The 3rd UnArchive Found Footage Fest dedicated to the creative use of archival materials in audiovisual productions ended on 1, June.

The award for Best Creative Use of Archive Material went to Trains by Maciej Drygas, a film that stood out for its radical simplicity and for the mastery with which it uses archive images as a narrative train through dream and nightmare, joy and pain. The film embodies a deep faith in the evocative power of cinema and its potential for political transformation of the gaze on the past.

TRAINS
screenplay and direction: Maciej Drygas (directing lecturer)
editing: Rafał Listopad (editing lecturer)
music: Paweł Szymański
producer: Vita Żelakeviciute
production: Drygas Film Production
co-production: Polish Television, Era Film

A train compartment is a place where a person is temporarily torn out of the context of everyday existence. For a few hours or a few days, they are in a new society, and their life goes on according to the time marked by the timetable. There is something beautiful, and magical about a train journey, but often also very painful. Sometimes the journey is accompanied by hope, or - there is no hope at all. The joy of travel becomes a curse, and tears of joy mix with the pain of despair. Trains is an original, reflective journey through the 20th century composed exclusively of archive materials. A beautiful and bitter image without words, accompanied by a sophisticated sound design with music by Paweł Szymański.

More information on the film: drygasfilmproduction.com/trains

Congratulations, Professor!