Psotnik in the Glass Trap 2021
The enchanted town hides many attractions at night, but not all of them are here to amuse the guests. So beware because once you plunge into madness, there will be no going back.
The enchanted town hides many attractions at night, but not all of them are here to amuse the guests. So beware because once you plunge into madness, there will be no going back.
A woman feels that she is losing the meaning of life, she is unable to feel anything. The magical power of the moonlight begins to attract her.. She falls in love with it and makes a serious decision.
Citizens of Nowhere delves into the experience of citizenship, nationality, and identity. The film is a personal response to the Brexit referendum and the increased xenophobia that followed, created by Zuzanna Rabikowska — a Polish filmmaker who moved to the UK as a child with her mother and sister in 2001.
The MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German KdF flagship during 1937-1945, constructed by the Blohm & Voss shipyards. It sank after being torpedoed by the Soviet submarine S-13 on 30 January 1945. The Wilhelm Gustloff's final voyage was during Operation Hannibal in January 1945, when it was sunk while participating in the evacuation of military personnel, Nazi officials and civilians who were surrounded by the Red Army in East Prussia. The Gustloff was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea on the night of 30 January 1945 and sank in less than 45 minutes. An estimated 9,400 people were killed in the sinking. If accurate, this would be the largest known loss of life occurring during a single ship sinking in recorded maritime history. Now, NGC examines the events leading up to the catastrophe and looks for answers to the mystery surrounding the fateful night.
My project shows an attempt to cope with everyday existence and give it meaning. In the chaos of events, thoughts, issues, routine and everyday rituals become a safe haven that protects us from asking ourselves questions about meaning, etc. Treatments around the body, obsession with beauty and youth, excessive health care give us the illusion of controlling time and body. Bursting, splitting, striking out, alienating is not the result of a symptom, a disease manifestation of its existence. This is just because there is a crack, split, alienating fission in human nature.
A short story about struggling with lack, emptiness, loneliness.
An animated poetic etude with dry pastels. Empty beaches, peace, the sound of waves and contact with nature - time for reflection and silence.
Mariola Wawrzusiak-Borcz is an artist-welder and the professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. She roams post-industrial areas in search of scrap metal, which she uses in her artwork. During the welding process she creates sculptures of animals and children affected by war. She fulfils her obsessive need to create art in spite of her painful hand condition. That's how she criticizes the mankind.
In Great Zimbabwe, the Rozvi Empire attempts to steal the Moon from the sky because it looks like a plate. The country suffers a severe famine, but the Moon is a magical woman who wants to go down her own way
Robert, a young actor living a life of lost relationships. A day on a film set, his obsessive roommate Basia follows him to make him see her breakdown. Quietly he watches as they're taking her away.
These intimate situations were recorded with a phone, registered on a VHS tape or filmed using a digital camera. Jakub Ciosiński shows the life of a three-generational family in the context of love failures and problems with relationship building.
3 generations, 3 narrations, 3 different points of view. A dance of generations.
Vitali has always wanted to be a priest. There is only one thing left to do: according to the rules of the Eastern Orthodox Church, he needs to find a wife. Waiting for the change to come, he rents a flat with a friend from the seminary. They turn the two tiny rooms filled with books and icons into their own world, living beyond time and mundane rules. Years go by and Vitali’s family in Belarus is still waiting for the return of the priest.