
Marta Pajek
Visual Effects
Biography
Marta Pajek was born in 1982 in Kielce, Poland. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where she specialized in animated film. As part of an exchange programme she studied in Turku Arts Academy. Author of the animated short films. Her previous film – Impossible Figures and Other Stories II was screened and won awards at almost 80 festivals in both Poland and abroad, and attained 25 awards among others, including the Grand Prix of the Stuttgard ITFS.
Known For

In order to save their rehab facility, four cross-addicted anonymous alcoholics undertake a very risky task to smuggle two tankers of spirit across Poland. For their own safety, they kidnap their therapist for the trip. However, the journey turns out to be more dangerous than they expected. After them – or rather the illegal alcohol they are transporting – is a Customs Officer, who is not entirely who she says she is. From then on, everything gets complicated.
Drużyna AA

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
Kill It and Leave This Town

The first and—paradoxically—the final part of the triptych. The city, which is its subject, grows not only in space but, most importantly, in time. With all consequences.
Impossible Figures and Other Stories I

Get an inside look into the Polish national soccer team as it competes in the EURO 2012, which was hosted by Poland for the first time in history.
You're Gonna Be a Legend, Man

NEF Animation (nefanimation.fr) and Fontevraud Abbey are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fontevraud International Writing Residency for Animated Film in October 2017. A book and DVD set is being released for the occasion, featuring fifteen animated short films written during residencies at Fontevraud Abbey. Fifteen films, fifteen perspectives, fifteen worlds, presented in a video medley lasting a few minutes.
10 ans de résidence à l'Abbaye de Fontevraud

A man and a woman meet in a waiting room and immediately get close to each other. They commence a game that gradually gets more and more ferocious. Their faces resemble masks while shapes slowly lose their integrity. Bodies are formed like clay, embracing each other up to the limits of impossibility. III is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the same time. The film is the third part of the triptych Impossible Figures and other stories.
III
Fragments of memories, dreams and life experiences come together in Impressionist and ethereal images
Refrains

The film portrays a story of a woman, who keeps on stumbling and falling in her daily rush.
Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

"Sleepincord" raises the issue of dream. Dream is the meeting point of the world of body and mind; it is intangible for us and hard to examine thoroughly. It happens inside but, at the same time, outside of us and, therefore, gives rise to anxiety.
Sleepincord
Somewhere, no one knows where, all the apples have fallen and everything is immersed in sleep. In a small apartment, a mother sleeps with her child in an armchair. And when reason sleeps.
Po jabłkach

A witch invites us to join the festival of animated films made by women.