People with no disability lend their healthy limbs to those who have lost an arm or a leg through amputation. Żmijewski portrays them in intimate embraces, blurring the boundaries of their separate bodies and creating a new, multi-limbed entity – and the absence of disability.
Also in this combined programme
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Karolina
What does life and death mean to an 18-year-old girl if you can’t get out of bed due to a serious form of osteoporosis, with endless pain and mo
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KR WP
In this film, Żmijewski – literally – strips patterns of behaviour and rituals. We see soldiers present arms and march: the first time clo
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Cookbook
A one-off cookery course in a women’s prison – with lobster on the menu – highlights the dismal food normally served up in the cells
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Rendez-vous
A silent encounter with Danuta Witkowska and actor Wojciech Królikiewicz in their day-to-day coping with Huntington’s disease.
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Creation in Cooperation
Artur Żmijewski challenges participants in a workshop to present their improvised performances in public spaces, for audiences of random passers-by.
Film details
- Country of production
- Poland
- Year
- 1998
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- File
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