THE POOL OR DEATH OF A GOLDFISH
POLISH TITLE: Basen albo śmierć złotej rybki
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 14'
- YEAR:
- 2025
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Daria Kopiec
- SCRIPT:
- Daria Kopiec
- DOP:
- Michał Stajniak, Mateusz Nowak
- EDITOR:
- Monika Sirojc
- MUSIC:
- Natalia Czekała
- SOUND:
- Agata Chodyra
- ANIMATION:
- Bartosz Kotarski, Urszula Domańska, Anna Polińska
- PRODUCTION:
- Tomasz Łaptaszyński, Justyna Rucińska
Daria Kopiec »
Director of live action, animated films and theater director. Currently a 4th year student of the Directing Department at The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. In 2009 graduated with a master degree from the Łódź Film School, the Direction of Photography Department, specialization: Animation and Special Effects. From 2010 member of the Polish Filmmakers Association (SFP). From November 2006 to March 2007 she was granted a scholarship at the Animation Department of l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in Brussels. Laureate of international awards for animated films: “Cosmos”, “Rivers”, “Bobo's Metamorphoses”. Spectacle “Lear’s Daughters” which was directed by her won seven awards at international theater festivals. Her spectacle “The Tales of the Robots” made with Pinokio Theater in Łódź has been awarded Golden Mask (2017). She won Grand Prix for Television Theatre at Teatroteka 2018 for „The Rita G. Affair”.
The Pool or Death of the Goldfish is a story about the path to maturity. The titular pool is a metaphor for the unexpressed emotions flooding the main character, which are triggered by her constant tuning in to the needs of others, which is symbolized by the goldfish. The title of the film therefore contains a certain provocation, a question about the choice: staying under the symbolic water of flooding, unexpressed feelings, or gaining the courage to work through the goldfish schema in yourself in order to regain freedom.