[ACCORDIAN MUSIC PLAYING]
JAN KWIECINSKI: I wanted to create a clash of two
margins-- the people from the city and the people from
outside the city.
I was thinking that showing these fancy guys from the town
who get lost somewhere and people in the village who are
also lost can be a nice idea.
[SPEAKING POLISH]
JAN KWIECINSKI: One thing was the margins, and the other
thing was the unknown place, which the audience had never
seen before.
And I was thinking that maybe that a cool idea would be if I
would go to place where I have never been before.
So that's what I did.
[SPEAKING POLISH]
PAWEL TOMASZEWSKI: [SPEAKING POLISH]
PAWEL SMAGALA: [SPEAKING POLISH]
PAWEL TOMASZEWSKI: [SPEAKING POLISH]
PAWEL SMAGALA: [SPEAKING POLISH]
PAWEL TOMASZEWSKI: [SPEAKING POLISH]
PAWEL SMAGALA: [SPEAKING POLISH]
[CHURCH BELL CHIMES]
JAN KWIECINSKI: What is great about Parysewo is that when I
first came here, it was totally empty.
Basically, there was nobody on the street.
It was very mysterious.
Because you look at this amazing big church, but it's
untouched in a way.
There are 100-year-old houses, and you feel that you don't
have this life outside.
It feels like it's the middle of nowhere.
I felt a quite strange atmosphere here.
I don't know what it is.
Logistically, like from my point of view, it's quite easy
to close the town and to shoot the empty town.
And I was thinking that maybe it wouldn't be such a stupid
idea to put some characters there.
MALE SPEAKER: [SPEAKING POLISH]
CAMERAMAN: [SPEAKING POLISH]
[PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: [SPEAKING POLISH]
JAN KWIECINSKI: My script was based basically on very
logical structure.
I tried to write as few details as possible because of
the fact that I want my actors to feel creative and to be a
part of the storytelling.
And in my opinion, it's always good to open these kind of
doors to the actors because they straightaway feel like a
participant of the project.
And they are becoming very creative straightaway.
MALE SPEAKER: [SPEAKING POLISH]
JUSTYNA WASILEWSKA: [SPEAKING POLISH]
JAN KWIECINSKI: It's the first time when I'm working with
four actors.
I was really lucky because they knew each other before
they met in my project.
I felt there was an energy which is coming straight from
nothing in a way.
I felt from the beginning of the project that these are the
kind of actors which will make these characters feel alive.
PAWEL TOMASZEWSKI: [SPEAKING POLISH]
JAN KWIECINSKI: I got a good group in here.
And sometimes the director who really wants to direct can
kill the project.
A very, very important part of the
process is keeping distance.
And what's helps you in keeping distance is constantly
sharing this idea with the others.
Don't think that only your way is the good way because that
can make the project look really like without life.
And this way of thinking about the script, I think it's not
only connected with thinking how should you work with the
actors, but also how should you work with other people who
are participating in movie projects.
And I try to not make it my script but
their script as well.
RADOSLAWA BARDES: Say hello.
Hello, little puppy.
She's terrified.
She peed on me, like, twice already.
We want to show that the town got abandoned by locals, and
these dogs are homeless, and they just hang around.
We make sure that we have bag of kielbasa, polish sausages.
And we just bribe them.
If they come with us, they start their career.
JAN KWIECINSKI: I really feel so overwhelmed that I'm the
participant of this project.
And I really feel like this so great opportunity to me.
And it's really hard to talk about it.
Everything was so fast.
And the whole process is like I didn't even
notice where it started.
It wasn't clear at all.
You gave us this super opportunity to talk about
something so metaphysical that you can't even talk about it.
So this is the four dimension of my movie, trying to capture
something beyond our perception, something more
than we can imagine.
So from the beginning, I was thinking, create the story
between this magical and real world.
But the magic has to be created from the realism which
you are making.
And maybe we'll find four dimensions in the end.
I hope so.
[MUSIC PLAYING]