Block Music

A series of documentary films dedicated to the culture-forming role of prefabricated buildings. A big house estate is a joint experience for the entire Polish society. Blocks are frequently associated with social problems, confined space, exclusion, alienation, greyness, sense of hopelessness, and social pathology. But are all these connotations true? The film talks about the influence that mass residential architecture has had on generations of Poles from various perspectives including cinema, literature, visual arts, and music The fourth episode tells a story about hip-hop and punk – genres which arose from such cultural background and made a long way from underground to mainstream.