Spring from „The Four Seasons”

Film impression inspired by the music of Antonio Vivaldi made in the mixed animation technique. The subject of a musical piece serves as a pretext for an allegorical story of the conception of human file and achieving maturity. A colourful butterfly flies out of an eye and diffuses with a man’s face. Another butterfly sits on orchid, merges with it and then it transpires that this is a woman’s face. Both faces join together. After a while the camera follows a tiny seed rushing into matter. The seed begins to grow rapidly and turns into a human embryo. From that moment images on blocks – puzzles start changing very fast showing life from the moment of birth, through first steps taken by a child and learning about the world to full maturity.

Directed, screenplay, artwork and animated by Wiesław Bober
Music composed by Antonio Vivaldi (Concerto No. 1 in E major Op. 8 No. 1 Allegro)
Music performed by Polish Radio & Television Chamber Orchestra – Poznań
Conducted by Agnieszka Duczmal, Jerzy Milewski – violin
Photography by Krzysztof Szyszka
Editing and sound by Wiesław Nowak
Produced by Ewa Sobolewska
Combined animation, 35 mm, colour, 110 m, 04:00′, format 4:3
Date of production: 15.10.1991 © TV SFA-TVP SA

AWARD:
DIPLOMA for the film direction, International Festival of Animated Films for Children – Biennial of Animation BAB’99, Bratislava, Slovakia / 1999