Adrienne Nowak
Born in 1985. She quickly became interested in animation. She joined the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and followed the exchange programme with Calarts in Los Angeles. Her end-of-studies film, “My Home,” is a fictional documentary about the relationship between an old woman and her nurse in a retirement home, while “Gusła Or The Spirits” is her first professional film.Gusła ou les Malins (2016)
Ma Maison (2011)
Milie (2010)
Films
- "Gusła ou le Malins" D: Adrienne Nowak, I: Eric Mauger, AN: Adrienne Nowak, Sandra Rivaud, Emilie Pigeard, Florent Morin, ED: Nazim Meslem, FR 20169’
Adrienne goes back to Poland, where she was born, to see her grandmother and ask her family about the still relatively recent times of communism. In her aunt and uncle’s cosy kitchen she will learn that the spirits of communism are not the only ones to haunt Polish immigrants, and that there are many unexpected and old means of facing them. This extraordinary animation merges the real and surreal worlds in a humoristic way. As it turns out, withcraft and fortune-telling are still deeply entrenched in today's Poland.
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