The Parade 1987
The harvest season recalls past time, gives rise to reflections, memories. The logic of the aftermath of events is replaced here by the logic of memory.
The harvest season recalls past time, gives rise to reflections, memories. The logic of the aftermath of events is replaced here by the logic of memory.
Film about two old women working many years in the loading, unloading and transporting of bricks.
“This movie is a representation of my spirit’s volatile state. I used animation with poetic comment to analyze my emotions and vexations. I used pencil drawings in translucent frames to show a state of lightness. On the drawings you can see the elements taken from imagination and from real external sights. I did so because our mental states are built from what we can see and what we remember or imagine in abstraction.”—Wojciech Bakowski
„Kiss“ brings to mind the contemporary GIF graphic format, which nowadays enjoys massive popularity – a moving image suspended halfway between photography and film. It features a single gesture – originally intimate and sensual – that with time and repetition becomes absurd and unreal.
A short film focusing on the lives and problems of the elderly in Poland circa 1986.
A haunting theatrical memory play in which actors and their mannequin doubles reenact five episodes, from a wedding to a last supper, set in the claustrophobic room of the director’s own childhood village of Wielopole. Through repeated motifs, mirrored characters, and a living stage that Kantor continually “resets,” the piece collapses past and present, life and death, into a surreal reconstruction of personal and collective history.
A portrait of 99-year-old polish textile artist Krystyna-Wojtyna Drouet in her day-to-day life in a small studio in Warsaw. Her hands weave wool threads on the loom, intertwining with verses of her poetry, memories, photos from travels and recipes for natural dyes, revealing a sensorial and poetic glimpse into her inner world.