21 X New York

In an intimate portrait of the city and its people, the director first introduces the characters in the NYC subway and then follows them to the surface in order to find out more about their lives, cravings, passions, hopes and dreams – sometimes lost and sometimes still waiting to be discovered. While Stasik's latest picture betrays echoes of avant-gardist fascination with a pulsating town organism, he is obviously more interested in what's going on under the surface – both literally and figuratively. The author sketches fleeting portraits of people in frenetic sequences, only to develop their characters through open and honest testimonies featured on an asynchronous soundtrack. The outcome is an emotional tale of solitude that haunts us in 21st century western world. (IFF Bratislava)