Vampires, It’s Nothing To Laugh At
Film by Kinga Michalska
36min, Documentary, Canada, 2023
World premiere: Visions du Réel
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1056776869
Distribution: Vidéographe
Watch online Worldwide: DaFilms
Watch online in Canada: Vithèque, Tenk
Synopsis:
In the 1960s, an anthropologist thinks he has discovered the existence of a vampire woman in a Kashub community in Wilno, Ontario. Kinga Michalska returns to the village still recovering from the trauma of this coverage, using a skillful blend of archival footage and performance to question the relationship between lived reality and scientific "truth". The film is a critical reflection on how we tell stories of others and asks who is the real vampire - the scientist, the audience, the tourists, the community or the filmmaker themself?
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Screening history:
2023 Visions du Réel, International Film Festival, International Medium Length Film Competition - Special Mention, Nyon, Switzerland (World Premiere)
2023 Short Waves Film Festival, International Competition, Poznań, Poland
2023 Festival De Nouveau Cinéma, National Short Film Competition, Montréal, Canada
2023 DMZ DOCS International Documentary Film Festival, Goyang-si, South Korea
2023 30_____70 DOC FEST, Lago, Italy
2023 Muzeum Piśmiennictwa i Muzyki Kaszubsko-Pomorskiej w Wejherowie, Kaszubskie Wampiry, Kaszëbë
2024 InScience Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2024 Diffusions Film Festival, Official Selection, Toronto, ON, Canada
2024 Pariscience Film Festival, Official Selection, Paris, France
2025 Guerrilla Collective, Special Screening: Developing the Vanished, Beijing, China
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Film by Kinga Michalska
36min, Documentary, Canada, 2023
World premiere: Visions du Réel
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1056776869
Distribution: Vidéographe
Watch online Worldwide: DaFilms
Watch online in Canada: Vithèque, Tenk
Synopsis:
In the 1960s, an anthropologist thinks he has discovered the existence of a vampire woman in a Kashub community in Wilno, Ontario. Kinga Michalska returns to the village still recovering from the trauma of this coverage, using a skillful blend of archival footage and performance to question the relationship between lived reality and scientific "truth". The film is a critical reflection on how we tell stories of others and asks who is the real vampire - the scientist, the audience, the tourists, the community or the filmmaker themself?
Screening history:
2023 Visions du Réel, International Film Festival, International Medium Length Film Competition - Special Mention, Nyon, Switzerland (World Premiere)
2023 Short Waves Film Festival, International Competition, Poznań, Poland
2023 Festival De Nouveau Cinéma, National Short Film Competition, Montréal, Canada
2023 DMZ DOCS International Documentary Film Festival, Goyang-si, South Korea
2023 30_____70 DOC FEST, Lago, Italy
2023 Muzeum Piśmiennictwa i Muzyki Kaszubsko-Pomorskiej w Wejherowie, Kaszubskie Wampiry, Kaszëbë
2024 InScience Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2024 Diffusions Film Festival, Official Selection, Toronto, ON, Canada
2024 Pariscience Film Festival, Official Selection, Paris, France
2025 Guerrilla Collective, Special Screening: Developing the Vanished, Beijing, China
