International Premiere
A period of rapid modernization in Poland in the 1990s brought with it anxiety and fears inflicted by hegemonic order and a complete disregard for the social costs or traumatic after-effects.
Poland
2022
In Polish with English subtitles
Featured in:
MODES 1
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Credits
Producer
Dominik Ritszel
ANIM
Dominik Ritszel
Editor
Dominik Ritszel
Director
Dominik Ritszel
Dominik Ritszel lives in Katowice, Poland, and works with film, video installations, and objects. He holds a doctoral degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. He was the recipient of the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award 2015 and his film The Earth Will Swallow it All (2021) won the Polish Experimental Film Competition category at the Short Waves Festival.