An electric experience | Cine-concert

Łukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski is one of Poland’s most innovative musicians, known for compositions that combine jazz, electronic music, hip-hop, and traditional rhythms. His shows deliver an eclectic, high-energy musical mix layered over film footage or animated paintings. In 2023, alongside the Rebel Babel Film Orchestra, Rostkowski composed the original score for The Peasants (În numele pământului, directed by DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman). Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władysław Reymont, The Peasants is a visually stunning animation that takes viewers back to the late 19th century, into the life of a Polish village deeply connected to nature and tradition.

After filming with actors, the directors collaborated with over 100 artists from Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Serbia, who created oil paintings based on the filmed scenes, which were later assembled and animated. Directors DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman previously used this technique in their Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated feature Loving Vincent (2017). The result is spectacular.

In the multimedia show The Peasants, musician Łukasz L.U.C. Rostkowski and the Rebel Babel Film Orchestra bring the most impressive animated sequences from the film to life by performing the soundtrack live. Using a wide range of traditional Polish instruments—drums, guitar, accordion—as well as unique regional instruments such as the Płock fiddle, flute, and bagpipes, the orchestra explores folk rhythms while reinventing sound through modern arrangements and processing techniques. Choral voices complete the rich soundscape. Lively mazurka and polka rhythms, as well as ancient Slavic music, will resonate throughout The Peasants, a journey through culture, history, and creativity.

The Peasants will take place at the Students House, on Wednesday, June 18, at 7:00 PM.

The show is supported by the Polish Institute in Bucharest.