A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 1, 1981
Original Title:
Hamadria
Genres:
Documentary | Thriller
Production Companies:
Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych
Production Countries:
Poland
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Maintained in the convention of a daydream, or rather a psychedelic vision, an impression on the works of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. Individual sequences of the film depict fragments of Witkacy's works, and the whole seems to be a commentary on the sentence: "I remember that night, when boundless terror took over the innermost fibers of my brain, and all I could hear was that terrible babble in the gaping maw of the unknown, that something blind, turning its blade toward itself."
Director:
Jacek Schmidt
Director of Photography:
Przemysław Skwirczyński
Piotr Sobociński
Editor:
Janina Grosicka
Music:
Leszek Orlewicz
Sound:
Jan Freda
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