from Polański to... - school etudes 1

The film made during Roman Polański's stay at the National Film, Television & Theatre School, using fragments of school études by the director of Knife in the Water…

Hooligans raid a students' party organised by Polański and they start a fight. The legend goes that the director had not warned the participants of the filmed party about the planned events. All guests were convinced that Polański just wanted to record them playing and they did not expect the unwelcomed visitors.

A dithyramb for a woman-mother and a synthetic vision of motherhood. The animation for From Dust to Dawn was made in the plasticine technique. The making of this school étude was supervised by Piotr Dumała.

The famous Hollywood western and historical film star visits the outskirts of Europe. He comes to the most prestigious artistic university of the country and is surprised to discover a town of western films in Targowa Street in Łódź. The film star surrenders to events and jumps on a horse prepared by his hosts. He is overcome by the Slavic fantasy of the Poles who receive him.

The first film by the future Oscar winner, Zbigniew Rybczyński, in which the director experiments with film form to the rhythm of the classic piece of jazz by Dave Brubeck.

A feature étude on a short story by Sławomir Mrożek of the same title. A fictitious zoo badly needs an elephant, so someone suggests to make the animal. A giant, inflated elephant is prepared, but instead of becoming the main attraction, it flies away in front of the very eyes of schoolchildren.

A film made with a hidden camera in the Social Insurance Institution and a satire of bureaucracy and official heartlessness. One of the first films made by the future author of The Ten Commandments, Krzysztof Kieślowski, produced under the artistic supervision of Kazimierz Karabasz and Jerzy Bossak.

The first film made by Marek Piwowski while he was a second-year student at the National Film, TV & Theatre School. His observations were focused on a medical examination of young men at the Military Service Commission. The situation allowed Piwowski to expose stupidity and the callousness of the recruiting commission.

An étude for the song Money, Money of the famous musical Cabaret by Bob Fosse. A story of a pipe in the city-centre of Łódź, which has become a witness and commentator of contemporary times...

The films starts like a portrait of the lower classes and then it changes into a cautionary metaphor. The film includes the wonderful scene of several men mindlessly watching the TV news, informing about hippies from all over the world, who gather in Naples, believing in nothing and questioning social values... With drastic means of expression, Wiszniewski managed to present entirely these antiheroes' world of only one dimension.