The Sound of ’68 premieres online. It is a black-and-white, dialogue-free short film made for the Machine Cinema Directors Cup, where it represented Poland against France in the Round of 16.
The film is inspired by the March 1968 student protests in communist Poland, which followed the censorship of Adam Mickiewicz’s Dziady and were met with violence and political repression.
It was made solo in four hours, with a brief that combined history and music: a young violinist and a handwritten musical score. Told entirely without dialogue in a neo-noir, social-realist anime style, it explores how music can preserve memory when history is silenced.
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