Jam Session
- Studio
- Hochschule fuer Film & Fernsehen, "Konrad Wolf"
Synopsis
Teresa and Viktor, a married couple who are about 50 years old, live in an apartment above a music club.
They are tired and bored by their long relationship. They are ordinary, overweight people.
That night, Raz Dwa Trzy plays in the club. Teresa and Viktor cannot sleep because of the loud music coming from the club downstairs. They do not know why, but they are in need of music which takes them away from their boring lives.
Viktor and Teresa lie next to each other in the bed of their bedroom. Viktor is smoking a cigarette.
Teresa tells him to turn off the tap in the bathroom. Viktor goes angrily into the bathroom. He makes strange faces in front of the mirror. Teresa is curious about what Viktor is doing. She spies on him.
Teresa and Viktor meet each other at the door of the bathroom. Both can not fit through the door-frame. Their plasticine colors mix with each other; Viktor's white shirt mixes with Teresa's yellow chemise. Both try to clean themself by pushing the other plasticine color away from their clothes.
The music coming from downstairs gets louder. The apartment starts to shake: pictures on the wall, the box on the closet, the alarm clock.
Viktor lies in the bed. Teresa stands in front of the closet and tries to put on her old, elegant red dress. Viktor doesn't pay attention to Teresa and reads a newspaper. The dress is too small, but Teresa seems not to care.
Suddenly, a box with photographs falls out of the closet. The photos spread all over the floor. Viktor catches one showing them dancing when they were young. The people on this photo get in motion. They start to dance to the music from downstairs.
Teresa, in her small dress, and Viktor, in his pyjamas, start dancing clumsily. While they try to do a dip, they fall on the floor. The band downstairs stops playing. The people in the club clap their hands.
Viktor and Teresa lie on the floor. They are happy. They feel that the ovation coming from downstairs is meant for them.
They are tired and bored by their long relationship. They are ordinary, overweight people.
That night, Raz Dwa Trzy plays in the club. Teresa and Viktor cannot sleep because of the loud music coming from the club downstairs. They do not know why, but they are in need of music which takes them away from their boring lives.
Viktor and Teresa lie next to each other in the bed of their bedroom. Viktor is smoking a cigarette.
Teresa tells him to turn off the tap in the bathroom. Viktor goes angrily into the bathroom. He makes strange faces in front of the mirror. Teresa is curious about what Viktor is doing. She spies on him.
Teresa and Viktor meet each other at the door of the bathroom. Both can not fit through the door-frame. Their plasticine colors mix with each other; Viktor's white shirt mixes with Teresa's yellow chemise. Both try to clean themself by pushing the other plasticine color away from their clothes.
The music coming from downstairs gets louder. The apartment starts to shake: pictures on the wall, the box on the closet, the alarm clock.
Viktor lies in the bed. Teresa stands in front of the closet and tries to put on her old, elegant red dress. Viktor doesn't pay attention to Teresa and reads a newspaper. The dress is too small, but Teresa seems not to care.
Suddenly, a box with photographs falls out of the closet. The photos spread all over the floor. Viktor catches one showing them dancing when they were young. The people on this photo get in motion. They start to dance to the music from downstairs.
Teresa, in her small dress, and Viktor, in his pyjamas, start dancing clumsily. While they try to do a dip, they fall on the floor. The band downstairs stops playing. The people in the club clap their hands.
Viktor and Teresa lie on the floor. They are happy. They feel that the ovation coming from downstairs is meant for them.
Characters
Teresa, Viktor
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Izabela Plucinska
Producing
- Producer
- Izabela Plucinska (Co-Producer)
- Executive Producer
- Jamila Wenske
- Executive Co-Producer
- Holger Lochau
Writing
- Writer
- Justyna Celeda, Izabela Plucinska
- Play
- Maciej Z. Bordowicz
Animation
- Animator
- Izabela Plucinska
Voices
- Voice
- Ewa Szykulska, Wiktor Zborowski
Music
- Music
- Raz Dwa Trzy (Song "It's Worth to Live Anyway")
Editing
- Editor
- Dirk Schreier
Crew
- Cinematography
- Izabela Plucinska
- Sound
- Michal Dominowski
- Sound Designers
- Rolf Holowenko, Martin Kautsch, Klaus-Peter Schmitt
- Sound Mixer
- Alexander Schaefer
- Idea
- Maciej Zenon Bordowicz
- Members of Raz Dwa Trzy
- Adam Nowak, Grzegorz Szwalek, Jacek Olejarz, Jaroslaw Trelinski, Miroslaw Kowalik
- Text
- Adam Nowak
- Dialogue
- Anna Jadowska, Silke Kaiser
- Foley Artist
- Günter Röhn
Production notes
Plasticine animation.
Izabela Plucinska's debut as a director.
Release date is that of exhibition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Izabela Plucinska's debut as a director.
Release date is that of exhibition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Awards
Silver Berlin Bear, Best Short Film, Berlin International Film Festival.
Nominee, Golden Berlin Bear, Best Short Film, Berlin International Film Festival
Nominee, Golden Berlin Bear, Best Short Film, Berlin International Film Festival