International Competition

When protests broke out in Communist Poland in late 1970, a crisis team gathered in Warsaw. Soon after the militia made use of their batons. Shots were fired. Through archival recordings and animations, viewers can observe various power mechanisms. The film 1970 is a story about a rebellion but told from the perspective of the oppressors. The basis for creating this inversion are archival recordings of telephone conversations of the Communist party leadership, which is shown through stop animation of photographs. The military intervention lasted more than a week with about forty dead and more than a thousand wounded.