Galaxi Taxi
Director Jan Steliżuk Animation Director Paweł Dębski Script Jan Steliżuk Storyboard Jan Steliżuk Wojciech Wojtkowski Visual Art Jan Steliżuk Set Scene Anna Steliżuk Jan Steliżuk Compositing Paweł Dębski Piotr Furmankiewicz Mateusz Michalak Jan Steliżuk Editing Piotr Furmankiewicz Mateusz Michalak Music Łukasz Targosz | Animation Lucas Bicalho Aleksandra Bodek Bartosz Brzeziński Agnieszka Burszewska Paweł Dębski Maciej Fechner Gabriela Filipek-Pyszko Grażyna Firląg Paweł Garbacz Joanna Godlewska Dawid Jezierski Damian Krakowiak Maria Kulpa Janusz Matusik Artur Mąka Katarzyna Melnyk Agata Mianowska Paula Nędzarek Tomasz Nowik Magdalena Orzech Michał Orzechowski Anna Steliżuk Beata Strzelecka Józef Trzaska Wojciech Wojtkowski Grzegorz Zarębski Digitoonz Adam Domaniewski | Clean Up Małgorzata Basiak Daria Brzezińska Wojciech Cacek Joanna Godlewska Dawid Jezierski Paula Nędzarek Anna Olak Michał Rostek Katarzyna Rzędzian Olga Siwecka Anna Steliżuk Sound System Music Production Studio Spot Synchronous effects Music Production Studio Spot Production Manager Maria Deskur Piotr Furmankiewicz Mateusz Michalak Production Cooperation Jan Ptasiński Producer Piotr Furmankiewicz Mateusz Michalak | Coproducer Jan Steliżuk Production Fumi Studio Coproduction National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute Co-financing Polish Film Institute Voice Over Grzegorz Drojewski Grzegorz Pawlak Miriam Aleksandrowicz Jarosław Boberek Bogusław Kaczmarczyk Mikołaj Klimek Weronika Łukaszewska |
THE STORY
Although ”Galaxi Taxi” is located in outer space, there are no cosmic superheroes, no malicious brains in jars, no shiny crystals burning enemies to ash, and no explosions (unless we count emotions). The universe feels more like an underfunded, homely village, with its share of vices, village savants and village idiots. There’s just a muddy Milky Way, broken heating, and cosmic gravel showering the taxi.The three quarrelsome protagonists – the Alien (pilot), a stuffed clockwork Rabbit (engineer) and an apple Worm (navigator) – roam the universe in their rickety taxi searching for passengers. Every ride is nothing like they expected, evolving into a series of improbable, curious, sometimes even unfortunate events.
The show is populated by a constant group of secondary characters, usually animal in form, appearing in different configurations in each episode and given different roles every time. In each episode there’s a different passenger, with a heavy baggage of issues. Those issues quickly become problems of the Taxi team, as they will usually selflessly try and help the passenger resolve them.
Every episode has a double ending, a twist appearing when the end credits are about to roll. This twist is usually a minor disaster for the three protagonists. What’s more, it turns out they run a money-losing business as their passengers always manage not to pay.
The never-ending string of failures fails to teach the protagonists anything; the opening credits always have them enthusiastically answering the call of yet another client.