The director/cinematographer built a custom rig so he could "shoot documentary in a cinematic way," modifying a gimbal so that it fit into his backpack and allowed him to shoot in close quarters. Marczak's sweeping camera is a character unto itself. We pushed that camera to its fucking maximum, and with the combination of software, color grading, and effects, we were able to push it even a step further." "It's about pushing the technology you have. Like Joachim Trier's magnificent Oslo, August 31st, All These Sleepless Nights has the mesmerizing, hypnotic feeling of teenage abandon. Marczak films them in unpredictable and intimate situations that feel too meticulously shot to be unscripted, but too visceral and spontaneous to be fiction. The docu-fiction hybrid, which Marczak filmed in Warsaw using non-actors, follows the misadventures of a pair of teenage boys over the course of many sleepless nights during which they party, meet girls, dance, wander aimlessly, and pontificate, usually while drunk or high (or both). Polish filmmaker Michal Marczak's All These Sleepless Nights is adolescence in experiential cinema form.
A time when the simplest of life's pleasures-a good song, a first kiss, the first light of dawn-felt immeasurable in their beauty. A time when emotions were unnavigable, like a hedge maze of thorns designed specifically to trap you and only you.
A time when time itself seemed endless, provoking both impulsivity and utter boredom. What does adolescence feel like? I think of a time when the world was at once too small and too big-constrictive in its physical size, but nearly paralyzing in its existential questions.
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