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The change of the political system that occurred in Poland in the early 1990s brought not only hopes related to the social and economic transformation, but also anxieties and fears. At the time, such fears were treated as evidence of incompatibility with the new capitalist order and thus consistently relegated to the margins of public debate. The film is an attempt to recall the traumatic experiences of this period. In this context, the concept of trauma is directly related to the process of repression, the essence of which coincides with the naturalizing, hegemonic discourse which justifies the social costs of transformation as necessary on the way to modernization. "The Earth Will Swallow it All" is a story about Upper Silesia. It was based on the accounts of mining families, the archives of the Polish Film Chronicle, 3D animations and seismographic charts. The collected materials connect into a description of the social catastrophe, which is shown from the perspective of people who in the past were united by the working-class community.

Dominik Ritszel (b. 1988) active in the area of visual arts. Working with film and video instalations. B.A. Graphics M.A. (2013), doctoral degree (2020) graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Winner of the scholarship Young Poland, listed on the Forbes lists 30 Under 30 Europe, Prize winner of the Trieste Contemporanea Award 2015. Lives and works in Katowice, Poland.