Żmijewski: Tension

IFFR 2018

Artur Żmijewski challenges participants in a workshop to present their improvised performances in public spaces, for audiences of random passers-by.

Deep Focus

Artur Żmijewski

Creation in Cooperation

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 <strong>The Collection </strong>(2016).

The Collection: Roman

Portraits of people with and without amputated limbs: in intimate embraces, the division between bodies and able/disabled is resolved, forming a single entity.

An Eye for an Eye

Quiet observation of a physically handicapped woman reveals that effortless movement isn’t always a given. Element of the multi-part <strong>The Collection</strong> (2016).

The Collection: Katarzyna

A silent encounter with Danuta Witkowska and actor Wojciech Królikiewicz in their day-to-day coping with Huntington’s disease.

Rendez-vous

In this film, Żmijewski – literally – strips patterns of behaviour and rituals. We see soldiers present arms and march: the first time clothed, the second time naked.

KR WP

Painting sessions with six blind people lead to conversations about shape, colour, reality and what it means to be sightless.

Blindly

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.

Inmates in a women&rsquo;s prison take a cookery course from two chefs. They create a luxurious evening meal &ndash; with lobster on the menu &ndash; while scenes edited in parallel show the food normally served up in the cells. This makes it painfully clear how dull life in the prison usually is.

Cookbook

In his work the Polish artist systematically challenges the viewer to reconsider their own ideas about social norms.

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 morphine?

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025