{"id":19420,"date":"2025-07-24T03:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19420\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:51:09","slug":"in-slow-light-past-and-present-merge-in-the-uncanny-animated-life-of-a-unique-protagonist-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/19420\/","title":{"rendered":"In &#8216;Slow Light,&#8217; Past and Present Merge in the Uncanny, Animated Life of a Unique Protagonist \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being about seven years old when you suddenly begin to see images from your past as if they were happening now. What if that\u2019s all you could see? In \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1101358773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Slow Light<\/a>,\u201d a short film by Warsaw-based animation studio <a href=\"https:\/\/kijekadamski.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kijek\/Adamski<\/a>, we trace the memories\u2014and visions\u2014of a man whose eyeballs are so dense that it takes seven years for light to pass through them. By the time he sees people and objects right in front of him, the past is perceived in real time and deeply influences how he experiences the present.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Animoon and COLA Animation, the film was created by a team of artists and animators who handmade tiny sets and design elements out of colorful paper and paint. You can even check out a short <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/701975611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">making-of video<\/a> that illustrates some of the techniques the team used. See more on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/kijekadamski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vimeo<\/a> and the studio\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/kijekadamski.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1993\" height=\"1116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/slow-light-3.jpeg\" alt=\"a still from a short animated film showing a young man chiseling at a sculpture\" class=\"wp-image-459180\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1993\" height=\"1122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/slow-light-1.jpeg\" alt=\"a still from a short animated film showing a young man looking into the mirror and seeing a black-and-white image of his mother and himself when he was younger\" class=\"wp-image-459179\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1992\" height=\"1116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/slow-light-2.jpeg\" alt=\"a still from a short animated film showing a young boy sitting on an abstract see-saw across from a smaller, black-and-white version of his younger self\" class=\"wp-image-459182\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Hide advertising<\/p>\n<p>Save your favorite articles<\/p>\n<p>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Receive members-only newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine being about seven years old when you suddenly begin to see images from your past as if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12437,96,12438,2839,12439,6385,12440,56,54,55,5793],"class_list":["post-19420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-blindness","tag-entertainment","tag-kijek-adamski","tag-movies","tag-narrative","tag-paper","tag-senses","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}