![]() This screening is free of charge and open to the public. To SUBSCRIBE to our MAILING LIST for upcoming free screenings and events, e-mail the word "Subscribe" to: our Public Group on Facebook: To view the calendar of screenings, click here. Recognizing a need for greater diversity on campus, the series will draw from around the globe to present movies that may challenge, inspire or simply entertain. Outside the Box is a weekly showcase for upcoming releases highlighting world cinema, documentary and independent film titles. It was chosen by the UK’s Dazed & Confused magazine as one of the “top ten most innovative documentaries of recent years.” Michal also directed At the Edge of Russia, which garnered him the HBO Emerging Artist Award and Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs as well as numerous other accolades at festivals worldwide. He is the director of Fuck for Forest, which premiered at SXSW and was the most highly screened Polish documentary of 2013, having been theatrically released in a number of countries. Michal Marczak is a Polish director and cinematographer. MICHAL MARCZAK (Director, Cinematographer) A film that created its own distinct form and way to tell its story. I’ve never been keen on labels, for me this is just a film. Some people will see this as a documentary, others as fiction. It’s a question I can’t really answer and one that I don’t think I have to. With a film like this it’s hard to say how much is staged and how much is real. ![]() On the technical side, I for example engineered a camera rig from the ground up - a combination of a Steadicam and computerized gimbal which allowed me to operate for hours at a time in crowded spaces. On the personal level, the entire crew and cast became a like mind that was always on the lookout to experience and to record an emotional moment. ![]() In order to portray all this vibrancy of youth with its ephemeral moments of beauty I decided to make this film in a manner that combines all possible techniques of filmmaking. They represent a new, freer spirit of Warsaw, one that has just come into itself and one which would have been nearly impossible to imagine not so long ago. These individuals are becoming as unique as you can be in today’s globalized world. You can see it in the clubs, in the music, in the way people spend time or converse. Twenty years after the fall of the wall, a new generation has emerged one that embodies a distinct Warsaw identity that is both inspired and cool, free from the troubles of the past. On the other hand, there was a kind of anger caused by the fact that what was happening around me did not have the adequate visual imagery that it deserved. Their problems and inner worlds usually seem so oversimplified. The thing is, I can’t stand most movies about youth. So in part I began working on this movie because I realized that the time in which I could embed myself among the young as one of them was slowly coming to an end. The idea for this movie arose out of a thought I had one cold morning in Warsaw: “Shit, How much time do I have left to make a movie about what it’s like to be young?” Only a few great filmmakers, irrespective of their age, have been able to show youth in all its crazy splendor. In Polish and English, with English subtitles. In a profound and compelling celebration of cinema, filmmaker Michal Marczak captures the very heart and soul of a generation awake enough to dance to their dreams. As they chain-smoke, drink, and party with abandon, big ideas are as palpable as the romance and sex in the air. He and Michal, handsome and wide-eyed, roam the metropolis at night, floating from encounter to encounter, with only instinct and desire as their captain. All These Sleepless Nights viscerally summons that feeling, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers when students Kris and Michal resolve to experience life to the limit.Īfter Kris, our sensitive yet perpetually inquisitive hero, breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible. Many of us know the freedom of our twenties-unfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment. Mitchell Business of Cinematic Arts Program
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