THE WASHING MACHINE

POLISH TITLE: PRALKA

This is a story of an old washing machine, popular in communist Poland, which is the bane of Stefan Czarniecki’s existence. His home and life become a metaphorical intersection of certain phenomena of the last three decades of Polish history.

GENRE:
fiction
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
13'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Jakub Pączek
SCRIPT:
Jakub Pączek
DOP:
Weronika Bilska
EDITOR:
Ludwik Sielicki, Jakub Pączek
MUSIC:
Marcin Gągola
PRODUCTION:
Wydział Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach (WRiTv UŚ)

Jakub Pączek »

Born in 1984 in Kraków. Graduate of Film Directing at The Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School, Katowice, Poland and History of the Church at The Pontifical Academy of Theology, Kraków, Poland. He has directed several short films based on his own scripts, among them the much acclaimed “The Washing Machine”, “Rolls of Identity”, “The Best Chicks on the Train”, “Buro” and his graduation film “The A Side”. “The 128th Rat” is his thirty-minute professional debut. He also worked as an assistant director to Maciej Pieprzyca in his feature film “Life feels good”. He is now busy editing his newest short entitled “Full Dive” as well as writing and developing several feature-length projects.