Theatre section
Theatre of puppets is not a mirror or an infantile introduction to the "real theatre", not a didactic method, not a pedagogical way for our beloved nor a way of imitating anything. Of course it could be any of this. We present you the spectacles which use the art of animation from classics to experiments. We would like to convince you that there are various languages of art and many creative spaces which are worth to explore. To laugh at them, to be touched by them, breathe by them and negate only if consciously.
Marek b. Chodaczyński
General
Director
Marek b. Chodaczyński (1954) - zodiacal Taurus, Director, co-founder and chairman of The Impossible Theatre Union. Father and director of International Festival of Puppet Theatres and Animated Films for Adults "Puppet is a Human too". President of the Polish Center of International Puppet Artist's Union POLUNIMA. A cultural animator. Individual prizes for direction in Poland and Czech Republic. Individual prizes and scholarship of Minister of Culture. He received medals: "Gloria Artis", "Meritorious for Polish Culture" and medal on the 50th anniversary of POLUNIMA and the distinction "The Talents of Ochota". He has directed spectacles in Poland, Belarus and Russia.
Jury
Krystyna Żuchowska
President of the Jury
Pupeteer. For 50 years a spokesman and spiritus movens of puppetry for adults. In the early 70s a professor at SATL (Wroclaw), involved in the productions of Wroclaw Puppet Theatre, an actress of Warsaw theatres, LALKA and Fraszka, also associated with TV.
Her translatations include Jacinto Benavente, Alfred Jarry, Lemercier de Neuville, adaptations: Anonymous' On Alcasin and Nicoletta, Stanisław Wyspiański's The Wedding, Leszek Kołakowski's The Key to Heaven.
Member of International Puppetry Association UNIMA.
Livija Kroflin
Assistant Professor Livija Kroflin, Ph.D. graduated in Comparative Literature and English Language and earned her Master’s with the thesis The Puppet Theatre in Zagreb 1945–1985 and her Ph.D. with the doctoral thesis The International Puppet Theatre Festival (the PIF) 1968–2007 in the Context of European Puppetry. She worked at the International Culture Centre in Zagreb as artistic director of the PIF and as director of the Centre. Since 2007, she has been employed at the Dept. of Theatre Arts at the Academy of Arts in Osijek, where she heads up the Puppetry Programme and lectures on the history and aesthetics of puppetry. She is a selector of the PIF productions and founder and leader of the Lutkobus Puppetry Troupe. She is an international councillor and a member of the UNIMA Executive Committee.
She has written two books, several puppet plays and a host of articles on puppetry, edited a series of books on the subject and participated in a number of international conferences on puppetry (Budapest, Prague, Subotica, Ljubljana, Moscow, Jakarta, Beijing). Since 2015 she is the Head of the Department of Theatre Arts at the Academy of Arts in Osijek.
Bartłomiej Miernik
Thirty years old man, an editorial secretary of a magazine Teatr. Born in a village in Podkarpacie, studied in Warsaw. A graduate of theatrology in Warsaw Theatre Academy. During his studies, he was a scholar of Minister of Culture (2004/05). He has worked on several theatre festivals. An author of reviews, interviews and essays wrote to Teatr, Scena and ballettanz. An owner of a sponge colour Labrador named Prada, with which he often walks at the river bank.
He is interested in dance theatre, puppet theatre, and acts from the borderline of theatre and plastic arts.
Igor Kozakov
The principal director of the Puppet Theatre in Mogilev. Award-winning at prestigious festivals in Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Croatia, Belarus and Russia. Valued for his non-stereotypical use of the language of theater and the enormous creative potential. He is a new generation of directors, which is characterized by bravery of artistic expression. He has a reputation as a provocateur and a representative of radicalism in the theater.
Jury Verdict
Awards of the 11th International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Film Animations for Adults „Puppet is a Human too”
Jury consisting of Krystyna Żuchowska (Chairman of the Jury), Livija Kroflin, Igor Kozakov, Bartek Miernik has decided to:
- award special purpose of 5 000 PLN for the creation of a new show by the director and actors of the project "TRIP" - Department of Puppetry in Bialystok of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art
- give an honorable mention in the amount of 2 000 PLN for the use of modern means of expression in theatre - "A House in Asia" Agrupacion Senor Serrano / Spain
- admit two equal "For Expressing Theatre with a Puppet" awards of 6 000 PLN each
- for creative work with the object - "I, Sisyphus" Puppet's Lab / Bulgaria
- for creativity - "Rothko Chapel" Feikes Huis / The Netherlands
- admit "For Expressing Life with a Puppet" actor award of 6 000 PLN to Companie La Pendue / France for the "Poli Degaine" spectacle
Due to outstanding performance presented by all of the teams this year, the Jury has decided not to grant the Grand Prix award.
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The "Miraculous Moment" award for a beautiful moment of animation issued by the President of Impossible Theatre Union in the form of a bronze sculpture (a replica of Noemi sculpture from the "Options of Life" by professor Leszek Kołakowski" spectacle, originally crafted by Ewald Kornek) was granted to Alla Novikova, Lyudy i Lyalʹky Theatre for a theatrical revival of child's doll in the "Ecclesiastes" spectacle.
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"A Hundred for the Point" students award (100 Euros) was granted to the Cloud Theatre for A Short Outline of Everything ("Krótki Zarys Wszystkiego") spectacle.
Reason:
- Father Tischner said that if the theatre does not say anything about the man, it is better to go for a beer. We therefore admit an award for the formulation of the truth about the man and the world.
- For the balance of content and form.
- For the ability to capture everything in a short outline.
Karolina Przystupa and Karolina Okurowska.
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The "Blind Invitation for the next Festival edition" Audience Award was granted to Zero en Conducta, the creators of the "Allegro ma non troppo".