrant with health and cheerfulness. At the same time lonely Kalasanty experiences similar dilemmas… A simple story exploding with amazing sense
of humour and full of wisdom, a story about the destructive power of negative emotions where the narration based on the director’s monologue.

Genre: Animowany
Country: Poland
Running time: 3
Year: 2011

Director: Natalia Brożyńska

Script: Natalia Brożyńska

DOP: Malin Nicander

Music: Paweł Sołtysiak

Editing: Natalia Brożyńska

Production company: PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)

About the director:

was born in 1990 in Łódź. In 2009, she began attending the Łódź Film School, specialization: animation and special effects. She completed the first year of studying there with her debut puppet animation titled ‘Shivering Trunks’. It received many awards, for example at Cracov Film Festival, Era New Horizons, Se-Ma-For Film Festival. During the second year, she realised a claymation called ‘Turuntai, the End and the Beginning’.

In the time of the third year of studies, she was working on her stop-motion music video to American New Wave band, Devo. Film “Searching For DEVO” received the award at 22nd Polish Videoclip Festival YachFilm a ‘Best Animation’. In 2015, she graduated from the Film School realizing puppet animation “The Advisers of King Hydrops”. It is based on one of ‘The Robot Tales“ by Poland’s world famous sci-fi writer, Stanisław Lem.

At festivals:

Open St. Petersburg Student Film Festival 'Beginning', Russia, 2011 (competition)

Play Poland Film Festival, travelling, 2012 (screening)

8th Ciné Privé Film Festival, Belgium, 2015 (screening)

Animanima Animation Festival 2015, Serbia, 2015 (screening)

Animatou - International Animation Film Festival 2019, Switzerland, 2019 (screening)