Initial release 1958 | Cast Ligia Branice | |
Directors Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica Screenplay Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica Music director Ligia Branice, Włodzimierz Kotoński Nominations BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film Similar Mr and Mrs Kabal's T, The Astronauts, The Games of Angels, Goto - Island of Love, Blanche | ||
Dom (Polish for House) is a 1958 Polish short film directed by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica. The short combines live action with various animation techniques, such as stop motion, cut-out animation and pixilation.
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Plot
A woman (played by Borowczyk's wife Ligia Branice) has a series of surreal, dream-like hallucinations and encounters within the confines of a lonely apartment building. Some of these bizarre occurrences include various abstract objects appearing in a room, two men engaging in fencing and martial arts, a man entering and leaving a room repeatedly, and a living wig destroying several items on a table. The film ends with the woman passionately kissing a male mannequin's face before it crumbles to pieces.
Awards
Dom was nominated to the 1959 BAFTA Film Award, in the category Best Animated Film, but lost to The Violinist.