Cityscapes

Warsaw – Postsimulacrum

Jacek Nagłowski , (name unknown) | 2025 | Poland | 5’

I Am Night at Noonday (83') & Warsaw_Postsimulacrum (6')
Saturday 11 Oct 2025 | 16:00
LantarenVenster Zaal/Cinema 4Sold out

Shows of Warsaw – Postsimulacrum

I Am Night at Noonday (83') & Warsaw_Postsimulacrum (6')
Saturday 11 Oct 2025 | 16:00
LantarenVenster Zaal/Cinema 4Get TicketsSold out

About the film

A short essay film that uses AI-generated images to recreate the visual language of mid-century newsreels, presenting Warsaw as a city whose identity is continuously reconstructed as a simulation layered over ruins. Razed and rebuilt more than once, Warsaw is a city where reality has long been overtaken by simulacra: replicas of past buildings and symbolic architecture converge into an urban identity shaped as much by fiction as by fact. History, destruction, myth, and ideology blur into a palimpsest of imagined futures and eternal reinvention.

film details

World premiere

Director Jacek Nagłowski , (name unknown)

Country Poland

Year 2025

Runtime 5 Min.

Language Polish

Subtitles English

Type Experimental

film credits

Producer Jacek Nagłowski

With the cooperation of Udio v1.5 , Suno v4 , Kling 1.6 , Runway Gen3 Alpha/Alpha Turbo , MidJourney v6.1 , ElevenLabs Multilingual v2 , Claude 3.6 Sonnet

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As part of: I Am Night at Noonday (83') & Warsaw_Postsimulacrum (6')

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