REALITY SHOCK



2005, 79 min., Germany/Poland
DIRECTION:
Stanislaw Mucha
SCRIPT:
Stanislaw Mucha
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Krzysztof Pakulski
EDITING:
Boguslaw Saganowski, Jacek Tarasiuk
SOUND:
Maria Chilarecka
PRODUCERS:
Zbigniew Domagalski, Stanislaw Mucha
PRODUCTION:
Kalejdoskop Film Studio

The film finalizes Mucha's East European trilogy. It documents the "European Jungle" on the eve of Poland's entry into the European Union in May of 2004. The so-called jungle is a region of eastern Poland still very conscious of the country's communist past, where locals reminisce about Lenin's philosophies. Mucha's satire-documentary explores claims made in the 1980's about a UFO sighting as well as local opinions about the impending future in a unified Europe. As one woman predicts in cards, the new Europe will be a place where "all the police are British, all the mechanics are German, all the lovers are Italian, and all the cooks, French." The film meshes documentary with parody so well that often the line, like the border between eastern Poland and her neighbors, is unclear.

Stanisław Mucha

Born in 1970 in Nowy Targ. Film director, scriptwriter. He graduated from The Ludwik Solski National Drama School in Cracow (Acting) in 1993. He the joined Cracow's Old Theatre. In 1995, he moved to Berlin and studied Film Directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film & TV which he concluded in 2000. His documentary films include: Polish Passion (1996/97); Back Home to the Reich with Bubi (2000), Absolut Warhola (2001). At the present he is filming his feature debut Hope (Nadzieja). He resides in Germany.

Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 5:00 pm. (Gallery Theatre)