Inspired by a workshop sign she found in one of Warsaw’s bleak apartment blocks, Sosnowska painted a pseudo-advertisement that advertises nothing but herself. Her painting of the test card on a TV set is illusionary, using tricks to pull the viewer into optical traps. In a reality where people are being constantly attacked by advertising messages, Sosnowska’s commercially useless image becomes a strange intervention.
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Film details
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Medium/Format
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- Premiere status
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- Director
- Monika Sosnowska
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