Saturday, August 13, 2022

Longin Szmyd - Oficyna (1983)

 


"An attempt to reconstruct the history of the old nineteenth-century building, when the people who once lived there were just memories, shadows, old photographs, and broken items. The director completes the parts with drawings, animations, graphics, and builds a strange, somewhat surreal whole."- Mubi


"Longin Szmyd was born on December 20, 1955 in Bytom, Slaskie, Poland. He is a director and actor, known for Królestwo zielonej polany. Powrót (1998), Lampa i slowik (1995) and Nostalgia (1984)" - IMDB


Cool, proggy-80s score from Janusz Grzywacz - founder and leader of the legendary Polish jazz band Laboratorium apparently - and sounding here a bit like Hassell's City of Fiction meets Associates "Q Quarters" meets Startled Insects. Dank and shadowy, modern yet dated, laced with absurdist vocals. 



A symphony of browns and moss-greens (and that's just the clothing and the hair). 







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