PAULINA MAJDA

“Ktoś mógłby mnie zapytać – Dlaczego postanowiłaś zrealizować film inspirowany twórczością i życiem swojego Taty? Odpowiedź nie jest taka prosta i nie może być jednoznaczna, choć dla mnie wydaje się teraz oczywista. Przyświeca temu pewna siła, a raczej kilka sił: siła przeszłości, miłości, wdzięczności, przynależności. Wszystkie prowadzą w tym samym kierunku”.

 „T.M.” w reżyserii Pauliny Majdy to filmowa, animowana podróż przez obrazy i twórczość malarza Tadeusza Majdy, w którą zabiera widzów mała dziewczynka. Widzowie poznają twórczość artysty i niemalże zanurzają się w malowidłach stając się w jakimś stopniu ich częścią. Film ukazuje to, co kryje się za tematyką obrazów: doświadczenie choroby, szpital, cielesność, pracownia malarska, więzi rodzinne, ludzie, kruchość życia. Nie trudno też nie dostrzec przeplatający się wątek relacji ojca i córki, widziany z lekkiego dystansu, ale wyraźny i znaczący. Poprzez wędrówkę, której tło stanowią subtelne kompozycje i tajemnicze portrety stopniowo wyłania się opowieść o człowieku i jego twórczości, która oscyluje między jawą, a snem, prawdą i fikcją.

Może być też odczytana jako uniwersalna opowieść o relacjach międzyludzkich, gdzie silne więzi łączą się i przenikają eksplorując jednocześnie materię malarską ojca i filmową córki.

“T.M.” to filmowy, intymny portret artysty, którego osoba i twórczość, mimo upływającego czasu, wciąż dają o sobie znać. 

https://tadeuszmajda.pl/

Scenariusz, reżyseria: Paulina Majda

Produkcja: Marmolada Films, Justyna Rucińska, Tomasz Laptaszyński, Ada Włodowska

Film współfinansowany przez Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej

Film w produkcji, 2024

In art everything connects, creating a visual and multidimensional dialogue. The exhibition presented in March 2024 at the MeMo Mediateka in Lodz, Poland is a fragment of a larger audiovisual project created during the pandemic, which is not without significance.

It is the sum of connections at the intersection of various visual arts and sounds. A kind of play with forms, materials and colors, where one creative activity naturally influences or results from another. It is also a search for analogies or contrasts between various materials, techniques or tools that intertwine with each other and initiate the new ones.

The presented collection of nearly 30 artworks consists of 2 - dimensional compositions created in the spirit of surreal abstraction, composed of seemingly unnecessary objects e.x. fragments of plastic chocolate boxes or paper bits of game boards, which are then brought to life in the form of moving images and short animations.

Paulina Majda's exhibition is a kind of vivisection of the creative process during the pandemic, the main motif of which is the title ‘Connections, Liaisons’.

The project and exhibition were created with the support of he artistic scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage 2022.

Each work of the series is aprox. 20 x 20 cm

‘Fragments. Lost > Found > Transformed’ is an audiovisual triptych that combines three different forms of presentation and its perception: 10 static assemblages, 6 moving animated images and 1 VR experience. One action affects another one and creates a visual dialogue at the intersection of fine arts, animation and the new immersive art (VR).

The main inspiration for this project has been found in potentially unneccessary objects. While being in a creative process: stones, sticts, bits of glass, cardboards pieces, dry fruits, seeds and other diverse things have been selected and transformed into abstract assemblages, and then put into motion to finally become a part of the immersive, virtual world.

The project is kind of artistic vivisection and a look at the artist’s creative journey.

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The project was produced under the scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, 2022.

Thank you Maciej Mucha, also Maciej Ligowski and Maciek Sznabel for the support.

“My Place in the Universe” is a personal journey through facts and thoughts about our existence in the Universe written and directed by Eduard Thomas. The film is dedicated for dome screening. Art concepts and stop-motion fulldome animations (fragments of the whole film) created and animated by Paulina Majda.

World premiere was held in the Planetarium in Berlin, April 2022.

List of credits:

Künstleriche Leitung: Prof. Dr. Isabella Beyer, Dr. Paulina Majda, Dr. Natalia Oliwiak

2D Artist: Prof. Dr. Isabella Beyer, Dr. Paulina Majda, Dr. Natalia Oliwiak

3D Artist: Martin Kossmann

Stop-motion Artist: Dr. Paulina Majda

Musikalische Leitung: Christine Högl

Komposition und Harfe: Christine Högl

Sounddesign: Frank Rausch

Sprecher: Frank Wolff

Englische Fassung: Frank Wolff

Produktionsberatung: Berit Thomas

Produzent: Eduard Thomas

Soundproduktion. audio: World Tonstudio Remscheid

Kooperierender Produzent : WJTeam / Likaon Justyna Rucinska, Anna Mroczek, Wojciech Leszczynski

Gesamtbearbeitung: ib creations studio

Produziert im Auftrag des Vereins zur Förderung von Kultur und Wissenschaftskommunikation

Gefördert durch das Amt für Kultur und Weiterbildung der Landeshauptstadt Kiel

Duration: 50 min

Year of production: 2020, Germany

The 30 – minute fulldome animation, Hello Earth leads the audience through centuries of human communication and tells the story of how it changed the world and our personal lives.

Seeking contact with others remains one of the earliest and strongest humans’ needs. By trying to fulfill this need, we invented writing, radio, telephone and finally – the Internet. We overcame language barriers, problems related to distance and information flow time. Thanks to modern technologies and communication devices, we develop our civilisation – we are changing the world and ourselves.

Directed, edited by – Paulina Majda
Screenplay – Paulina Majda, Maciek Sznabel, Maciej Mucha
Animation director – Maciej Rasala
Animation, modelling, texture mapping, lights, rendering, compositing – Maciej Rasala, Miroslaw Restel, Leszek Mielczarski, Magdalena Sobczak, Maciek Sznabel
Art Directors – Paulina Majda, Maciej Rasala

Polish narration – Zbigniew Zamachowski
English narration – Andrzej Blumenfeld
Music – Jan Duszynski

Sound design – Agata Chodyra, Dominika Kotarba
Executive producer – Maciej Mucha
Producers – Heavens of Copernicus Planetarium, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw 2017

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjrH70IEPGc

Awards:

2018 - The Best Animated Fulldome Film Award at the First Minsk International Fulldome Festival, BY

2018 - Gold Winner, 360 - Degree Documentaries, Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards, FR

2018 - Expo China Science and Technology, (Best Special Effects

Award), Beijing, CHN

2017 - IFF'17 Immersive Film Festival (Best Soundtrack Award), PT

2017 - IFF'17 Immersive Film Festival (Best Movie Award), PT

2017 - Jena Fulldome Festival (Directors Award), DE

2017 - Fulldome Festival Brno (Best Fulldome Movie), CZ

"Dream to Fly" is the first Polish production in fulldome technology, which enables displaying movies on a spherical screen that surrounds the audience from all sides. Even though the team includes designers experienced in film and 3D animation, the fulldome 3D stereo technology has proven to be a challenge. In a sense we had to learn everything from scratch. The movie has been produced by Production Studio of the Heavens of Copernicus Planetarium in Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw. It took three years (2010-2013).

"Dream To Fly" is adventure with science and the history of flying. Film describes the most important milestones on our route to conquering the skies - both in terms of technological breakthroughs, as well as our perceptions on flying itself.  Discover the great secret of flying with Leonardo da Vinci, the Montgolfier brothers, the Wright brothers and other aviation pioneers.

How many times have you dreamt that you were flying? 

Production - Maciej Ligowski
Directed by - Paulina Majda
Story - Paulina Majda, Maciek Sznabel, Maciej Ligowski
Animation Directed by - Maciek Sznabel
Animation - Bartlomiej Borawski, Maciek Sznabel, Maciej Rasala
Art Director - Paulina Majda
Rendering - Miroslaw Restel

Narrated by Danuta Stenka
Music - Michal Lorenc

Duration: 35 min
Year of production: 2013

Copyrigts to Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Poland

Trailers:

https://vimeo.com/104865984

https://vimeo.com/74104177

Awards:

2016 - Fiskie Fulldome International Film Festival (Audience Choice), Colorado, US

2016 - Immersive Film Festival in Madrid (Best Fulldome Film), ES

2015 - 2nd Russian Fulldome Festival, Yaroslav (III Award), RU

2015 - Central European Fulldome Festival, Brno (Best Movie), CZ

2015 - Immersive Film Festival IFF'15 Espinho, Portugal (Best 3D Film), PT

2014 - Macao International Fulldome Festival (Audience Choice), CN

2014 - Festival, Beijing, China (Best Visuals and Best Audience Choice), CN

2013 - Imiloa Fulldome Film Festival, Hawaii (Best Script and Story), US

2013 - Fulldome Film Festival in Jena, Germany (Directors Award), DE

In Serra da Lousa region, 40 km from the city of Coimbra in Portugal, the small village Cerdeira is hidden.  All houses in a village are made of schist stone. In the 70 - ties, the Cerdeira village was abandoned  by the local community. Few years ago it has been carefully reconstructed using the traditional techniques to retain the original character of the village. This breathed life back into the place again.

The effect of Artistic Residency in Cerdeira is a series of art works, mini sculptures, installations and film based on the schist rock.

https://vimeo.com/246264536

http://www.cerdeiravillage.com/

Dirty, boring, grayisch concrete walls do not exist. If we only want the same walls may transformed into canvases, screens or billboards. The walls that don't mean barriers or borderlines but can become something else, the creative spaces where new stories may be created.

The art project called "I am not a boring Wall" is a series of short clips and body of works including assamblages (about 18 x 12 cm) inspired by Thailand. The artworks were displayed on the concrete wall in Sam Rit village in Thailand during the artistic residency in 2015.

http://www.samritresidency.com/

"Body" is a movie installation inspired by Czeslaw Milosz's poem The Body. Film was developed as a part of the project Poetry in Images launched by the Pogranicze Foundation based in Sejny. 

“In her latest film, Paulina Majda sees body as a material and means of expression. Her skin becomes a screen and canvas which absorbs the images projected on it. Defenceless, she accepts them and, at the same time, gives them a new, more personal meaning. In this autothematic act Majda explores her own boundaries focusing on the relationship between the artist and her material”

(promotional materials, 55th Krakow Film Festival, 2015)

Direction, animation, adaptation: Paulina Majda

Music: Konstantin Trokai, Chris Zabriskie (Creative Commons)

Voice: Dariusz Klimek

Voice recording: Dominika Kotarba

Duration: 4:45

Year of Production, 2014, Poland

Copyrights: Paulina Majda, Borderland Foundation, Sejny 

https://vimeo.com/112576646

"Two Steps Behind" refers to the issue of migrations and emigration. The boy embarks on the journey to the strange city where not everything seems so obvious. The story is inspired by the fragment of book "All that Brightness" by Edward Stachura. But the first impulse to create the story was the old photography of unknown boy found in my grandmother's house.

Written and directed by: Paulina Majda
Animation: Paulina Majda, Piotr Milczarek
Design: Paulina Majda
Music: Julita Górecka
Voice: Wojciech Malajkat
Sound: Slawomir Walczyk
Edited by: Janusz Czubak
Production manager: Wojciech Leszczynski
Produced by :Stowarzyszenie Filmowców Polskich, Studio "Mlodzi i Film" im. Andrzeja Munka, Telewizja Polska, Se-Ma-For Produkcja Filmowa co-financed by Polish Film Institute, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, National Centre for Culture
Duration: 8 min
Year of production: 2010
Country: Poland

Film represented by Krakow Film Foundation

Trailer:

https://vimeo.com/105120771

Awards:

2012 - ANIMOCJE, Bydgoszcz (distinction), PL

2011 - CUT OUT Mexico (I Award in non-narrative category), MX

2011 - OFAFA Krakow (distinction), PL

In 2006, Suzie Templeton directed respectively, a stop-motion animated adaptation, Peter and the Wolf. It is unusual in its lack of any dialogue or narration, the story being told only in images and sound and interrupted by sustained periods of silence. The soundtrack is performed by thePhilharmonia Orchestra, and the film received its premiere with a live accompaniment in the Royal Albert Hall in 2006 in London. The film won the Annecy Cristal and the Audience Award at the 2007 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.  

Paulina was one of the art directors (together with Wojciech Jaworski and Katarzyna Wasiela), and still photographer on the set. Her photos of people involved in production and animation as an art were shown at several exhibitions in Poland as accompanying exhibitions (2006-2008). They are also a unique series showing the secrets of working on the animated film stage, people and rich documentation, created before the era of Facebook and Instagram.

http://www.suzietempleton.com

'Invisible' is a short student animation inspired by Quey's Brothers movies. Invisible Man wanders through the mysterious desert. Even though we can't see him we know and feel his presence throughout different objects he finds on his way.

Directed and animated by Paulina Majda
Set Design: Paulina Majda
Cinematography: Anna Sujka
Editing: Basia Fronc
Sound: Marek Knaga, Zbigniew Nowak
Music by Julita Górecka
Year of production: 2004, Poland
Producer: Polish Film School in Lodz, Poland

(film print 35 mm, animated objects, student short)

https://vimeo.com/123834162

Parallel to film, Paulina has a passion for traditional, motionless images like spacial paintings, assemblages and sculptures. In her abstract compositions she merges different techniques and often uses "unnecessary objects" such as pieces of clothes, stockings, strings, stones, broken pieces of glass, mirror and wood, etc. She finds them valuable and powerful. On the first sight her artworks are colorful, vibrant, optimistic but they resonate on different levels and often go deeper hiding kind of mystery or sadness.

Paulina has presented her works at few individual and group exhibitions. She has been choosen by jury: prof. Maria Szyszkowska, Jerzy Mierzejewski, Jan Tarasin, Tadeusz Dominik, Leon Tarasewicz, Tomasz Ciecierski as a laureate of Polish Painting Debut Competition "Tolerance" in 2004. 

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Paulina creates for individual clients. If you are interested in one of her paintings or would like to order the new one feel welcome to contact her.

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paulinamajda99@gmail.com

Please, visit the website to learn more.

http://tadeuszmajda.pl/index.php

https://vimeo.com/217026287

Fulldome demo reel 2017

https://vimeo.com/208285637