An avant-garde Polish fever dream that'll melt your brain and question reality itself.
Maintained in the convention of a daydream, or rather a psychedelic vision, an impression on the works of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. Individual sequences of the film depict fragments of Witkacy's works, and the whole seems to be a commentary on the sentence: "I remember that night, when boundless terror took over the innermost fibers of my brain, and all I could hear was that terrible babble in the gaping maw of the unknown, that something blind, turning its blade toward itself."
Direction
Jacek Schmidt's hallucinatory visual language.
Cinematography
Sequences that dissolve reality into pure nightmare texture.
Sound
That terrible babble you literally cannot unhear.
Director
Jacek Schmidt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was a polymath playwright, painter and philosopher who died by suicide in 1939 when the Sovi invaded Poland.
Schmidt made this during Poland's martial law period, when avant-garde art became coded resistance against Soviet censorship.
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