Stanislaw Petruk
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The Milan Machinima Festival is excited to present Stanislaw Petruk's The Remnants, a short film created with the Unreal Engine set five years after a global disaster, where the remaining population is struggling to survive as the planet slowly dies. The machinima portrays the struggle for survival and the harsh reality of human nature in a post-apocalyptic world.
The Remnants will be exclusively screened at the Museum of Interactive Cinema on March 25 2023 as part of the Utopia/Dystopia program. Buy your ticket here.
Born in 1987, Stanisław Petruk is a filmmaker and Sr. VFX artist at Avalanche Studios in Sweden. He has directed several shorts and worked on video games such as WWE Immortals, Mortal Kombat, Agents of Mayhem, The Walking Dead, and Saints Row. He lives and works in Stockholm.
Matteo Bittanti discussed the creative and technical process behind The Remnants with the filmmaker, Stan Petruk.
Matteo Bittanti: Although you’re very young, you’ve already lived in several countries. How would you describe, comparatively, the social and cultural perception of video games in Russia, Poland, and Sweden, where you currently live and work?
Stanislaw Petruk: The great thing about the games is that they are very international. And here I am talking not only about players, but also about developers. And I think on the development side it is even more visible. You can easily move from one company to another even in a different country and work pipeline will be identical, same about the language – English for all communication and documentation.
Matteo Bittanti: You describe yourself as a self-taught artist, as you crafted your skills as a VFX artist and as a filmmaker mostly through online courses, tutorials, and hard work. Can you discuss your upbringing as somebody who “grew up on the internet”, so to speak?
Matteo Bittanti
Works cited
Stanislaw Petruk
The Remnants
digital video, sound, 7’ 7”, 2022, Sweden
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