Artur Żmijewski
Overview of films
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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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Them
Żmijewski brings together opposing social groups – and sets them against one another – in a series of workshops focusing on how we imagine
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Sculpture Plein-air. Swiecie 2009
Artists and steel workers collaborate to create a public sculpture. A meeting of and for various classes, but will it lead to unity?
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Blindly
Painting sessions with six blind people lead to conversations about shape, colour, reality and what it means to be sightless.
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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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Habana Libre
A portrait of Havana and its inhabitants. There’s work and play, shopping and singing. Castro and the USA are miles away.
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Following Bauhaus
In search of a ‘new visual reality’, Żmijewski and the local art community in Liverpool re-implement Bauhaus ideals 80 years later.
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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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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
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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
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Realism
On 16mm film, Żmijewski filmed six men who had had a leg amputated. They look us in the eye, each from his own frame, and silently show us their disab