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experimental short film

experimental short film

Teresa Tyszkiewicz's last film is at the same time her only work realized in this medium in France, where the artist emigrated in 1982. The film features a sequence with the pin process and large-format works realized in this technique, as if the artist was making a peculiar declaration: after making ARTA, Tyszkiewicz devotes herself almost entirely to the performative and painstaking pin process.

“Stalin seemed cool to kids from my year, it was this amazing facade.” Andrzej Wolski looks at the experience of childhood in socialist Poland and at the propaganda that reached the youngest and about how, through play, attempts were made to develop specific social attitudes. The toys given to tgem prepared them for adulthood and suggested to them who they were to become in the future.

Żmijewski organised a fashion and beauty show for detainees at a women's prison. Faces made up and hair sprayed, the women proudly parade past their cell doors showing off their catwalk moves. Self-expression and freedom are the main focus, not appearance.

"Little hot summer" are four stories that have little to do with reality, connected with the figure of the ubiquitous Father Dobrodziej.

“The Landscape is a film on moving, being held and being placed in places and in between places. There is no explanation on the story behind it. There is no deeper thought or symbolism behind it. Like driving, listening to the music and looking at the landscape. All passes by”. – KG

Two birds are placed by strange hands in a completely new environment for them. A relationship between the animals is inevitable and the hands play a significant role in it.

Arnold has been participating in a competition for unusual swimming equipment for twenty-three years and builds incredible boats and rafts every year. As always, the whole family supports him. Bozen's wife and two adult daughters Dagna and Marika help him build a new ship. However, from the very beginning, the design work is not going according to plan… In addition, Arnold decides to end his career and participate in the competition for the last time. He hopes that his family can get on the podium and win for the last time.

An old man in a twilight of his life longs for his greatest passion – flying. He does not remember people or events from the past anymore, but his feelings remain the same when he looks up at the sky. The former ace, now all that he has left are memories.

A group of school friends are trying to prevent two mysterious women from searching for a missing teddy bear endowed with magical powers.

Parodist deformation of the famous painting by Manet Luncheon on the Grass.

The story of a 83-year old granny who recently started using Facebook.

Julia is spending her summer alone by the sea. She's trying to meet new people through Tinder.

In a polish countryside lives a woman who's really close to nature. During the night, she performs rituals like burning roses or cleansing with a hen's egg.

Karol is performing as a drag queen, Lola. He's trying to fit into the new environment and find his true self.

Gustowska recorded the protagonists, three pairs of female twins, in different situations and in the course of the passing time. The camera registered the changes that gradually occurred in the young women, capturing the differences and similarities between the siblings.

“The End The End” shows an interest in the film-making process as a subject. The motif of closed composition is of a circular nature, in which the end signifies the return to the point of departure, and is frequently employed by the artist.

Picture of a fight between two women in which the victim is a judge - a man. 'Re-discovered' film by Jadwiga Singer.

“A great fire at night always has a thrilling and exhilarating effect. This is what explains the attraction of fireworks. (...) A real conflagration is a very different matter. Then the horror and a certain sense of personal danger (...) produce on the spectator a certain concussion of the brain (...). This sinister sensation is almost always fascinating”. F. Dostoevsky, “The devils”

surrealistic short film

The demons of extreme nationalism regularly recur in Poland. Likewise, a growing level of internal social and political polarization. For the last few years the celebrations of the Independence Day ended up in violent demonstrations, the devastation of Warsaw and brutal clashes between the extreme nationalist elements with the police and leftist activists. Internal conflicts and political tensions had been growing in the days preceding the parliamentary elections. Protests, demonstrations and manifestations. Tensions were growing. On the 25th of October 2015 the elections took place. The effects of the elections, resulting in democratic crisis, are all widely commented not only in Poland.

A small village, a sleepy winter landscape, a dairy farm. Suddenly, one of the calves is taken away from its safe home and put in a tractor trailer.

A film about contemporary Belarus, freedom and art. A mysterious artist appears on the streets of Minsk and starts to paint. Passers-by, intrigued, want to know what he is creating, but the artist will not reveal his secret. Step by step, the viewers learn more about him. His name is Zahar Cudin and he is one of the most promising Belorussian painters.

Betina Bożek invites the spectators to the journey to Kaprysia, a planet invented by herself. Its residents spend time at work, in the gym or in the bar and prepare themselves for a great party. Anything is allowed in their crazy world and they change their irregular shapes fluently, depending on the mood. On the day of the party, they have to deal with the invasion of strangers from an alien planet – bitter and blue geometric figures. Who will win this skirmish? The film is a wild animation affirming joy and good fun.

Human skin is a leather cover for the interior. We will leave our covers just like abandoned coats in wardrobe.

Colorful impression for the youngest spectators explaining the differences between the circle and the ball, and showing the possibility of turning the circle into an ellipse.

Tales of mischief, love and marriage amidst rural workers in Poland.

Experimental animation by Janek Koza

With a strange twist of fate, the little circus actors are flying out into space and experiencing unlikely adventures.

A hand-drawn animation that attempts to ask questions about the place of women in the modern reality. The film is (unfortunately) inspired by everyday life, statements of public figures, and the media.

Four people with different approaches to BDSM and visions of themselves. In this world anonymity meets self-awareness and safety confronts riding on the edge.

The poetic work of Ewa Partum consisted in scattering single alphabet letters into a non-artistic space: be it the open air, sea, or an underpass. This gesture led to the deconstruction of a language whereupon grammatical, syntactic and semantic structures were used to determine certain patterns of an artistic statement. Her poems were shaped by coincidence, which made their language more open and process-orientated. The confrontation with the elements associated with femininity (water, wind) made it possible to face the patriarchal patterns rooted in the language.

Experimental animation short from Poland.

The Nurse of the Poznan Hospital takes care of the newborn babies. From time to time she meets very lonely newborns that are taken away from their parents or are unwanted. All these situations are very sad. The Nurse takes care of these lonely newborns, even staying after work to make their first day better by giving them a heart therapy.