IF I ONLY WERE A SPIDER

GDYBYM TYLKO BYŁ PAJĄKIEM

In an Arcadian setting, hidden amid calcic rocks, lies a village school – the smallest one in the European Union, boasting a total of five children. Its students have a very realistic worldview and shape their dreams accordingly. They are more like adults than children. Only the five-year-old Christian allows himself to be swept away by imagination, entangled in a spider web of his fantasies. Will the world accept this fragile superhero? In this small student community certain social mechanisms become more visible than in big educational institutions. “If I Only Were A Spider” is a film about the norm rejecting that what is different, and about the differences fighting to stay different.

Genre: Documentary
Country: Poland
Running time: 18
Year: 2015
Color: colour

Director: Alex Casianov, Katarzyna Warzecha, Martyna Majewska

Script: Katarzyna Warzecha, Alex Casianov, Martyna Majewska

DOP: Robert Lis, Natalia Pietsch, Mariusz Rychłowski

Music: Raphael Rogiński

Editing: Piotr Chomczyk

Production company: Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach (WRiTv UŚ)

About the directors:

was born in 1988 in Moldova. In 2008 he started studying History of Arts at the University of Warsaw and in 2011 he begin studying Film Directing at Krzysztof Kieslowski Radio and Television Faculty of Silesian Univeristy in Katowice.

Born in Gdańsk in 1989, Katarzyna Warzecha graduated from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and the Wajda School & Studio in Warsaw. Her graduation film, It’s Really Awesome, was screened at numerous international festivals and won a series of awards. She has worked with directors such as Filip Bajon and Marcin Wrona. She loves good food and has a special fondness for potatoes.

Martyna Majewska was born during the winter in Walbrzych. A graduate of Cultural studies at the University of Wroclaw and Stage directing at the State College of Theatre in Wroclaw. A student of Film directing at the University of Silesia (Krzysztof Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television). As a film and theater director combines fields of theater, performance and film, follower of any kind of interdisciplinarity. In her works often uses kitsch and grotesque.

At festivals:

22nd IFF Etiuda&Anima, Poland, 2015 (competition)

GZDOC, China, 2015 (competition)

8th China International New Media Short Film Festival, China, 2017 (competition)