7:30 min. / volor / Digital BETA
Graduate film in co-production between the Polish National Film School in Lodz and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Storyboard
Pictures from the early and final version of the storyboard.
Running away from the Polish Film School
Lodz 2000
Festivals
The movie was invited to about 50 international festivals. It received awards at Ars Electronica, Houston Film Festival and others.
DVD
“Mouse” was released on DVD compilations in USA, Austria, Japan and Poland.
SUN > EARTH > MOON > LIGHT BULB
The first shot of “One Often Feels…” shows Sun appearing from the bottom. My second movie “Sorry” begins with planet Earth. Third – “Headless” – starts with Moon centered in frame. Movies open with an object that is emitting or reflecting light and is smaller then the previous one. Finally, my graduation film “Mouse” opens with a light emitted from a lamp post light bulb. Many years later I drew the same beginning in my graphic novel about a man who becomes a lamp post – “Mr. Light Bulb”.
Red color
Ever since my first colorful shorts the red color was a symbol of adulthood.
In “Headless” the red color appears in the most important moments in the movie: when the hero loses his head and when he’s about to give the balloon to the girl. The balloon is red too – the hero “tries on” adulthood.
In “Mouse” the red car brings the hero in a new place. The hero confronts his personality (a mouse) in an adult world. The new circumstances reject the hero who gets rid of the mouse in the imaginary red tunnel. The hero denies himself and copies the behavior of others.
In “Splinter” the red color is put in contrast with the opposite green color (childhood). Most of the story takes place in a green park surrounded by a red fence – a place between the forest and the town, between the green and the red.
Written, designed and directed by
Animation
- Wojtek Wawszczyk
- Alan Shamsudin
- Thilo Kienle
Modelling
- Wojtek Wawszczyk
- Alan Shamsudin
- Rafał Wieczorek
- Sławek Bochuta
- Kuba Tarkowski
Textures
- Wojtek Wawszczyk
- Jacek Rokosz
- Ania Kubik
Particles
Lighting
Music
Sound
Foley
Producers
- Georg Gruber
- Michael Schafer
Voices
- Wojtek Wawszczyk
- Marcus Neuberger
Musicians
- Adele Chiu
- Gunther Wirthuis
- Marcus Heeb
- Sebastian Hässy
- Pia Burzlaff
- Hyun-Joo Suk
- Christina Niessen
- Birgit Breidenbach
- Thorsten Grümbel
