Urbex Horror, Stoner Cinema, and Culture Shock | Piotr

Today I spoke with vlogger and filmmaker Piotr Niemczewski. I met Piotr in college where we both studied filmmaking, and from then on became good friends. In this episode, we discuss Piotr's beginnings as an Urbex explorer, his move from mother Poland to the United States, his experiences living with southern Christians despite being a lapsed Catholic himself, our shared adventures in the world of B-rate filmmaking, and the very point of life itself. I doubt we're entirely correct on that last notion... but one must be willing to take the first wrong steps if ever they hope to find the right ones - and two can double those returns.
| Links |
For Piotr Niemczewski:
Current UA-cam channel "TriphunterPL" / @triphunterpl
OG UA-cam channel "Urban Squad" / @urbansquad
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(0:00) Intro
(1:09) What is Urbex?
(6:00) Piotr's first UA-cam channel
(7:55) Living independently as a high schooler
(10:17) Exploring ancient sewers
(13:32) Finding a corpse
(20:22) The chilling effect, humor and fear
(22:31) Discovering student records in an abandoned school
(26:53) The sacred rules of urban exploration
(28:03) The potential to cause harm, weighing outcomes
(30:32) The weight of history in Poland
(34:22) The power of cinema to showcase the important and the unseen
(35:42) Foreign exchange: living with southern Christians as a lapsed Catholic
(42:20) The decline of Catholicism in Poland: "you didn't have a choice"
(45:35) Pursuing film
(47:25) Hollyweird: Working for Charles Band on B-rate movies
(54:51) Digging through a film studio's storage unit
(57:01) Head of the Family, why film students should watch B-rates
(59:09) Commercial work in Poland, wildlife filmmaking
(1:01:03) Documenting the homeless of Venice Beach
(1:05:27) Scrap pirates, the insanity of Los Angeles
(1:09:05) Life is about experience: the good and the bad

[@kristynageorgiew4252]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Nnice vlog!!!!ogladalam Piotrka vlogi z L.A.

[@gracekaminska28]

Garett very interesting interrview whih Piotr. Congrat.

[@AJ_411]

So many points of interest - Urbex: don't you worry about old toxins? And why hasn't there been a movie/book that centers on this and the places discovered? Religion: the differences between Poland and US and how the schools there teach religion (but only one) while here, we've stripped religion out, even by removing the pledge of allegiance. Loved the hollywood industry behind the scenes insights. Great stuff, enjoyed this.