JOANNA CZADOWSKA

THE WICKED WITCH'S TALES OF SPELLS

2012-01-21T08:34:00.000-08:00

An exploration of 4 mood pieces, introducing a magical book.

Direction: Joanna Czadowska
Design /Animation/ Compositing: Joanna Czadowska
Camera /Direction of photography: Christian Pomerleau
Music: "Castle on the hill'' by Danny Elfman

SUSPENDED TIME

2012-01-18T08:37:00.001-08:00

A visit to Trimurti, the three-headed hindu god. Between Brahma and Siva is Visnu,
the preserver, as between past and future is the present. Visnu is outside of time
– it is transcendence and eternity, the continuum, the experience of the present that we
call "now".

IIlustration/ Animation/ Direction: Joanna Czadowska
Music: Danny Elfman

NOUS

2012-01-17T19:00:00.000-08:00

Videoclip created for the song Nous, interpreted by quebecois musician Eric Belanger, featuring on his 2008 album "Banana Spleen"

Illustration/ Animation/ Direction: Joanna Czadowska
Storyboard/ Post-production: Kartel Film
Production: Buck Creatives
Original music: Eric Bélanger
Client: Eric Bélanger

METROPOLIS

2012-01-17T16:30:00.000-08:00

Inspired by Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). Animation built of photographs, hand drawn images, original video and computer generated particles. It was part of an installation broadcasted in the main hall of W Hotel, Montreal, for the 5th anniversary of the Wunderbar.
Projection size: 56' width x 18' Height.

Animation/Compositing: Gridspace
Design/Additional animation: Joanna Czadowska
Photography: Zendreamer
Soundtrack: Hecq "Flying Fear"
Client: W Hotel

Event's Documentary

''Femme Robot'' was part of the installation

KANATA: HEARTBEAT OF A NATION

2012-01-17T15:14:00.000-08:00

Promotional video for KA'NATA's tour, a show uniting musicians from different origins, celebrating canadian cultural diversity.

Illustration: Pascale Crête
Motion design: Joanna Czadowska
Creative direction/ production: Lucion Media
Original music: KA'NATA
Client: KA'NATA

POÉSIE EN MOUVEMENT

2012-01-17T14:18:00.000-08:00

"Poésie en mouvement" is one of the six collective films that Bob agency curated from NOMADS, to celebrate the opening of the SIX, an “art bar” in the Hyatt Montreal. Each
film is about a different art form: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance and literature. The content was made custom for a 32'×9' wide screen, located in the hotel's lobby.

Direction: Victorine Yokthot Sentilhes
Animation and co-direction: Joanna Czadowska
Direction of Photography : Sharif Mirshak
Agencies: Nomad Industries/ Bob
Client: Hyatt Regency

RÉMY GIRARD & GAUVREAU

2012-01-17T13:22:00.000-08:00

Animated video backdrop created for the show Rémy Girard enchansonne Claude Gauvreau, interpreted by Remy Girard at Usine C theatre. The content was inspired
by Claude Gauvreau's paintings and the automatist movement.

Design, animation, broadcast: Gridspace
Additionnal design, animation: Joanna Czadowska
Client: Les Quêteux Lunaires/ Usine C

GOGO

2012-01-17T12:00:00.000-08:00

This is a a promotional video for wireless network use on American Airlines.The Gogo internet network has wired the entire continental United States for skyward Wi-Fi; it's the birth of the world's first wireless broadband network for inflight connectivity. Air travelers on Gogo equipped flights can get online using their laptops, smartphones, and other Wi-Fi enabled devices and watch hundreds of movies, latest tv shows, games, music and more.

Agency: Artifex Animation Studios / Phenomblue
Illustration: Phenomblue
Motion Design: Joanna Czadowska
Client: Gogo

ROTARY

2012-01-17T10:33:00.000-08:00

Video created for Rotary's 90th anniversary in France. Rotary is one of the biggest world organisations working for humanity's progress. The movement counts today over 1,2 million members and 35 000 clubs. Since 1928, The Rotary Foundation coordinates its educational and humanitarian programs internationally and intervenes in 4 major fields: prevention of illiteracy, humanitarian actions, youth programs and fight against Polio.

Agency: Galaxie Communication
Design/Creative direction : Groupe 361
Animation: Joanna Czadowska
Client: Rotary International - Le Rotarien

BLACK DAHLIA PERFUME

2012-01-17T09:39:00.000-08:00

Concept for a 15 sec perfume advertisement

Illustration/ animation: Joanna Czadowska
Sound: Gridspace
Client: Buck Creatives

MIDNIGHT RAMBLE

2012-01-17T09:00:00.000-08:00

Midnight Ramble is a dive into a dream, into a person's mystery, and into the cycle of life.
It's a moving still, created from one continuous drawing. Screened at the 2005 World Film Festival, Focus on world cinema category.

Illustration/Animation/Direction: Joanna Czadowska
Music: "Recuerdos" by Murcoff

ROCK & ROSE

2012-01-14T08:36:00.001-08:00

ROCK&ROSE - 13 covers were illustrated for this teen-graphic novel, written by Marie-Hélène Poitras, published by Courte Échelle. Each episode contains a 2-page comic strip.

Juliette and Simone are two 16 year-olds, with dreams, determination and a bit of naivete. The mysterious Simone wants to become a guitarist and make it in the rock world. Juliette, the extrovert, dreams of instant fame. A story of friendship and coming of age experiences.

Text: Marie-Hélene Poitras

Illustrations: Joanna Czadowska

Artistic direction: Jean-François Lejeune

Client: Les Éditions de la Courte Echelle

Books are available in Quebec (Renaud-Bray, Archambault) and France (Librairies Dialogues)Visit Epizzod.com

STUDIUM

2012-01-13T18:00:00.000-08:00

STUDIUM - Covers illustrated for polish national literary journal
Client: Green Owl Publishing House

Books only available in Poland
Independent.pl
Katalog.czasopism.pl

AMAZONE DESIGNS

2012-01-13T17:40:00.000-08:00

Promotional poster for fashion line

TELETOON'S PUNCH

2012-01-13T17:25:00.000-08:00

''Aired on TELETOON at night, Punch is a send-up of pop culture for teen and adult audiences. No musician, sports star, actor or super-hero is safe from the staff of Punch, a tabloid magazine dedicated to uncovering salacious stories and scandals.
Using a unique cut-out paste style animation, Punch follows the staff of the magazine as they come to terms with their new editor as well as animating the outrageous magazine
features and stories in quick-fire sketches. This animated family series uses poignant parody, to slap a crack at everyone and everything previously held sacred. A TELETOON Original Production with Montreal based Kiwi Animation. '' (article by zanesmall.com)

Agency: Kiwi Animation

Client: Teletoon
Set & character design: Joanna Czadowska

CIRQUE ELOIZE

2012-01-13T17:23:00.000-08:00

Character design excerpts supporting the Aritra screenplay presented to Cirque Eloize

Screenplay: GPA Films
Illustration: Joanna Czadowska
Client: Cirque Eloize

STORYBOARDS

2012-01-12T17:15:00.000-08:00

Excerpts of storyboards: Persephone, The Interrogation scene, Pellegrino Castronovo Couture

PORTRAITS

2012-01-11T11:00:00.000-08:00

HUIS CLOS (theatre poster proposition)
Summing up Sarte's play in one image: the other's eyes are mirrors, reflecting our self-knowledge, whether through good or bad relations. We can stay trapped in someone
else's judgement and forget to take responsability for our own actions.

"-Voulez-vous que je vous serve de miroir? Venez, je vous invite chez moi (...)
Regarde dans mes yeux, est-ce que tu t'y vois?
- Je suis toute petite, je me vois très mal.
- Je te vois moi, toute entière!
Pose-moi des questions, aucun miroir ne sera plus fidèle"
(Huis Clos, acte II, scène 5)

TRIMURTI
Inspired by the 19 feet high statue, from 8th century B.C., found in the Elephanta caves, Mumbai. With its 3 divine heads, Trimurti represents the hindu concept of trinity. The left
face is Brahma, the creator; the center face is Visnu, the preserver; on the right is Siva,
the destroyer. The left and right side are the field of time, always reflecting duality: right
and wrong, past and future, female and male, life and death...The center face is the
present; the outside of time and thought – symbolising transcendence or eternity.

This version of Trimurti has also 7 chakras: the root chakra, the sacral chakra, the solar plexus, the heart, the throat, the third eye and the crown chakra.

34x48 pencil & digital drawing

INCEPTION

Stealing the spinning the top - is my reality a dream? Inspired by C.Nolan's film

POSSSESSED

NOBODY'S DAUGHTER

A portrait of Courtney Love - or of blossoming decay, beautiful dreadfulness, a ravenous
little bird, a lethal story on the edge of raw energy.

INTROVERT'S OUBURST

Through the paintbrush - a way to communicate when words can't come out

ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS

2012-01-11T10:54:00.000-08:00

FROM FATHER TO SON
In some places war is passed on and children carry the burden of the ''real game'' to play

LAWS OF FREEDOM
"Mama, queria ver al otro lado de las montanas" writes Maria on a postcard to her mom
- her only way to leave Colombia is by serving as a drug mule. Inspired by the film
Maria full of grace, by Joshua Marston

PENDING DECISION
Questioning UN's intervention in lapidation cases

FUTURE BRIDE

Dancing the last piece of freedom, before submitting to a forced marriage

Client: Canadian Museum for human rights