Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

8 W POZIOMIE

HORIZONTAL 8

Grzegorz Lipiec
Poland, 2009, 90 Min
Sky Piastowskie

A city in the Poland of the not too distant future: a multicultural metropolis. A modern Tower of Babel... In hotel room number 224 a man awakens and can't remember a thing. By his side stand a suitcase full of money and gun. Suddenly a gust of wind blows a 100 Euro note depicting Pope John Paul II out of the window. The banknote falls to the ground below and so moves from hand to hand, through a labyrinth of human destinies, finally leading to a dramatic secret.

An at times somewhat disorientating film. It begins with a series of concurrent narrative strands, a wealth of scenes that confound the viewer in their change of colour from black to white: why the duet of Santa Claus with the children's home director who deals in drugs with his charges. What does the Arab terrorist have in common with the woman who has been diagnosed as brain dead? They're all a part of the same time warp (or abyss?)... The viewer knows less and less about the world, understands less and less about it.

8 W POZIOMIE is the hitherto biggest production of the independent film group "Sky Piastowskie", named after a new housing estate in Zielona Góra. Filming took three years, spent between Berlin and London as well as Zielona Góra. The film unites hundreds of extras, kilos of pyrotechnics, collisions, gunfights... The amateurs involved received support from professional actors such as Marek Probosz, who recently took part in Agnieszka Holland's remake of Janosik.

Filmformat
BetaSP | Farbe / colour & s/w / b/w
Drehbuch
Grzegorz Lipiec
Kamera
Krzysztof Gawałkiewicz
Ton
Maciej Niedzielski
Schnitt
Grzegorz Lipiec
Ausstattung
Łukasz Mikucki, Ewa Gołębiowska, Maria Kaczmarowska
Musik
Maja Pietraszewska
Darsteller
Ewa Gołębiowska, Tomasz Burka, Ewa Pająk, Jerzy Kaczmarowski, Jarosław Żuk
Produktion
Sky Piastowskie
Kontakt
Sky Piastowskie
ul. Zawadzkiego 14/21
65-530 Zielona Góra
Poland
leepa@poczta.onet.pl
www.skypiastowskie.pl
Grzegorz Lipiec

Grzegorz Lipiec - born 1974 in Zielona Góra, Poland. Completed a correspondance degree course in editing and set design at the PWSFTviT film school in Łódź. Founded the "Sky Piastowskie" film group in 1990 with friends, with whom he has hitherto produced eleven feature films, including his very own ŻE ŻYCIE MA SENS, which was a cinema success in Poland.

Movies
TERMINATOR 3 (1990, short)
JAMES BOND (1991, short)
STAN ODMIENNY (1993)
WAHADŁO (1994, short)
RUCHOMY CEL (1995, short)
TO CO BYŁO, JEST I WCALE NIE MUSI BYĆ (1997, short)
0,5 L (1995, Cottbus 2002)
ŻE ŻYCIE MA SENS (2000, Cottbus 2001)
DZIEŃ, W KTÓRYM UMRĘ (2004, Cottbus 2005)