Movies by Piotr DumaƂa

A Nervous Life of Cosmos

A Nervous Life of Cosmos

A short black comedy movie with a scent of horror. A distant planet somewhere in space inhabited by black Characters from fairy tales.

Franz  Kafka

Franz Kafka

A fantasy biography of Franz Kafka, bringing to life the writer's diaries and photographs.

Freedom of the Leg

Freedom of the Leg

A dream-like story of a sleeping man whose body parts live their own lives at night to return to him in the morning - all except one leg which has chosen freedom. Its owner as well as a crowd of homeless men chase the leg, but it grows feathers and flies away as a bird. A grotesque tale with a poetic ending and with interesting music by Janusz Hajdun.

Walls

Walls

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

Lykantropia

Lykantropia

Wolves reveal they are really humans in wolf costumes and proceed to eat each other.

A Gentle Spirit

A Gentle Spirit

A man seated next to the body of his young wife thinks about their brief life together. Suicide has been the only escape for her... Dumala's technique creates a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere, entirely suitable for Dostoyevski's novel "A Gentle Spirit" on which it is based.

Flying Hair

Flying Hair

Under the starlight, a boy and a girl are running. A thunderstorm breaks out, trees are shattered, and a rain of silver needles turned into hair floats through the air.