The Hat

Duško doesn't appear so sociable. In a dark rainy city, he walks toward the factory. Near the building there is a street musician who plays the piano. Duško leaves him two coins, but one does not fall into the hat. Duško, no matter enters the building that is entirely adorned with smiling portraits. He sits at the desk and starts up the old printer. After some time the printer gets stuck and Duško get more and more angry tryng to find a solution. The room suddenly fell silent. The boss fires him, that's a factory of smiles after all. Duško finds himself in front of the factory near the pianist. Seeing his coin on the floor. Secretly approaches the hat, trying to find more coins. But the hat sucks him in transporting him into the colorful world of art where Duško rediscovers happiness. But the moment doesn't last very long. He finds himself sitting at the piano in front of the factory and sadly tryies to play the piano. In a sudden a sweet and sincere smile begins to form on his face.

Director’s statement
The short animated film "The Hat" is a tragicomic story that will be visually and framed like silent films and cartoons from the early 20th century. The inspiration came after reading Gogol's The overcoat and from Gogol's thinking about the art.
So, from the logline we can understand how the art can change everyone's point of view to see the life.
"A frustrated clerk from a devastated bureaucratic world discovers the world of art through the hat of a street musician and regains hope."
Nowadays, we are increasingly grappling with political correctness, and I believe that animation in form of art, has the genuine power to convey and teach many things. In my opinion, art is one of the strongest and most important virtues of humanity, and without it, everyday life would be dull. Because of this, the clerk spiritually resists the world and servitude in the first part of the film, while in the second part, he discovers a new world in which he gains confidence and inner joy.