Apr 16, 2019

Watch: Marta Pajek on her short film trilogy Impossible Figures

Polish filmmaker Marta Pajek is currently working on the second third of her fascinating and complex trilogy of short films, Impossible Figures and Other Stories. The series is a series of hallucinatory, semi-abstract short films that use the impossible figure as a metaphor for exploring situations that occur in a variety of spaces, including the space between two people, inside a house, or an entire city.

Released in 2016 and 2018, the first two short films produced by Animoon were huge hits on the festival circuit, winning numerous awards, including the Grand Prix Impossible Figures and Other Stories II was released in 2017 in Grand Prix in Stuttgart and GLAS, and won the Best Polish Film Award at the Animator Film Festival in Poland, while the second film, Impossible Figures and Other Stories III, was last year's Cannes Film Festival's Competition, as well as Best Animated Film at the Krakow Film Festival, the Grand Prix of the Jury and the Audience Award at Animateka, and the top prize at the 2019 edition of Tricky Women.

A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he studied under filmmaker Jerzy Kutia, Pajek then joined the Turku Arts Academy in Finland as a trainee under the guidance of Priit Perun In 2011, he entered his first film festival with "Sleepincord"

He is currently working on his first film "Sleepincord.

She is currently working on a third short film in the "Impossible Figures" series and has a feature project in the works.

She spoke with Cartoon Brew last June at the Annecy Animation Film Festival in France about the concept of the film series, how she planned the story, and the important role music plays in her films.