AND ŁÓDŹ STAYS ANYWAY
POLISH TITLE: A ŁÓDŹ I TAK ZOSTANIE
An ordinary visit to a friend they have not seen for a long time becomes, for both men, a pretext to walk down the streets of Łódź. This slightly surreal trip to less known locations and alleys reveals the city’s flavour. It is also a journey in time, showing the remnants of what belongs to the past now, like old neons, a closed down local bar or forgotten amusement park. These are the places that preserve the character of the city portrait in black and white.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- POLAND
- RUNNING TIME:
- 8'
- YEAR:
- 2014
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Podolec
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Podolec
- DOP:
- Marcin Podolec
- EDITOR:
- Marcin Podolec
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Marcin Podolec »
Marcin Podolec - born in 1991 in Jarosław, Poland; comic artist, animator, currently works mostly on documentaries and biographies. A graduate (2015) of The Polish National Film School in Lodz (Animation department). His books are published by Kultura Gniewu; co-author of the comic albums: Captain Sheer (2010), Insight (2014) and Sometimes (2011), which was awarded The Comic Book of the Year in Poland; writer and illustrator of All Taken (2012) and Fugazi Music Club (2013), which was sold to several international publishers (Italy, France, Germany, Spain). His short animadoc A Documentary Film (2015) was screened and awarded at many film festivals, such as the DOK Lepizig, SICAF (Seoul) and Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. His next animated documentary, The Gentle Giant (2016), is his graduate film.
- 54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)