The Adventures of the Blindworm: An Orthographic Short Story by Stanisław Lem

Описание: Sci-fi master Stanisław Lem’s little known ‘Dyktanda’ was a series of fiendishly fun writing exercises for his young nephew. Culture.pl brings one of them to life in this short animation using the art style from its book ‘Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Words’.

Learn more about Lem’s writing exercises: https://culture.pl/en/article/humorou...
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‘The Adventures of the Blindworm’ is the first of three animations planned for the first half of 2021, the action each set in ‘the amazing land of Quarks, Elephants and Pierogi’. All three videos show the Polish language from the perspective of its characteristic phenomena (Polish orthography taking centre-stage in this first animation) and through the prism of the works of the most outstanding authors of Polish literature.

Story: Stanisław Lem
Translation: Google Translate
Illustrations & art direction: Magda Burdzyńska
Animation: Łukasz Dudasz / Grupa Autograf
Concept & screenplay: Mikołaj Gliński
Co-editor: Adam Żuławski
Narration: John Beauchamp
Sound effects: Katarzyna Walczak
Sound editor: Wojciech Oleksiak
Idea & production: Sylwia Jabłońska
Copyright for the story: Michał Zych / the Stanisław Lem estate
Produced by Culture.pl / Adam Mickiewicz Institute