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THE LOST TOWN OF ŚWITEŹ

POLISH TITLE: ŚWITEŹ

A narrative spectacle, set in two time dimensions, based on Adam Mickiewicz’s romantic ballad of the same title. Kamil Polak’s film, which is inspired by icons and combines a painting technique
with 3D animation, takes its viewers on a breathtaking visual journey to a medieval city hidden under the surface of the lake. There is a mystic dimension to the eternal struggle between good
and evil in The Lost Town of Świteź, which is highlighted by Irina Bogdanovich’s music, alluding to Orthodox church music.

TRAILER
GENRE:
animation
COUNTRY:
Poland, Canada, France, Switzerland, Denmark
RUNNING TIME:
20'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Kamil Polak
SCRIPT:
Kamil Polak
EDITOR:
Kamil Polak
MUSIC:
Irina Bogdanovic
PRODUCTION:
PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna), TVP S.A., Se-ma-for, Kamil Polak, Archangel, Denis Friedman Productions, National Film Board of Canada, Zielony Pomidor, Human Ark

Kamil Polak »

graduate of Łódź Film School, where he made his first experimental animations. His student film "Birth of a Nation" (2001) is shown in the framework of the best films representing Łódź Film School. He was visual effects supervisor of the Academy Award-winning film PETER AND THE WOLF (2008). Kamil is the director of the outstanding animation “The Lost Town of Switez”, which premiered at the International Film Festival Berlinale in 2011, screened at 150 international film festivals and won over 25 awards. Recently, Kamil gained attention for his animated projections for the spectacles by Krzysztof Warlikowski, Poland’s most influential theatre and opera director. The most spectacular are animated inserts for Richard Strauss's opera "Die Frau ohne Schatten" ("The Woman without a Shadow") prepared for the anniversary of the Munich opera reconstruction after World War II - one of the key opera scenes in Germany. He also is an experienced commercials director, alone or in a team with Wojtek Wawszczyk. With Human Ark since 2010.
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