皮奥特·杜马拉
皮奥特·杜马拉，1956年7月9日生于波兰华沙，为导演、电影剧本作家和动画家。他毕业于华沙艺术大学，学习雕塑和动画，目前在洛兹教书，他也是PLAYING SAFETY RAZORS短篇故事集的作者。
皮奥特·杜马拉是一位有惊人想象力天赋的艺术家，在厚重的石膏板上刮出风格独特的动画作品，风格凝重，极赋艺术感染力。名作《温柔幽灵》《墙》《弗朗茨·卡夫卡》等多次荣获国际奖项，2000年的《罪与罚》是他呕心沥血历时5年完成的巨作，将其无二的风格魅力极致展露。
Born 1956., director, screenplay writer and author of plastic setting of animated cartoons. He graduated from the Faculty of Works of Art Conservation at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and presently he teaches animation in Lodz. He is also the author of a collection of short stories PLAYING SAFETY RAZORS.
Piotr Dumala is an artist gifted with remarkable power of imagination and invention. He managed to add new elements to techniques of animated cartoons - he made use of heavy plaster plates. He is a mysterious and disquieting artist. He chooses devious ways, labor-consuming techniques and pictures with many meanings. The world of his films is saturated with intensive poetic climate, subjected to the principles of light-and-shade effects, blown through and through by fear.
The most important films
* 1985 GENTLE SPIRIT
* 1986 NERVOUS LIFE OF COSMOS
* 1987 WALLS
* 1988 THE FREEDOM OF A LEG
* 1991 FRANZ KAFKA
* 2000 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
In 1991 he received the 1st Prize for the best animated film of the Madrid festival for the film FRANZ KAFKA. In 1992 this film was presented with an award for the Best Animated Cartoon of Europe 1991-1992.
"You can recognize an artist by looking at him, his home and even the neighborhood of this house which all resemble art. And by that the world around becomes similar to the artist. That's the case with Piotr Dumala.". (Tadeusz Sobolewski)
"Painting and repainting, scratching and erasing the same picture the artistarrives at beautiful soft transition between sequences, as well as facture reminding of canvas". (Marcin Gizycki)
"When I make a film I am simply dead. Not only does it consume my time, but also makes me sink. The basement with closed windows I work in becomes my reality.". (Piotr Dumala)