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Every traveler knows this feeling: moving landscape, rhythmical rumble of the train and a head full of thoughts. Time slows down encouraging an inner journey, as a lonely woman sinks deeper and deeper into her memories. She is traveling to her family: to an absent husband and her child whom she can't learn to miss. She's coming back but in her thoughts she's traveling again. Space-time turns, departures and returns mix into a confusing life journey. In the empty train drama slowly evolves.

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.

At first glance, it seems that Square lives in a chaotic and endlessly changing geometry. But the systems in which he functions are constantly repeated, introduce a daily routine, hypnotize without allowing any movement. Once, a new element sneaks into the pattern, which for a moment will allow Square to view reality from a different angle.

A portrait of the family life in the face of the mother’s passing away. Three growing children, including the film director, have accompanied the ill woman for good or for bad, while in the background there are incidents, incomprehensible at first sight, related to the conflict with the confrontational father. The documentary utilises the means typical for home video and the takes shot using a mobile phone, which are arranged into a non-chronological reconstruction of the state of mind of the three young people.

Olaf is 25 years old and lives with his mom and grandmother in a tenement house in the Kazimierz district in Krakow. Their home is actually quite dilapidated. Yet the young man dreams that the house in Brzozowa Street is the centre of the universe. The unique narrative is enhanced by a surreal impression of living in an abandoned house. Olaf notices metaphysical consequences of living in the vicinity of a square shaped like the “eye of god”: “There are moments when my mind transcends time and space” he says.

Polish artist Artur Zmijewski asked a group of visually impaired people to paint the world as they see it. Some of the volunteers were congenitally disabled; others became blind in their lifetime. In the film they draw self-portraits and landscapes, occasionally asking the artist for instructions or giving verbal explanation for their decisions. Their paintings are clumsy and abstract. It is however not the resulting works but the process of making them that is at the core of the film.

The concert "The Best of Maanam" took place in Krakow in 1994, where the band performed their greatest hits. The whole thing was recorded by Telewizja Polska and broadcast on TVP Kultura.

Film focuses on story of a woman whose fears and obsessions are taking over her everyday routine, transforming her life into all-embracing jungle. It symbolizes the struggle with personality disorders while being in a relationship with beloved one. It is an visual analysis on separation anxiety disorder that occurs mostly in childhood but can be present at all stages of life.

The film „Reverberation” comprises recordings of five music performances that took place in peripheral spaces of Silesia. The performances were held in temporary “non-places” of undetermined statuses. These areas became filled with unwanted music – unpleasant noise driven out of urban spaces. The premise behind the film project involved seeking new contexts for marginal sound; the consecutive segments-concerts made up a tale of man’s acting in a space, while the noise generated by the artists became a metaphor of man’s interference with the environment.

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.

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".

A young man lives constantly in a fantasy world, until he starts working for a railroad company.