Szulkin made six feature films. The first four are free on ninateka.pl till the end of September (without English subtitles). To me the best of this series of semi futuristic metaphors is “Obi-oba, the end of civilisation” (koniec cywilizacji).
Some of its images are hard to forget. For example a crazed, starved crowd fights over the food, a pulp from shredded books and the bible, dispensed from large overhead tube.
The second in the series “The ward of the worlds: next century” got the main prize at a film festival where Sam Peckinpah headed the jury. Szulkin recalls that during the festival Peckinpah stopped him on the street and asked “Are you Szulkin?” When Szulkin confirmed, Peckinpah responded “too bad”. This exchange got some questioning in the book long interview with Szulkin, where its gist was - if I remember - that perhaps Peckinpah saw something in Szulkin that immediately telegraphed to him that Szulkin’s brilliance would for some reason not translate into a global success. And it did not. Very sad.
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