Piotr Dumała
Polish film director · Poland · On the map · Directors · Born 1956 · age 70
Piotr Dumała is a Polish film director and animator. He is noted for his animation technique. While training to be a sculptor, he discovered that scratching images into painted plaster could be a beautiful way to create animations.
Piotr Dumała is read about 9 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 16 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Fin del mundo?Film, Director, Writer2016
The Treflik FamilySeries, Writer2015
EderlyFilm, Director, Writer2014
HipopotamyFilm, Director, Writer2011Dr Character Presents IIFilm, Director, Writer2010Dr Character Presents IFilm, Director, Writer2001
Wyspa R.O.Film, pilot2000
Crime and PunishmentFilm, Director1996
PańciaFilm, Priest1992
Franz KafkaFilm, Director, Writer1988
WallsFilm, Director, Writer1987
Academy Leader VariationsFilm, Director1985
A Gentle SpiritFilm, Director, Writer1984
Flying HairFilm, Director1981
LykantropiaFilm, Director, Writer1956Born9 July 1956People around Piotr
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Filmography 23
45 credits on file
Television 1
Awards
About this person
This is only one technique of a method called destructive animation, where one image is erased and re-drawn to create the next frame in the sequence. William Kentridge is another artist who works in this destructive way. Dumała's main themes, and the way to show them, recall ostensibly the world of writer Franz Kafka. His film Crime and Punishment was included in the Animation Show of Shows. In 1992 his film Franz Kafka won the Grand Prix for best short film at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb, and his film Hipopotamy received Grand Prize for Independent Short Animation at 2014 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
