Recently I came across a short animated movie called Fallen Art by Tomek Baginski. The movie was produced in Poland on limited budget. It is visually stunning with a dynamic story.
The metaphor for war and military is used as never before. Acompletely fresh and disturbing idea is handled with dark humor. Baginski humiliates all the military forces by unveiling something they all have in common: insanity.
This short is a definite accomplishment for him but it is not his only accomplishment. He won an Oscar for his previous short in 2002 called The Cathedral.
What fascinates me more that the short itself is the people behind the short. It was produced in Poland where there is very little commercial market for animated movies that dramatically limits the resources available to artists and animators. There are no big animation studios, high-end animation schools, or wide audience for animation. Most of the artists who worked on this movie mostly learned their skills on their own as did Baginski himself. He wanted to be a filmmaker but didn't own a camera so he taught himself animation just for the sake of making a movie. They had a lot of creativity and a drive to tell a good story and no proper outlet, but that didn't stopped them. That is what inspires me!
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