HOUSE ON ITS HEAD

DOM NA GŁOWIE

This unusual documentary shows the family life of Wojciech Zamecznik (1923–1967), an architect, set designer and eminent poster artist. The film was made thanks to the private archives of the artist who loved to record his family life, meetings and trips with friends. Graphic works and experimental materials, never published before, complement the documentary material. The film provides not only an interesting perspective on the artist’s everyday life, but also a rare opportunity to find out about the life in communist Poland of the 1950s.

FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Country: Poland
  • Running time: 20
  • Year: 2014
  • Color: kolorowy

Director: Adam Palenta

Script: Adam Palenta

DOP: Wojciech Zamecznik

Music: Marcin Masecki

Editing: Adam Palenta, Agnieszka Glińska, Wojciech Zamecznik

Production company: Fundacja Archeologii Fotografii

Trailer

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About the director:

Adam Palenta

Adam Palenta

Cinematographer, director and photographer. Palenta is a graduate of universities in Poznań, Katowice, Opawa and Warsaw who won numerous honorary diplomas and awards, among others for his photography to the short feature film Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Room (dir. K. Czekaj). Apart from documentary and feature films he also makes video clips and TV commercials. The documentary film Freestyle Life is his directing debut, produced by the Andrzej Munk Studio as part of the project The First Documentary.

At festivals:

54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (The Award of the Polish Filmmakers Association for the Best Film Editing)

14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)

30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)

Visions du Réel International Film Festival 2015, Switzerland, 2015 (competition)

Festival Al Este de Lima, Peru, 2015 (screening)

43rd Huesca Film Festival, Spain, 2015 (competition)

FaitoDOCfestival, Italy, 2015 (Best Short Documentary)

IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (screening)

7th Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq, 2015 (screening)

The Wandering Reel Travelling Film Festival 2015, USA, 2015 (screening)

Art. Fair Riga 2015, Latvia, 2015 (screening)

14th One Shot International Short Film Festival, Armenia, 2016 (competition)