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The Earth Will Swallow it All

Ziemia wchłonie to wszystko

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.

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Country of Origin

Poland

Year

2022

Language

In Polish with English subtitles

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9 min

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Credits

Producer

Dominik Ritszel

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Dominik Ritszel

Editor

Dominik Ritszel

Director

Dominik Ritszel headshot, The Earth Will Swallow it All 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.