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I knew that I wanted a story that doesn’t revolve around very big problems. So in this film I knew that I had to take it to the extreme. Putting pieces together to find a form that really suits the story. I wanted to utilize all those elements-take the best that you can from documentary, and all other genres-to convey these emotions. I’m not really inventing the wheel-all these elements have been done in films before. In order to convey these kinds of emotions I knew that I’d have to utilize all of the cinematic language. How did you settle upon an aesthetic and form? How do you pursue those emotions, and couch them in a film? Because you have to determine in a more practical sense whom the film is going to be about, how you’re going to shoot it, what the narrative might be. I’m interested in feelings and emotions, and less about facts.

You have to actively be in it, and everything that you’ve lived through is also part of the story. What really got me into doing documentary was the idea of making films that really bring you into the story, that make you feel like you’re there with the characters, that make you feel like you’re a partner and not just a viewer. There’s such an intimacy to the film, and it feels like there’s so little distance between whom we’re watching and who’s making it. But then you’re getting away from the reality of the emotions and feelings. It’s so easy to heighten emotions and add story points and beats to make the story more dramaturgically interesting. But from the start I felt that I could do this.

#SLEEPLESS NIGHTS MOVIE MOVIE#

But that is something that’s very difficult to make a movie about, and definitely to pitch. I really wanted to make a movie about that. There’s sureness and then unsureness-you know something and then everything turns upside down. When I look back at my youth it’s like a waterfall of feelings and emotions. The idea was to portray those feelings, emotions, energy, and doubts, all of that. I’m 32 and getting over that period, but I still remember it very vividly. About the craziness of youth and the emotions associated with it. What was the central motivating idea for you on this project? It has such a searching quality-what’s being sought? In the following interview, conducted during the opening weekend of the Festival amidst the buzz of surrounding revelers, Marczak talked about the work of cinema he intended to create, the intensity of emotion he hoped to express, and the unique and radical methods he employed to accomplish it. Whatever the film is, it’s intently and undeniably cinematic. And throughout, there’s music, there’s ecstatic experience, and there’s Marczak’s unstoppable camera navigating it all. They go to parties, they get drunk, they end and start relationships, they seem to know what they want and then seem without a clue, sometimes from one scene to the next. It follows two young men-the lithe, chiseled-cheeked Krzysztof, and matinee idol handsome Michal (not the filmmaker)-as they tour the nightlife and everyday trials of young adulthood in Warsaw. Too engaged, interactive, and borderline invasive to be an observational film, but also too spontaneous, in-the-moment reactive, and variously naked to be a work of fiction, All These Sleepless Nights stakes out its own cinematic terrain. Welcome to the world of All These Sleepless Nights, the latest film from Polish director Michal Marczak ( Fuck For Forest).īoldly programmed in the World Documentary Competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, the movie is unlike any other work of nonfiction you’ve seen. The camera is a participant, dancing with its subjects, trying to register each shade of their emotions. The music pounds, young people flirt and dance and mope and opine, and the camera swings all around them, doing more than just watch. The following interview was originally published during the film’s premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. All These Sleepless Nights opens Friday, April 7, at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles before expanding throughout the country.

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