Żmijewski has six blind people make paintings. Memories, hands and feet dictate their images’ shape; wet and dry paint guide them across the canvas. Painting is feeling. The painting sessions invariably lead to conversations about shape, colour, reality and what it’s like to be sightless.
Also in this combined programme
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Singing Lesson 1
A group of deaf-mute students sings mass at a church in Warsaw. The students cannot hear themselves or each other, but music is music. -
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 Co -
The Making Of
Żmijewski organised a fashion and beauty show for detainees at a women’s prison: self-expression and freedom are the main focus, not appear -
Glory to the Academy
At Żmijewski and Paweł Althamer’s request, a group of artists design an exhibition about the human body. A homage to art school.
Film details
- Country of production
- Poland
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- File
