The classic Slavic witch figure, Baba Jaga, is reimagined as a “prehistoric goddess from the times of the matriarchy” using found footage from the Polish Educational Film Studio archive. This transformation incites layered reflections on kinship and identity, guided by a child grappling with binary gender roles. The often sexist and anthropocentric images, created as didactic materials in the communist era, are repurposed into an emotive portrait of a multispecies matriarchal family seeking freedom and empowerment.
– Leonie Woodfin
Also in this combined programme
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A Radical Duet
Archives and histories come to life in this imagining of a radical anti-colonial play.
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, Poland
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 23"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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