Poor film students spend all their time studying feature films, but they're forced to make short films as their student projects. Short films aren't the same thing.
In this movie, future director Krzysztof Kieslowski plays a tortured artist. He expresses the depth of his distress by desperately lighting a cigarette. Both these things---the tortured artist and smoking as a sign of emotional distress---are widely ridiculed tropes in American student films, but if Polish film students do the same thing, there must be something to it.
Tortured artist examines his face in the mirror and goes nuts attacking his supply of self-portraits. Directed by Kieslowski's classmate, Piotr Studzinski. Kieslowski went on to direct such movies as A Short Film About Killing.
Six minutes. Available on The Criterion Channel.
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