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    On Time

    Zbigniew Czapla
    Poland | 2021 | 5’30

    An intense experience of travel through time and space. Japanese trains. Accidental encounters. From Matsuo Basho’s haiku to the images of a vanishing world created by Hokusai in Manga catalogs.

    Direction: Zbigniew Czapla
    Screenplay: Zbigniew Czapla, Asuka Yotsumoto
    Editing: Zbigniew Czapla
    Sound Design: Zbigniew Czapla
    Voices: Anna Maria Marylska, Asuka Yotsumoto, Takashi Namiki
    Production: Ind.

    Zbigniew Czapla

    He was born in 1972, he is a painter, graphic artist, screenwriter, and animation director. He studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, graduating with a degree from the Animated Film Studio. He is the creator of experimental animated films that have been screened at festivals around the world. He works primarily in 2D stop-motion animation. Winner of awards at festivals such as: Animator, Animatou, Etudia&Anima International Film Festival, MIFA Montreal Independent Film Awards, MESSAGE TO MAN, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Krakow Film Festival, and many others. He is a member of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Among his works: Paperbox (2011), Toto (2013), Strange Case (2017) and On Time (2021). Tremor is his next work, today in production.