About the film

Poland was a strange place for him. Even the rain was louder, as if in a land of deaf people. People gathered in queues for hours but they never spoke to each other. A romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz led him to the underworld and helped him contact Polish spirits. He survived the martial law period when the evil white water came from the sky, water that could not satisfy thirst. Finally he decided to perform a great vodou ceremony to free the Polish people from evil forces. The dead and alive unite in battle. The spirit of the Polish romanticism unites with the Haitian loa spirits just as 200 years ago, during the great revolution in Haiti.

An unknown story of a Haitian vodou priest, Amon Frémon, who visited the People’s Republic of Poland in 1980. A metaphysical view on time of socialism through the eyes of a stranger form a different culture.

Wybrane festiwale i nagrody / Selected festivals and awards: 2013 – Visions du Réel, Nyon; 2013 – PLANETE+ DOC FF

Attend the Val Jeanty concert following the screening of the film “The Art of Disappearing”. Warsaw, Friday, May 17, Festival Club Cafe Kulturalna. Wroclaw, Saturday, May 18, Festival Club Niskie Łąki.