Izabella Plucińska

Izabella Plucinska studied at The Polish National Film School and Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź and later took up studies at Film School in Potsdam, Germany (2003). Plucińska obtained a scholarship from DAAD and the Nipkow Program in Berlin. Her diploma film project JAM SESSION won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 2005. In 2006 Plucińska set up her own film production company ClayTraces. A couple of years later, she made the widely acclaimed film BREAKFAST for Polish National Television. She has also directed and produced 7 MORE MINUTES and MARATHON, which was her first collaboration with Spela Cadez. In 2009 Plucińska finished her largest project so far - a 25-minute adaptation of a popular German picture book ESTERHAZY by Irene Dische and Hans-Magnus Enzensberger. Her last clay film JOSETTE UND IHR PAPA is an adaptation of a children's book written by E. Ionesco. Since 2009 she has given lectures at Potsdam-Babelsberg Film School. Currently, she has been working with a small team of animators in Berlin on her new short project entitled LIEBLING.
Josette and her father 2010 (8')
(german dubbing with english subtitles)

Josette knocks on her parents' bedroom. Daddy is in a bad mood today. "Where is mom?!". It appears that her mother went to the countryside for a couple of days. The girl wants to play, but her dad has to get up and dress for work. Well, he is not in the living room, not in the vase, neither in the oven, nor on the couch. He is not in the trouser pocket either, where is dad?"...
Esterhazy 2009 (25')

The hero is the young, partly blind and somewhat scrawny bunny Esterhazy, from the Esterhazy-Dynasty Vienna. He is sent to Berlin by the family patriarch Count Esterhazy to find a huge, healthy and beefy female buniie somewhere near the mysterious Berlin Wall. After a long, extensive search he finally finds his paradise (the bunnie paradise that existed in reality between the eastern and the western part of the famous Berlin Wall). Esterhazy moves there with the love of his life, Mimi, but as it is 1989 the Berlin Wall comes down...
Śniadanie 2006 (2'20'')

At the breakfast table a man and a woman do not have anything to say to each other until the wind blows into the room forcing them to face reality.
Jeszcze 7 minut 2008 (12'10'')

A train accident. Four of the passengers awaken on the beach. It is sunny, warm, the sky is blue and the seagulls are screaming. Why not take a swim in the sea? Maybe they already drifting to the eternity...
Maraton 2008 (5')

Many people are taking part in a marathon in a small town. Suddenly, a dense fog appears. Runners begin to lose their orientation. Since they cannot stop running they quickly disappear in the milky fog.
Jam Session 2005 (9'30'')

Theresa and Viktor, a middle-aged couple, live in an apartment right above a jazz club. They cannot sleep at night because of the music coming from the club. But perhaps it is a welcomed distraction from their mundane lives?