{"id":18934,"date":"2020-05-12T17:41:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/?p=18934"},"modified":"2020-05-28T00:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T22:16:17","slug":"no-mans-land-docsscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krakowfilmfestival.pl\/en\/no-mans-land-docsscience\/","title":{"rendered":"No man\u2019s land. Docs+Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A series of extraordinary films about man’s relation with the world at the 60<\/b>th<\/b> Krakow Film Festival<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Docs+Science is one of the youngest sections of the Krakow Film Festival. Each year it follows film expressions focusing on fascinating natural phenomena and the biggest scientific discoveries, follows the greatest minds of the era, and takes a closer look at complicated relations between people and technology and nature. In this year’s series filmmakers will try to answer great questions using various film forms and techniques; apart from documentary films we will see animations and pictures that could not be described with traditional genres. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeling of uncertainty is usually an unwanted state: it irritates us and seems redundant, accompanies us when we enter territories lying somewhere in no man’s land – in between knowledge and the lack of it, science and art, fear and hope. It appears when we ask about the nature of consciousness, human state in the times of all-embracing crisis, the place of a human being in space. Good cinema was created to draw the answers for these kind of questions. “Good” meaning combining intellectual rigour and discipline of an experiment with deeply humanistic sensitivity and inclination towards free artistic exploration<\/em> – Karol Jałochowski<\/strong>, Docs+Science curator, journalist writing for Polityka magazine, filmmaker and physician, says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man and nature<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In the programme we will see one Polish production. “Fat Kathy”<\/a><\/strong> (dir. Julia Pełka) will not only reveal the secrets of the water supply sytem in Poland’s capital, where health and even life of people living in Warsaw is protected by… clams. Pełka’s documentary is a heartwarming and full of subtle humour story of an unusual relation humanity has with technology and nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A trancelike film by an Italian-German artistic collective Flatform (Anna Maria Martena and Roberto Taroni) “That Which Is to Come Is Just a Promise” <\/a><\/strong>is a perfectly executed series of overlapping shots that are a reflection on the human epoch – the Anthropocene. The changes it entails – the cycles of draughts and floods – reach even Funafuti, an island lost in the Pacific which belongs to Tuvalu’s archipelago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiruna is a small town – with the population of less than 20 thousand – located north of the Arctic Circle, which faces a compulsory relocation. A community filmed by Greta Stocklassa in “Kiruna – A Brand New World” <\/a><\/strong>becomes a metaphor for the human condition – devoid of constant reference points, remaining in perpetual transit, in limbo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n