This Is Not a Bath

Once Our Folks, then Day of the Wacko, today This Is Not a Bath. Films that tell us that our own neighbor is mankind's worst enemy have a rich tradition in Poland. In Pola Włodarczyk's brilliant animation, she creatively draws on this tradition to ultimately pave her own path, abandoning the concrete in favor of abstraction. In This Is Not a Bath, the director seems to argue that although we like to see ourselves as individualists, we are more connected to the Other than we would like to admit.