Following Bauhaus
In search of a 'new visual reality', Żmijewski and the local art community in Liverpool re-implement Bauhaus ideals 80 years later.
12'
Poland
IFFR 2018
Artists and steel workers collaborate to create a public sculpture. A 1960s thing, inspired by the concept of a classless society in which art and industry presented a single front. Żmijewski documents a modern meeting of and for various classes. Will it lead to unity?
Also in this combined programme
Habana Libre
A portrait of Havana and its inhabitants. There’s work and play, shopping and singing. Castro and the USA are miles away.
25'
Poland
IFFR 2018
Out for a Walk
Staff at a rehabilitation clinic, but also performer and a dancer, lack strength as they support their patients whilst walking. Dependency is perhaps the lame body’s biggest handicap.
9'
Poland
IFFR 2018
- Director
- Artur Żmijewski
- Country of production
- Poland
- Production Year
- 2009
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 23'
- Medium
- File
- Language
- Polish
- Producer
- Karina Dzieweczyńska
- Production Company
- Center for Culture, Sport and Recreation in Świecie
- Sales
- Galerie Peter Kilchmann
- Cinematography
- Łukasz Konopa, Zofia Waślicka, Rafał Żurek
- Editor
- Leszek Molski
- Sound Design
- Marcin Bociński
Programme
Artur Żmijewski
In his work the Polish artist systematically challenges the viewer to reconsider their own ideas about social norms.
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Painting sessions with six blind people lead to conversations about shape, colour, reality and what it means to be sightless.
18'
Poland
IFFR 2018
The Collection: Katarzyna
Quiet observation of a physically handicapped woman reveals that effortless movement isn’t always a given. Element of the multi-part The Collection (2016).
5'
Poland
IFFR 2018
The Collection: Roman
A man with a physical disability steps with the greatest difficulty through a still decor made up of light and shadow. Part of the series The Collection (2016).
5'
Poland
IFFR 2018