Bio
Born in Lublin. She received her M.F.A. degree in animated film in 2003 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. In 2011, she received her doctoral degree from Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. In 2019, she received a postdoctoral degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and a professorship from PJAIT in Warsaw. Since 2005, she has been a lecturer in animated film at the Department of Digital Media Art, Faculty of Arts at Maria-Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, and since 2010 at the Department of New Media Art at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw. He publishes articles in collective publications describing his experiences in the field of workshop activities (2014, 2015) and scientific work considering, among others, the author's position for people lying in hospital conditions (2020).
She has repeatedly served on the jury of competitions and festivals in Poland as well as Serbia, Slovenia and Russia.
Joanna Polak works mainly in the field of film animation, simultaneous video installation and film therapy. In her works she avoids literalism in favor of mental shortcuts combined with a surreal vision of the World. She is fascinated by both the content and the matter of film itself. Constantly experimenting in animation, she uses dozens of variations of traditional and digital techniques, for which she uses materials often with sophisticated texture or unobvious color. Her films have been screened at more than 900 presentations, festivals and TV channels (Europe, Asia, USA). Her works have won 70 awards and prizes (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, USA, Belarus, Croatia, Russia, Ireland, Italy, India). She is the director of more than 100 films mainly animated.
Filmography
2021 - Furniture
2018 - Woolf
2014 - Portraits
2011 - 2015 - 4 parts "Collection of Legends of Lublin"
2011 - Hotel Mirage
2010 - 2025 - 38 films - "Film Collection of Fairy Tales - Tales of the Borderland"
2009 - GLOBAL CO.
2008 - Made In China
2003 - Beetle
