Directed by Maciej J. Drygas • Documentary • 1994 • 60 minutes
State of Weightlessness is a documentary that uses long-duration Soviet space missions as a lens through which to examine the psychological and historical dislocation of the late Cold War period. Drawing on rare audio recordings from orbit, the film explores how cosmonauts experienced isolation, suspension, and uncertainty while the political system that sent them into space was collapsing below. The physical condition of weightlessness becomes a metaphor for a broader state of ideological and existential drift, linking technological ambition to the human consequences of geopolitical transformation.
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Finally Got the News
Directed by Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman and Peter Gessner • Documentary • 1970 • 55 minutes
FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with th...
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Hear My Cry
Directed by Maciej J. Drygas • Documentary • 1991 • 48 minutes
On September 8, 1968, during a harvest festival at the central stadium in Warsaw, Ryszard Siwiec set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His act of defiance, witnessed by thousands, was immediate...
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One Day in People's Poland
Directed by Maciej J. Drygas • Documentary • 2005 • 61 minutes
Nothing special happened in the People's Republic of Poland on September 27. The weather forecast predicted moderate cloudiness. More than 1,600 citizens were born, about 600 died. Day like every day... One Day in People’s Poland tak...
