30 Sound Situations

30 Sound Situations 1975

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30 Sound Situations is a performance which maps the acoustic properties of numerous divergent environments. In each situation, the artist stands in front of the camera (at various distances) and claps two pieces of wood against one another with sweeping gestures. The resulting sounds relate directly to the presented spaces, including: classroom, library, staircase, woodshop, backyard, and park, among others. Waśko taps into various sound effects in order to examine the potential for creating a new representation of space in film.

1975

Normal Subjects

Normal Subjects 1998

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First piece of material documentation of Neurobot has been created in the project Normal Subjects, which centered on the futility of brain-mapping procedures and long-forsaken science of phrenology, as opposed to "normal" daily postures and routines by various subjects shown in 3-minute video loops, accompanied by 3-minute compositions.

1998

HIV in Polish

HIV in Polish 2017

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Despite the increase in Polish people’s awareness when it comes to sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including HIV/AIDS, they are still a taboo subject, a substitute topic, an unsaid one. This way, the number of people exposed to virus transmission increases. Silence is not the solution. The story depicted in the film revolves around the presence of HIV/AIDS in Poland. It deliberates over tolerance and social attitude towards this problem, over openness and eventually anxiety. People living with the virus and those who live in ignorance saying “But that doesn’t apply to me” both fall victim’s to this anxiety.

2017

Wielki wiec. Dodatek nadzwyczajny PKF

Wielki wiec. Dodatek nadzwyczajny PKF 1956

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A historical documentation of a public manifestation at Plac DEfilad in Warsaw, on October 24th 1956, where Wladyslaw Gomolka, the new First Secretary of the Polish United Worker's Party, was making a speech to an audience of more than four hundred thousand people. Gomolka's election was not approved by Khrustchev and sparked hope for new socialism, with "human face".

1956

Rocky Soil

Rocky Soil 1956

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A documentary with traces of a feature film, about an altruistic doctor from Gorice village. Despite having a modern health centre at his disposal, he struggles with people's distrust and backwardness. "I knew that they are hiding the sick in their cottages just now. Hiding them from me, from a doctor taking sick children to hospital by force and with the help of the Citizen's Militia officers".

1956

Leather

Leather 2019

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

2019

Crossbow

Crossbow 1963

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Bolek and Lolek repeat the legendary shot to an apple. Bolek places an apple on Lolek's head and shoots a crossbow.

1963

SIKSA. Stabat Mater Dolorosa

SIKSA. Stabat Mater Dolorosa 1970

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Musical based on SIKSA's album is a performative dream of making a movie come true, where both the dream and the movie are like chewing gum that has been tasteless for too long. A nostalgic invitation to a dancing story about a girl returning to her childhood, when she dressed up as different women using her mother's wardrobe, and all the roles she played were to please herself. This film is a tool for reconstructing the scenes from the youth, as well as a baroque farewell to all the glitter and unicorns. Stabat Mater Dolorosa is like a bayonet slashing through modern times. She gives us micro-performances with all her body, and at her own risk. SIKSA's music is the scenario rejected, grinded, spat out, negated and intensified by the characters. Piotr Macha's camera is one of the murder weapons that SIKSA would like to use to fuck up the modern reality. It's a language of art that SIKSA has been using almost unnoticed since 2014.

1970