MELT
As her body begins to melt in a warming world, M. becomes stranger to herself—mirroring a society dissolving under climate and migration crises, where identity, borders and belonging lose their shape.
M. is the first to begin melting, unable to tolerate the rising temperature. She sticks to furniture and people, yet cannot bear human warmth and closeness. In the background, tiny immigrants— invisible to the city’s other inhabitants — arrive silently and fill the cracks in society, trying to adapt. At the same time, M.’s crisis intensifies, turning her into an immigrant first within her own body, and then within her own home and city. If she wants to stay, she must be regulated: she arrives at a migration office full of paper-pushing bureaucrats and absurd rules. Her melting body conveys the phenomenon — the official, previously perfectly composed, also begins to melt. The order of the scenes does not follow a linear progression. The narrative is guided by the voice of the narrator, M., and functions like a poem, a diary, a series of reflections. At times it stands in counterpoint to the image; at others, it complements it and gives it new meaning.
Country of production
Poland
Target audience
Adults
Animation technique
Stop Motion
Production company
Marmolada FilmsEstimated budget
250,000
Funding secured
We are in the aplication proces (2 aplications made, 1 in a process)
Stage of the project
Script Development (existing treatment)
