เป็นที่นิยม จาก Poland

Documentary about pensioners struggling with loneliness and old age.

The film is a reflection on the cultural and psychological space attributed to women in the collective consciousness, and above all in contemporary iconosphere. The artist creates characters and situations arranged in a complex in meaning and visual variation on the theme of erotic symbols and incarnations and sexual stereotypes, revealing thus their influence on essentialist vision of women in modern life and visual culture.

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.

“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

A short film focusing on the lives and problems of the elderly in Poland circa 1986.

Like warriors preparing for battle, these labourers strap on all manner of protective equipment before going to work down on their hands and knees in molten tar, road-laying. The final application of paint markings indicates a job well done, but with the terrifying fall of a pickax, the cycle begins again.

Images of nature with no human presence are contrasted with an urban industrial landscape.