INTRO-VERSIONS. Book premiere on May, 26th!
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An emotional and uncompromising SELF-PORTRAIT of the Lodz Film School students. We invite you to the BOOK PREMIERE on May, 26th at 6:00 PM / Lodz Film School Studio. See you there!

THE HOSTS OF THE EVENT WILL BE DAREK FOKS & KUBA MIKURDA.
WATCH THE TRAILER
READ A FRAGMENT OF DAREK FOKS’ REVIEW, A RECOLLECTION OF ANIA MORAWIEC AND AN EXTRACT FROM ONE OF THE AUTHORS

The choice of language is one of the most important and difficult dilemmas of a young artist, especially in times when we all have the impression that we have more and more languages every day, and at the same time, we experience an acute problem with communication, information and silence, which has an all-powerful impact on our everyday, functional choice of words or voluntary resignation from them - that is, on our lives. The statements from the Lodz Film School students of direction collected in the "Intro-versions”, show this dilemma very clearly. (...) In the over two hundred works that make up this book, perhaps the most powerful are the "reports on oneself", the traces of an individual, their path from freedom to weakness and from weakness to freedom, the ubiquitous attempt to define or redefine that which is closest, is disturbing, or may come in handy. Destruction and re-taming meet with taming and re-destruction - such a serious game takes place here.
Darek Foks, poet and prose writer, fragment of a review

These were self-reflection exercises, exercises in shamelessness. I handed over my weekly texts like saliva samples, checking where and who I was at that moment. We would go down to some underground where there was room for shame and creative powerlessness. Images and memories returned, which we shared in trust and good will. There was room for banality, kitsch and cliché there. It didn't matter. Suddenly, it turned out that there was room for everyone in this world. I felt at ease, I could finally eat with my fingers from the pot. Ania Morawiec, one of the authors, Lodz film school direction graduate

There have been 248335.54 słabos in me. (1 unit of weakness = 1 słabo)
Buy a ticket when you notice someone looks like a controller on a tram = 1 słabo
Make a compromise with someone despite their shitty idea = 13 słabos
Compliment someone’s shitty idea = 13000 słabos
Compliment your mother’s new hairdo on Skype = 130 słabos
Telling a girlfriend she looks amazing today = 131 słabos
Realizing you don’t have a girlfriend = 32020.54 słabos
Google "X-videos" or "Pornhub" = 2403 słabos
Stop googling "X-videos" or "Pornhub" = 4806 słabos
Go to the cinema alone = 55 słabos
An old couple sitting next to you = 98 słabos
A young couple sitting in front of you = 9352 słabos
After going to the cinema alone = 5089 słabos
Cooking at home, opening a cold beer = 11 słabos
The taste of what you’ve cooked = 1533 słabos
Writing some jokes on a laptop, making fun of yourself = 166 słabos Before showing anyone, you realize they are not that funny = 1692 słabos
Google "X-Videos" or "Pornhub" = 2402 słabos
Turn off the light, go to bed = 98 słabos
Your back hurts because the mattress is too soft = 198 słabos Sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor, turn off the light again = 92 słabos
Ming-Wei Chiang, one of the authors, Lodz Film School direction graduate

TRAILER on Vimeo
TRAILER on YouTube
direction: Filip Bojarski
animation: Pola Włodarczyk
sound: Artboyz Studios
voice: Paulina Walendziak
text: Magdalena Kuśmierczyk from the book INTRO-VERSIONS

THE BOOK
Graphic design: Małgorzata ET BER Warlikowska
Colours and animation of graphic designs: Katarzyna Małyszko
Book cover graphic design, typesetting and folding: Bogusław Jaworski
Polish language editing and proofreading: Darek Foks

TO BE SEEN, TO BE LISTENED TO, TO BE READ!!!