// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was Fallen Art painting sad? It was a brush with failure.

Fallen Art
Original poster
Directed by	Tomasz Bagiński
Written by	Tomasz Bagiński
Produced by	Jarek Sawko Piotr Sikora Tomasz Bagiński
Starring	Arkadiusz Jakubik Marcin Kudelka Dariusz Toczek
Music by	Fanfare Ciocărlia
Release date	2004 (2004)
Running time	6 minutes
Country	Poland
Language	Polish

Fallen Art (Polish Sztuka spadania, lit. The Art of Falling) is a six-minute, animated short film written and directed by Tomasz Bagiński. It features Romanian band Fanfare Ciocărlia's song "Asfalt Tango." The film was produced and created by Platige Image, a VFX company. Fallen Art received the Jury Honors at the SIGGRAPH 2005 Computer Animation Festival, and in 2006, it received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.

Summary

The short opens on a platoon of soldiers awaiting their sergeant's instructions at the top of a ramshackle tower. When the order is given from below, he calls up a single soldier, proudly awards him a medal, and then pushes him off the edge to fall in a particular position onto an asphalt square. A photograph of the corpse is then brought to the leader of the operation; a retired musician, revealed to be commissioning the macabre photographs as individual frames of a deranged stop-motion project depicting a soldier dancing to one of his songs. He runs the unfinished animation in front of an empty theatre, tearfully reliving his glory days before sobering up and giving the go-ahead for the next "frame" to be produced.

External links

• Fallen Art - Platige Shorts
• Fallen Art at IMDb
• CGSociety Interview