Within

Within is an animated work created in collage technique in characteristic, surreal style. In kind of visual suite it depicts inside feeling, emotional and mental stages of experiencing fear, stress, curiosity, passion, getting lost, identification or calmness and reaching stability. All the characters represents in symbolic way a specific feeling or memory connected with author’s subconscious but could be understood differently depending on viewers interpretation. The film is kind of oneiric journey in time and was created in artistic process including things known and unknown. As the mirrors in the animation it can reflect the creator’s or the viewer’s mind …or simply can take in to cross to the other side of imaginative world. Everyone has an inner world, you just need to connect.

Ari Dykier
Ari Dyker is visual artist based in Poland. He attended Camerimage Film School and most of his career works as filmmaker. With passion for animated works he focused himself on creating animated visuals and since 2013 frequently takes a part in festivals like Live Performers Meeting(Cape Town,Rome,Amsterdam), Visual Brasil (Barcelona), Generate!(Tübingen), Patchlab (Kraków),B-Seite (Mannheim), ROM (Budapest), Nokta Festival (Opole), Kyiv Lights Festival, Spektrum(Berlin),Live Cinema Festival(Rome), SP Urban Digital Festival(São Paulo) ,Jerusalem Light Festival (2019), Dour Festival(2019),Nokta 2019, Circle of Light, Art Vision 2019 Moscow,Light Move Festival 2019 Łódź , Cinematica Festival 2021 Ancona,Festa das Luzes de Joinville, Brazil 2022,Map&Fold Festival Tübingen 2022, Live Performers Meeting 2022,Fulldome Festival Jena 2022, Zsolnay Light Festival 2022,FILE 2022 São Paulo In 2017 and 2018 he made a project creating visuals for concerts of renowned polish baroque orchestra Arte dei Suonatori. His works refers to tradition of surreal animation and wide range of art genres. Through the visuals made from vintage illustrations he attempts to recreate experience of dream and oneiric reality taking inspiration from childhood fairy tales, movies, paintings, books or music. As a self-taught animator he uses digital techniques to create his content but also gives a try to traditional, hand drawing animation.