In an intimate portrait of the city and its people, the director first introduces
the characters in the NYC subway and then follows them to the surface
in order to find out more about their lives, cravings, passions, hopes and
dreams – sometimes lost and sometimes still waiting to be discovered.
While Stasik’s latest picture betrays echoes of avant-gardist fascination with
a pulsating town organism, he is obviously more interested in what’s going
on under the surface – both literally and figuratively. The author sketches
fleeting portraits of people in frenetic sequences, only to develop their characters
through open and honest testimonies featured on an asynchronous
soundtrack. The outcome is an emotional tale of solitude that haunts us in
21st century western world.
21 x New York
21 x Nowy Jork
- Year:
- 2016
- Runtime:
- 71 min.
- Country:
- Poland
- Director:
- Piotr Stasik
- Screenplay:
- Piotr Stasik
- Dir. of Photography:
- Piotr Stasik
- Editor:
- Dorota Wardęszkiewicz, Tomasz Wolski, Piotr Stasik
- Production:
- Lava Films, Telewizja Polska S.A.
- Sales:
- Lava Films
- Festivals:
- Valladolid 2016, Krakow 2016, DOK Leipzig 2016, Poland’s official nomination for European Film Awards
Schedule:
14.11.2016
13:30
Kino Mladosť
17.11.2016
15:45
Kino Mladosť
About the Director:
Piotr Stasik
Piotr Stasik (1976) graduated from the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw and later completed a documentary course at Wajda School in Warsaw. He co–founded Association for Artistic Initiatives „ę“, an NGO that focuses on supporting cultural undertakings in small towns. His short and mid– length films such as 7 x Moscow, A Diary of a Journey or The Last Day of Summer have been well received and awarded at prestigious documentary film festivals around Europe