“one of the most nightmarishly original dystopian visions you are likely to encounter this year” (Variety)
Prepare yourself for an experience, an immersion in memory, dream and melancholy; and for anyone interested in animation, this will make you re-think what is possible. On its premiere at Berlin one critic noted “the anger behind it is so virulent that it sweeps the narrative along on a wave of rage and repulsion.” An artist watches his parents die in aged care, hiding in the memories of growing up in a 1970s industrial town, now decaying. 11 years in the making, veteran animator Wilczynski mines his deepest demons, brightened by a great soundtrack including old Polish Pop.
“utterly bizarre, frequently grotesque, occasionally obscene… a peculiarly vivid, monochromatically psychotropic bad trip.” (Variety)
“a work of entrancing low-fi artistry and deeply felt emotion” (Screen International)
“raw, rough, fragmented, angry, often brilliant with its own kind of aesthetic brusquery and pain… hallucinatory and nihilistic, but also funny in a bleak Beckettian sort of way” (The Guardian)
