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QUEEN LEOCADIA

POLISH TITLE: KRÓLOWA LEOKADIA

A documentary-animated film introducing the life and work of the forgotten, outstanding Polish puppet theater artist Leokadia Serafinowicz. The production featured the Artist's co-workers, as well as prominent theater scholars such as Agnieszka Koecher-Hensel and Halina and Marek Waszkiel. The fictionalized part of the film is unusually based on live-action puppet animation, using, among other things, original puppets by Leokadia Serafinowicz, which have survived to this day. The film shows a strong portrait of women in the theater and puppet theater as an unusual tool of metaphor and artistic expression.

GENRE:
documentary / animation
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
55'
YEAR:
COLOUR:
colour
DIRECTING:
Aga Błaszczak
SCRIPT:
Aga Błaszczak
DOP:
Jan Dudek
EDITOR:
Jan Dudek
MUSIC:
Aga Błaszczak
SOUND:
Alex Banaszkiewicz, Piotr Konkiewicz, Adam Koterski
PRODUCTION:
Granator Film, Jerzy Czachowski , Filip Gawel
COPRODUCTION:
TVP S.A.

Aga Błaszczak »

Theatre and film director. A graduate of the Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow, Branch in Wroclaw, the Wajda Film School in Warsaw, and the Ivan Vyrypaev Theatre School. She also studied at the Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in London. She specializes in visual and puppet theatre. She experiments with form and combines different art languages, working at the intersection of genres. Since her debut in 2017, she has directed over 35 productions in institutional and independent theaters in Poland and abroad, as well as short documentary films and experimental videos. She is the author of video projections for her own theatre performances and director of photography for experimental forms.