This will be short and brief as we have to go test out the film at our venue tonight in Krakow, but the Lodz premiere of “After the Factory” was a blast. The theatre sold out, in fact there were so many people that they set up an additional screening room downstairs and then are scheduling another screening tonight.

Pretty incredible.

After the screening, Psychocukier, the band from Lodz featured in the film, played a real humdinger of a show immediately following, and it was really great. They opened their set with “Królestwo,” the song that is featured in the film (listen to it here). An energetic set followed, and just all around good times with those guys and the rest of the bunch at Topografie and everyone else that came out for the screening.

Below are photos, all taken by Topografie staff. This particular one is the main screening room. As you can see, pretty full:

The makeshift extra screening room:

Psychocukier playing afterwards:

Andrew (editor), Steven (director of photography) and I at the after party:

Additional screenings throughout Poland were to all packed houses. We even had some folks from Detroit come out in Krakow. In Warsaw, we had an open discussion following the film lasting well over and hour. People are clearly interested in the topic, with all kinds of different thoughts about what is good/bad/in between. Certainly enough, one of the most valuable components of the screenings is being able to talk about it after.

Tonight we will be in Berlin for a screening at the Center for Metropolitan Studies. More info in the screenings section of the site.