Geometra

Geometra 1976

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An experimental documentary. Using several series of static shots, the film depicts the lives of the residents of a housing estate.

1976

Doniczka

Doniczka 1972

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A documentary film experiment consisting of repeating the same sequence of shots ten times, depicting a flowerpot falling from a tenement window. The shots gradually lengthen, revealing new details about the world depicted.

1972

Polewacz polany

Polewacz polany 1974

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A series of film experiments carried out by visual artists during the Biennale of Spatial Forms in Elbląg in 1973.

1974

Bloodless Hunt

Bloodless Hunt 1939

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First film by Włodzimierz Puchalski, that headstarted his career as a nature filmmaker. His photo album came out under the same name in 1951.

1939

I Am Electric

I Am Electric 2005

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A performance staged during the WRO 96 festival, entitled Monitor Polski. The artist presented a device in which his body was a conductor through which electricity flowed, with the voltage gradually increased at the artist's request and with the participation of the audience. Interest in the phenomenon of energy and reflection on artistic creation had already appeared in Robakowski's earlier works, such as O palcach (About Fingers, 1982) and Moje Videomasochizmy (My Videomasochisms, 1989).

2005

Come to Me

Come to Me 1989

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The camera records the trajectory and dynamics of Robakowski's movement: he walks along the white line painted on the football pitch.

1989

Ogrody Tadeusza Reichsteina

Ogrody Tadeusza Reichsteina 1994

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A filmed portrait of Professor Tadeusz Reichstein, discoverer of cortisone and holder of the patent for the production of vitamin C, a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1950. Born in Włocławek at the end of the nineteenth century, Professor Reichstein lectures in Basel and holds Swiss citizenship. A man of remarkable modesty who avoids the media, he nevertheless makes an exception for Polish journalists. In the film, he speaks about his life and scientific career.

1994