Dr Piotr Cieplak’s research film, Do You Remember That Year? (UK, 2021) premiered in the international competition at the long-running Avanca International Film Festival in Portugal at the end of July. The film also won the Best International Premiere Video award at the festival. 

DYRY? is an experimental, iPhone-shot film about anxiety, privilege, and the tricky business of bad things happening to us while even worse things happen to others. Formally experimental and narrated by a human and a computer voice, DYRY? is a meditation on how fast-paced, goal-oriented, and measurable our lives have become. It’s an exploration of whether anxiety is something entirely individual or maybe something that comes, at least in part, from how humans treat themselves, each other and the planet.
 
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The film has also been selected in the official selection of the South Coast Film Festival in Hastings and will be screening there in October.