by Maciej Gryzełko | Aug 26, 2019
A good music video is striking, maverick, often innovative narratively, technically or direction-wise. It’s something that can pull you into an original, peculiar world. A good music video is bold. With no hang-ups regarding its older, feature-length, big-screen...
by Matylda Badera | Aug 26, 2019
This year’s film competition is an attempt to decipher the “Unsubscribe” tagline, made by six people. Looking for pictures to fit the theme did not make the programmers’ jobs – consisting of digging through tons of the freshest debuts (and second films) –...
by Jacek Wandzel | Aug 26, 2019
Here at Ars Independent, a year before a nice and round tenth edition, we jumped on a certain train of thought. What if this isn’t the right way? Did we choose the right path, the right goal? Maybe we should take an ideological trip to Belize and tell everyone to just...
by Gabriela Palicka | Aug 26, 2019
The more I know, the more I see how much I don’t. As a veteran viewer of the animation competition (and animation in general), I encounter things that are fresh, bold, atypical. I can be wowed by something, only to later conclude that the work reached the ends of...
by Matylda Badera | Aug 26, 2019
A scorching summer in a decaying city, teenage heads filled with dreams of an escape to NY, smothering parents and a jealous ex. A mix that leads to a night full of violence and bad choices. Two friends Lou and Chantel now have to make decisions that can irreversibly...