About this project
Hierarchy lost is a short debut movie written and directed by a Cannes Lion Award nominated photographer Andrzej Dragan. The film will be created in collaboration with Waldemar Pokromski, the acclaimed make-up and VFX artist behind Schindler's List, The Pianist, The Ninth Gate, Downfall, Perfume, or White Ribbon.
This independent, non-commercial project has also gathered the best scenographers, stylists and visual artists in our part of Europe and we are all collaborating together for free, or just symbolic rates to make it possible.
This short story of a scientist - quantum physicist making a very strange discovery will be a purely visual experience without a single word spoken. It will be created in the animated style of Andrzej Dragan's portraits.
On the scientific side the project is supervised by Andrzej (who holds a PhD in quantum physics) and his friends and colleagues physicists from the University of Nottingham and University of Cambridge, so this will be a unique marriage between Art and Science. The story takes place in a near future, so we had to create a fictitious "theory of everything" that is being discovered by the main character. Needless to say, the scientist (hopefully together with the viewer) will be shocked by his discovery and its consequences.
Since we want a complete creative independence for this project and we have no commercial goals, we were not looking for financial support from public institutions, we put our own money and time and effort in order to make it happen. Andrzej already almost went bankrupt, but to close the budget there are still extra funds missing and that's where you can really help us out!
On top of our gratitude you, as a (hopefuly! :) contributor to our project, will be rewarded with unique, dedicated numbered prints of Andrzej's works, rare, limited edition albums and catalogues, DVDs and behind-the-scenes materials from the set and even an invitation to an official dinner with Andrzej and his crew. We are also open to any of your suggestions!
If you would like to discover more about Andrzej's work we recommend an interview with him for a Polish public TV (subtitled) about his art and science:
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You'll get a high quality digital download of the movie when the movie is released, a signed dvd with the movie and additional materials (shipping worldwide), and will be thanked in the end-credits. You will also receive a special edition 10x15cm signed and numbered archive print of Andrzej's portrait of David Lynch (2005).
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You'll get a high quality digital download of the movie when the movie is released, a signed dvd with the movie and additional materials (shipping worldwide), and will be thanked in the end-credits. You will also receive a special edition 10x15cm signed and numbered archive print of Andrzej's portrait of David Lynch (2005), as well as a limited edition color 12-pages signed catalogue from one of Andrzej's exhibitions (only the last 50 copies are available and if there is more backers then the receivers of the album will be chosen randomly; remaining backers will receive an extra print).
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You'll get a high quality digital download of the movie when the movie is released, a signed dvd with the movie and additional materials (shipping worldwide), and will be thanked in the end-credits. You will also receive a special edition 15x25cm signed and numbered archive print of Andrzej's portrait of David Lynch (2005)..
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You'll get a high quality digital download of the movie when the movie is released, a signed dvd with the movie and additional materials (shipping worldwide), and will be thanked in the end-credits. You will also receive a special edition 15x25cm signed and numbered archive print of Andrzej's portrait of David Lynch (2005), as well as a very rare color 96-pages signed small album "Allegories & Macabresques" released at Andrzej's exhibition in Milan, Italy (only the last 10 copies are available and if there is more backers then the receivers of the album will be chosen randomly; remaining backers will receive an extra print).
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You or your company will receive special thanks in the end credits of the movie. You will also receive a special edition 20x30cm signed and numbered archive print of my portrait of David Lynch (2005) with a special dedication.
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You will receive an arbitrary size (large format) certified, numbered and signed print of any of my works that are still available from a limited edition of 20 copies (see my website for a selection). The print will have an extra dedication. You will also receive a DVD with the movie and special thanks in the end credits.
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You will be credited as an executive producer of the movie and will receive a special edition of a large format archive signed print selected by you with a special dedication. You will be also invited to a dinner with Andrzej Dragan and other members of the crew (not including the travel) in London or Warsaw.
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Andrzej Dragan - photographer
2010: Silver medal in the International Photography Masters Cup London.
2008: Two gold medals, two silver medals, and two bronze medals at the KTR advertising festival.
2007: Photographer of the Year (Digital Camera Magazine, UK).
2007: Silver medal in the Corbis Photography Awards.
2007: Gold medal in the Golden Drum Advertising Festival.
2007: Two silver medals, and a bronze medal at the KTR advertising festival.
2007: Bronze medal in the Epica Awards.
2007 Third award in the Pilsner Uruquell Contest.
2006: Cannes Lion award nomination at the Cannes Advertising Festival.
2006: Gold and silver medals at the KTR advertising festival.
2006: Featured at Luezer's “200 Best Advertising Photographers Worldwide”.
Involved in portrait photography since 2003. Exhibited his works in galleries in London, Paris,
Amsterdam, New York, Milan, Barcelona, Lille, Bern, Warsaw, and many others. Published his
works and interviewed in magazines, books and albums in over 15 countries.
Worked with the advertising agencies from Brazil, Dubai, Germany, Italy, Poland, and UK: Brain,
DDB, Euro RSCG, Grey, JWT, McCann-Erickson, Ogilvy, Ogilvy, Outfit, Publicis, Scholz & Friends,
and TBWA for the brands like Amnesty International, BBC Channel 4, Converse, Energizer,
Playstation, Police, Polpharma, Xbox, and many others.
Andrzej Dragan - physicist
2010-2012: Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists from the Polish Minister of Education.
2010-2012: Research Fellow at University of Nottingham.
2008-2009: Research Fellow at Imperial College London.
2006-2012: Assistant Professor at University of Warsaw (not permanent).
2005 University textbook on special relativity and introduction to general relativity.
2004 Scholarship Stay with us for exceptional young researchers from the major Polish weekly
magazine Polityka.
2003-2004: National Laboratory FAMO grant.
2003-2004: Committee for Polish Science grant.
2003-2004: Scientific Secretary of the Head Committee for Physics Olympiad.
2003-2005: National Award for Young Scholars, Foundation for Polish Science.
2002: Scholarship at Clarendon Laboratory – practical schemes for generating quantum
entanglement, University of Oxford, UK.
2002: Scientific visit at Experimental Quantum Physics Division, Universitat München, Germany.
2002: European Science Foundation scholarship – using imperfect quantum channels in
communication, University of Oxford, UK.
2002: Summer school on Quantum Information, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.
2001-2005: PhD studies at Institude of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw. Supervisor:
Professor Krzysztof Wódkiewicz. Thesis awarded cum laude: Single photon communication
through noisy quantum channels.
2001: European Science Foundation scholarship, quantum nonlocality, University of Oxford, UK.
2001: First Award of the Polish Physical Society for the best MSc thesis in physics in Poland.
2000: Socrates-Erazmus scholarship – dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate, Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam, Holland (six months).
1997-2001: MSc studies completed over one year ahead at University of Warsaw. Exams,
studies and thesis rated A+ (outstanding). Supervisor: Dr Konrad Banaszek. Thesis awarded cum
laude: Homodyne Bell inequalities for optical Schroedinger cat states.
Andrzej Dragan - composer
Involved in music composing between 1993-1996. Awarded in several music composing
competitions in Poland, Holland, Italy, and Denmark.
