GRAND PRIX FOR THE FILM “THE WORK OF THE MACHINES”
At the Documentary Film Festival FIDMarseille in Marseilles, which finished on 12th of July, the Polish documentary “The work of the machines” by three directors, Michał Mądracki, Maciej Mądracki and Gilles Lepore, won the main prize in the international competition.
“The work of machines” is a picture of a typical town, situated near the workplace. In the shopping centre, two little girls play on the carousel, on the great stadium a football match takes place, watched only by a handful of supporters. Here The Work of the Machines begins. In 1968, a dance in honour of the department was invented. By following the memories, the forgotten choreography is recovered. The reconstruction of the dance is a time machine, a journey to an ideal world, where production was meant to signify happy life.
The screening of the film at the FIDMarseille festival was its international premiere, and the Grand Prix award, for which 20 documentaries competed in the international competition, is the first significant award for the recently made film by three directors: Michał Mądracki, Maciej Mądracki and Gilles Lepore.
Michał Mądracki – the graduate of Religious Studies at Jagiellonian University, is a scriptwriter. Maciej Mądracki – the graduate of Film Studies at Jagiellonian University – now a student of directing at Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television in Katowice. The third director of “The work of the machines”, Gilles Lepore, is an author of comics, illustrations and he is also a film-maker. He graduated from the Visual Arts School in Bienne, Switzerland. He was the scholarship holder at the Krakow Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts of the animation workshop by Professor Jerzy Kucia, and thanks to this cooperation the short animated film “The Cage” was made.
Detailed information about the festival can be found here.