黑料不打烊

Mariusz Wilczy艅ski鈥檚 exhibition centres around one film 鈥� the full-length debut of this well-known animator titled Kill It and Leave This Town. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in early 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic it had to wait almost a year before it arrived in cinemas. During this time it was shown and won awards at the world鈥檚 leading animation festivals -鈥� in Annecy and Ottawa, among others.

Originally envisaged as a short film, the animation took 14 years to complete. Finally, a full-length film was made, which represents the artist鈥檚 journey through the land of memories, with recurring motifs of people and places close to him. The animator鈥檚 home town 艁贸d藕 provides the backdrop for this surreal story while the characters are real, imagined, or taken from literature. The late Tadeusz Nalepa, Wilczy艅ski鈥檚 friend and the author of the film鈥檚 score, features as one the most important ones among them. Kill It and Leave This Town combines the climate of a dreamlike fantasy with realism and black humour, high culture with pop culture, personal memories with a description of reality. The author transcribes traditional animation into the feature film format, even though he keeps it in the space of art-house cinema, and gives this thoroughly Polish film a universal character, which is nevertheless also comprehensible for foreign viewers.