HOUSE ON ITS HEAD
POLISH TITLE: 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
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 20'
- YEAR:
- 2014
- DIRECTING:
- Adam Palenta
- SCRIPT:
- Adam Palenta
- DOP:
- Wojciech Zamecznik
- EDITOR:
- Adam Palenta, Wojciech Zamecznik
- MUSIC:
- Marcin Masecki
- PRODUCER:
- Fundacja Archeologii Fotografii
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:
- 14th One Shot International Short Film Festival, Armenia, 2016 (competition)
- Art. Fair Riga 2015, Latvia, 2015 (screening)
- The Wandering Reel Travelling Film Festival 2015, USA, 2015 (screening)
- 7th Baghdad International Film Festival, Iraq, 2015 (screening)
- IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (screening)
- FaitoDOCfestival, Italy, 2015 (Best Short Documentary)
- 43rd Huesca Film Festival, Spain, 2015 (competition)
- Festival Al Este de Lima, Peru, 2015 (screening)
- Visions du Réel International Film Festival 2015, Switzerland, 2015 (competition)
- 30th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (screening)
- 14th T-mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (competition)
- 54th Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2014 (The Award of the Polish Filmmakers Association for the Best Film Editing)