Destruction 1978
One of the structural films by Jadwiga Singer, showing relations between photo image, film record and reality. "Destruction" can also be interpreted as metaphor of Singer`s personal situation.
One of the structural films by Jadwiga Singer, showing relations between photo image, film record and reality. "Destruction" can also be interpreted as metaphor of Singer`s personal situation.
“The Limits of Human Possibilities” is an example of on-camera performance, a sequence of poses reminiscent of asanas in yoga adapted by the artist, for which the outline of a mountain range is a kind of point of reference.
surrealistic short film
A walking area, work in the tailor’s workshop, a modest meal, an everyday dose of medications taken under the control of medical personnel, an extremely crowded cell – it is a day like every day. No needless words. A moving story of Russian prisoners who have been put into a psychiatric hospital to serve their sentences. It was filmed in Chernyakhovsk (Kaliningrad Oblast) and Syczowce (Smolensk Oblast).
Reporter Egon Ryś accidentally meets Scarecrow. He decides to give him a ride to the scarecrow convention, seeing it as a good topic for an article. The chairman of the meeting, Beelzebub, states that no one is afraid of them anymore, so they should start helping people instead of scaring them. Most of the ghosts are delighted with this idea, but the nobleman Boruta is opposed. He decides to sabotage his colleagues' activities.
Circumstances trigger concoction of desire and guilt, when secrets from past overcast Daniel's existence. He travels through his nightmares to introspect his sexuality. Daniel's survival turns into a mirage, as he finds himself muddled between homosexuality and pedophilia.