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Dom (film)
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Wikipedia article
'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.
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'.[http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/nominations/?year=1959 BAFTA Awards 1959]
See also
* List of avant-garde films of the 1950s
References
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