Kill it and Leave this Town

Zabij To I Wyjedz z Tego Miasta

61st TIFF: Greek premiere

The Polish city of Łódź, in the Communist 60s, is reborn as a mosaic of sordid vignettes: trams run through an endless night, fish heads bob through the ceiling as the walls turn into water, and a cat-man in a trench coat rants about annihilation on a street corner. A hallucinatory autobiographical animation that unfolds as a psychotropic journey through the director’s memories, blurring the living with the dead in a melancholic feast of sadness and comfort.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Mariusz Wilczyński
Script: Mariusz Wilczyński
Sound: Franciszek Kozłowski
Music: Tadeusz Nalepa
Actors: (Voices) Maja Ostaszewska, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Chyra
Production: Bombonierka Production
Producers: Ewa Puszczyńska, Agnieszka Ścibior
Co-production: National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Ec1 Łódź - City Of Culture, Letko, Nolabel, Di Factory, Gigant Films
Sets: Mariusz Wilczyński
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Poland
Production Year: 2020
Duration: 88'
Contact: OUTSIDER PICTURES Paul Hudson paul@outsiderpictures.us

Mariusz Wilczyński

A self-taught artist who has been creating animated auteur cinema for over twenty years. Retrospectives of his films were held, among others, at MoMA in New York, National Museum of Brasília, Tokyo International Forum and The National Museum in Warsaw. His animations were shown at the National Gallery in London and at Berlinale. He also gives improvised live animation performances which he co-creates with symphony orchestras from Hong Kong, Paris, Tokyo, Geneva, Lviv and Warsaw. In 2007, the New York Times called him “one of the most important contemporary creators of artistic animation.” For the last 14 years, he has been working on Kill It and Leave This Town. He is a professor of Animation at the Film School in Łódź

Filmography

1998 Times Have Passed | Czasy przeszły
2004 Unfortunately | Niestety
2007 Kizi Mizi
2020 Kill It and Leave this Town | Zabij To I Wyjedz z Tego Miasta