Aleksandra Korejwo

Directing

Aleksandra Korejwo

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Director, screenwriter, poet, painter, violinist, visual artist, and animator, Aleksandra Korejwo (born June 14, 1958 in Poznań, Poland) creates her films using her own unique animation technique, using loose matter (hand-colored salts, depending on the film's color palette), directly under the camera. She has received over 40 awards, distinctions, and nominations at national and international festivals, as well as diplomas of recognition, including such prestigious awards for her original loose matter animated films. Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association, member of ASIFA, and since 2019, member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her original films made at the TV Anima…

Known for

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Romanze Andante poster
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Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from Serenade in G major KV 525, performed by Polish Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Romanze Andante

1991

The Spinner poster
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A miniature film set to classical music. A cart drives down a gray city street. Behind the houses, instead of the sun, a spinning wheel emerges, from which a broken thread falls into a nearby puddle. A little girl runs down the street. Suddenly, she stumbles and falls into the puddle. Tears from the animated houses fall into the puddle. The drops of tears "revive" the thread, which transforms into a fairy-tale skein and weaves a new dress for the girl. A spinner with a spinning wheel appears and weaves colorful strands around everything. Flowers bloom in the windows of the houses, and the gray walls are covered with vivid colors. The girl, carried by the skein, soars above the houses of what is now a colorful town.

The Spinner

1989

No artwork available
NR

Animation in loose matter - colored salts directly under the camera. Screenplay based on a poem by Julian Tuwim.

A Difficult Calculation

1988

The Swan poster
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A film miniature set to classical music by Camille Saint-Saëns, animated in loose matter with colored salt directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. From the undefined matter, the figure of a dancing girl emerges, soon transforming into a swan. From the rippling water, the swan takes flight, then seamlessly transforms back into a girl. The girl's dance and the bird's flight intertwine. The girl is enchanted into a swan, the swan enchanted into a girl. Their shapes merge, creating a unity.

The Swan

1990

Carmen Habanera poster
7.0

A film miniature set to classical music, inspired by Georges Bizet's "Carmen" suite, orchestrated by Rodion Shchedrin, animated in loose matter (colored salt) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. The music is fully synchronized with the image. The sounds of the music awaken Carmen from her sleep. Her silhouette is illuminated by a nearby bonfire. In this expressive dance, elements of Andalusian gypsy folklore (flamenco) choreographically intertwine with the passionate symbolism of Carmen's gestures. It's the second film in a trilogy.

Carmen Habanera

1995

Butterfly poster
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Amazing and iridiscent film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for United Airlines, Locomotion Channel.

Butterfly

2008

Behind the camera

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Romanze Andante poster
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Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from Serenade in G major KV 525, performed by Polish Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Romanze Andante

1991

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Romanze Andante poster
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Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from Serenade in G major KV 525, performed by Polish Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Romanze Andante

1991

The Spinner poster
NR

A miniature film set to classical music. A cart drives down a gray city street. Behind the houses, instead of the sun, a spinning wheel emerges, from which a broken thread falls into a nearby puddle. A little girl runs down the street. Suddenly, she stumbles and falls into the puddle. Tears from the animated houses fall into the puddle. The drops of tears "revive" the thread, which transforms into a fairy-tale skein and weaves a new dress for the girl. A spinner with a spinning wheel appears and weaves colorful strands around everything. Flowers bloom in the windows of the houses, and the gray walls are covered with vivid colors. The girl, carried by the skein, soars above the houses of what is now a colorful town.

The Spinner

1989

The Spinner poster
NR

A miniature film set to classical music. A cart drives down a gray city street. Behind the houses, instead of the sun, a spinning wheel emerges, from which a broken thread falls into a nearby puddle. A little girl runs down the street. Suddenly, she stumbles and falls into the puddle. Tears from the animated houses fall into the puddle. The drops of tears "revive" the thread, which transforms into a fairy-tale skein and weaves a new dress for the girl. A spinner with a spinning wheel appears and weaves colorful strands around everything. Flowers bloom in the windows of the houses, and the gray walls are covered with vivid colors. The girl, carried by the skein, soars above the houses of what is now a colorful town.

The Spinner

1989

No artwork available
NR

Animation in loose matter - colored salts directly under the camera. Screenplay based on a poem by Julian Tuwim.

A Difficult Calculation

1988

No artwork available
NR

Animation in loose matter - colored salts directly under the camera. Screenplay based on a poem by Julian Tuwim.

A Difficult Calculation

1988

The Swan poster
NR

A film miniature set to classical music by Camille Saint-Saëns, animated in loose matter with colored salt directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. From the undefined matter, the figure of a dancing girl emerges, soon transforming into a swan. From the rippling water, the swan takes flight, then seamlessly transforms back into a girl. The girl's dance and the bird's flight intertwine. The girl is enchanted into a swan, the swan enchanted into a girl. Their shapes merge, creating a unity.

The Swan

1990

The Swan poster
NR

A film miniature set to classical music by Camille Saint-Saëns, animated in loose matter with colored salt directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. From the undefined matter, the figure of a dancing girl emerges, soon transforming into a swan. From the rippling water, the swan takes flight, then seamlessly transforms back into a girl. The girl's dance and the bird's flight intertwine. The girl is enchanted into a swan, the swan enchanted into a girl. Their shapes merge, creating a unity.

The Swan

1990

Carmen Habanera poster
7.0

A film miniature set to classical music, inspired by Georges Bizet's "Carmen" suite, orchestrated by Rodion Shchedrin, animated in loose matter (colored salt) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. The music is fully synchronized with the image. The sounds of the music awaken Carmen from her sleep. Her silhouette is illuminated by a nearby bonfire. In this expressive dance, elements of Andalusian gypsy folklore (flamenco) choreographically intertwine with the passionate symbolism of Carmen's gestures. It's the second film in a trilogy.

Carmen Habanera

1995

Carmen Habanera poster
7.0

A film miniature set to classical music, inspired by Georges Bizet's "Carmen" suite, orchestrated by Rodion Shchedrin, animated in loose matter (colored salt) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. The music is fully synchronized with the image. The sounds of the music awaken Carmen from her sleep. Her silhouette is illuminated by a nearby bonfire. In this expressive dance, elements of Andalusian gypsy folklore (flamenco) choreographically intertwine with the passionate symbolism of Carmen's gestures. It's the second film in a trilogy.

Carmen Habanera

1995

Butterfly poster
NR

Amazing and iridiscent film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for United Airlines, Locomotion Channel.

Butterfly

2008

Butterfly poster
NR

Amazing and iridiscent film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for United Airlines, Locomotion Channel.

Butterfly

2008

Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III) D. 839 poster
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A film miniature set to classical music. Schubert's soulful music inspired the artist to create a peaceful and reflective film based on her personal interpretation of El Greco's paintings: The Annunciation, The Madonna and Child, The Merciful Virgin, Pietà and The Assumption. A short animation film with colored salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music performed by Kaja Danczowska on violin and Janusz Olejniczak on piano.

Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III) D. 839

1990

Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III) D. 839 poster
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A film miniature set to classical music. Schubert's soulful music inspired the artist to create a peaceful and reflective film based on her personal interpretation of El Greco's paintings: The Annunciation, The Madonna and Child, The Merciful Virgin, Pietà and The Assumption. A short animation film with colored salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music performed by Kaja Danczowska on violin and Janusz Olejniczak on piano.

Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III) D. 839

1990

Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 16 poster
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Article 16. Rights of the child. Right to protection of private, family and home life. 1. No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honour and reputation. 2. The child has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. Short film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo.

Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 16

1997

On the Beautiful Blue Danube poster
5.0

A film miniature set to classical music. On the banks of the Danube, a girl recalls moments spent with her beloved, especially the ball and the waltz to Strauss's music. Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo.

On the Beautiful Blue Danube

1993

On the Beautiful Blue Danube poster
5.0

A film miniature set to classical music. On the banks of the Danube, a girl recalls moments spent with her beloved, especially the ball and the waltz to Strauss's music. Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo.

On the Beautiful Blue Danube

1993

Carmen Torero poster
6.2

A film miniature set to classical music. The Spanish landscape, allusively evoked on screen, is dominated by characteristic elements of Gaudí's architecture. From these elements emerges the arena, with the figure of a fighting bullfighter. The appearance of Carmen introduces a lyrical thread. A passionate love develops between her and the bullfighter. Utterly astounding, iridescent salt animation by Aleksandra Korejwo based around Bizet's Carmen, the third and final film in a trilogy.

Carmen Torero

1996

Carmen Torero poster
6.2

A film miniature set to classical music. The Spanish landscape, allusively evoked on screen, is dominated by characteristic elements of Gaudí's architecture. From these elements emerges the arena, with the figure of a fighting bullfighter. The appearance of Carmen introduces a lyrical thread. A passionate love develops between her and the bullfighter. Utterly astounding, iridescent salt animation by Aleksandra Korejwo based around Bizet's Carmen, the third and final film in a trilogy.

Carmen Torero

1996

La Danse Macabre poster
6.0

A beautifully animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns' piece, 'Danse Macabre', animated by Aleksandra Korejwo and directed by Kazimierz Urbański.

La Danse Macabre

1990

Freedom and Unfreedom poster
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Freedom and Unfreedom unfolds in a single two-and-a-half-minute take. In a moody, dialogue-free piece, a single African-American figure appears in an abstract landscape, dancing among multicolored energy fields. The limbless, spiritless figure dances back and forth, only to be joined by another. Suddenly, dissonant phrases emerge as a hard gray boundary descends between them, and soon more and more walls begin to collapse around the figure until it is completely trapped in a small box, roughly the size and level of the compartments in which slaves were transported from Africa to America. Segment and first part of the film Suite from Freedom (2004).

Freedom and Unfreedom

2004

Freedom and Unfreedom poster
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Freedom and Unfreedom unfolds in a single two-and-a-half-minute take. In a moody, dialogue-free piece, a single African-American figure appears in an abstract landscape, dancing among multicolored energy fields. The limbless, spiritless figure dances back and forth, only to be joined by another. Suddenly, dissonant phrases emerge as a hard gray boundary descends between them, and soon more and more walls begin to collapse around the figure until it is completely trapped in a small box, roughly the size and level of the compartments in which slaves were transported from Africa to America. Segment and first part of the film Suite from Freedom (2004).

Freedom and Unfreedom

2004

Carmen Suite poster
7.3

A film miniature set to classical music, inspired by Georges Bizet's "Carmen" suite, orchestrated by Rodion Shchedrin, animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. The music is fully synchronized with the image. The film (first in a trilogy) tells the story of a gypsy caravan and Carmen's dreams of ideal love.

Carmen Suite

1994

Carmen Suite poster
7.3

A film miniature set to classical music, inspired by Georges Bizet's "Carmen" suite, orchestrated by Rodion Shchedrin, animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. The music is fully synchronized with the image. The film (first in a trilogy) tells the story of a gypsy caravan and Carmen's dreams of ideal love.

Carmen Suite

1994

Jubilee Concert poster
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Koncert Jubileuszowy (2011) is an animated feature film that combines animation with colored salt, live-action fragments, ballet and poetry by Karol Wojtyła, structured around three works by Frédéric Chopin.

Jubilee Concert

2011

Jubilee Concert poster
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Koncert Jubileuszowy (2011) is an animated feature film that combines animation with colored salt, live-action fragments, ballet and poetry by Karol Wojtyła, structured around three works by Frédéric Chopin.

Jubilee Concert

2011

Jubilee Concert poster
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Koncert Jubileuszowy (2011) is an animated feature film that combines animation with colored salt, live-action fragments, ballet and poetry by Karol Wojtyła, structured around three works by Frédéric Chopin.

Jubilee Concert

2011

No artwork available
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An animated film created using the loose matter technique of colored salts. It is Aleksandra Korejwo's graduation film. In it, the artist presents a historiosophical vision of the Holocaust realized in an abstract manner.

Troja

1984

No artwork available
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An animated film created using the loose matter technique of colored salts. It is Aleksandra Korejwo's graduation film. In it, the artist presents a historiosophical vision of the Holocaust realized in an abstract manner.

Troja

1984

Every Move You Make poster
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Short film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for Sinai Hospital and nominated for various international awards.

Every Move You Make

2002

Every Move You Make poster
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Short film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for Sinai Hospital and nominated for various international awards.

Every Move You Make

2002

Exsultate Jubilate Alleluja poster
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A film miniature to classical music inspired by the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Praise for the joy of life, synchronously set to the vocalization of Mozart's piece. Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo.

Exsultate Jubilate Alleluja

1991

Exsultate Jubilate Alleluja poster
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A film miniature to classical music inspired by the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Praise for the joy of life, synchronously set to the vocalization of Mozart's piece. Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo.

Exsultate Jubilate Alleluja

1991

Suite for Freedom poster
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A trio of short films commissioned to be shown to visitors entering the National Freedom Center in Cincinnati Ohio. Freedom and Unfreedom by Aleksandra Korejwo uses sand animation. Slavery by Caroline Leaf shows the hardship of the life of a house slave in the American South before the Civil War, telling the events in one day in her life. The Underground Railroad by Luc Perez is the final film in the trilogy.

Suite for Freedom

2004

Chopin poster
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Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Nomination for "Best of the World", International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan, 2010.

Chopin

2008

Chopin poster
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Animation in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Nomination for "Best of the World", International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan, 2010.

Chopin

2008

Card Trick poster
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Short film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for Riverwind Casino.

Card Trick

2006

Card Trick poster
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Short film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo. Produced by Acme Filmworks Hollywood for Riverwind Casino.

Card Trick

2006

Impressions poster
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Another iridiscent film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo.

Impressions

1996

Impressions poster
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Another iridiscent film animated in loose matter (colored salts) directly under the camera by Aleksandra Korejwo.

Impressions

1996