![]() ![]() It was also hard to hook up with any girls, because they were like, "Oh, dude, did you just get out of high school?" But the main things didn't change. When I was 20, I looked like I was 15. So that was actually very difficult. What was it like going out for you as somebody in their twenties? I get more tired every year, but I still get a rush going out to dance. I'm approaching 30, but I still go to clubs sometimes to enjoy music. I thought it was really interesting, the way this movie captured going out. That's very interesting, and it was important to show that. ![]() There's one scene where everybody falls asleep, and I think the audience thinks, "Oh, they must all have had group sex or something." They just fell asleep and were cuddling each other, and then they woke up and had breakfast. This generation is having the least sex of any generation since World War II. In my generation, there was way more, but way less flirting. There's way more playfulness now-more eroticism and flirting-but there's not a lot of sex. They're more conscious of the subtleties, and they play with them better. ![]() People spoke less about their emotions, but there's something much more playful with this generation. The architecture's changed, but internally there's been the most interesting change. ![]() Those days are unfortunately gone.Īs a filmmaker, how would you characterize the changes that Warsaw has undergone? The idea was to capture that moment, because it also felt a little fragile-and it ended because the right wing government took over. This is also the first pure generation that can slack off for a year, not do anything, and just think about themselves and where they want to go and their style and what they want to do in life. That really wasn't a thing with my friends. They travel the world and they feel they're like part of it. I remember visiting London and New York when I was 21 and I felt very inadequate-that I didn't belong there. Poland gained its independence in 1989, so I have a feeling that my generation was still a little bit shy and looking towards the West. What are these people like? What has changed? Has anything changed? Or have I just changed and I'm just looking out with a different set of eyes? I did find minor differences, which was super exciting. When I was strolling around Warsaw, I was seeing that there's a new generation around and I'm not the youngest one anymore. When did you first decide that you wanted to make this film? I actually postponed shooting for half a year because we were waiting for components for the camera rig, and they just weren't working well yet. So I ended up building a rig to shoot the film on. I looked through a bunch of technology that was available, and there was nothing that was sufficient to be able to film for long enough and to be able to control it all by yourself. I wanted this film to flow with the characters, and for the point of view to be completely embedded with them-to be living through the moments with them. Of course, there are certain situations in which that technique is the best, but if you want to do something which really conveys emotions-image, mood, atmosphere-then handheld isn't enough. Michal Marczak: I started out doing documentaries, but I always felt that the fly-on-the-wall, long-lens perspective is super limiting. What led you to embrace these aesthetics? VICE: The film looks very different from other documentaries in general. We caught up with Marczak about how he put together his fascinating film, the changing state of Polish politics, and capturing drug use on film: ![]()
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