saturday, april 26 at 2:30 p.m.
Birdplay
USA, 2006, 1:38, filmmaker: Karolina Sobecka
Birdplay is a playful investigation of the potentialities in organization of forms. We experience reality from fragments of impressions, which dynamically evolve creating moods, feelings, and structures. This video is a series of impressions of the sounds and images of the city, where power lines, buildings, lights, birds, and structures come together and break apart.
Dorsal Ventral Asymmetry
USA, 2003, 2:02, filmmaker: Karolina Sobecka, music: Zbigniew Preisner
Dorsal Ventral Asymmetry is a term in biology that describes the up-down asymmetry in animal body plan. Gravity being what it is, there are lots of inevitable differences between up and down. We built a civilized world, but we keep our vulnerable bellies, unarmed with rational thought, close to the ground and nature.
A Missing A
USA, 2006, 7:12, filmmaker: Magdalena Szczepaniak
A Missing A is a sound/image construct inspired by a text by Samuel Beckett Imagination Dead Imagine and voiced by Gary Hill. The work loosely follows an umbrella, both literally and figuratively transforming the object from a prosaic entity into a metaphorical energy that takes part in the chaos and entropy of the life/death conundrum.
Sequence
SekwensPoland, 2007, 8:00, filmmaker: Robert Sowa, music: Ewa Trebacz
A man leaves his home. He cannot, however, part with the memory of a dear person he lost. He evokes images trying to reconstruct their common experiences.
Agnieszka 2039
Poland, 2007, 12:00, filmmaker: Martin Gauvreau
Joy and pain go hand in hand when an angelic being is delivered the box of eternity and subjected to the fateful decision of the gods.
Alicja Wonderland
Poland, 2008, 20:00, filmmaker: Martin Gauvreau
“So he sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed himself with Alicja, though he knew he had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality – the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds.”
Exit Author
Autor wychodziPoland, 2006, 40:06, filmmaker: Dominika Montean
“There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both.” - Harold Pinter
Three for the Taking
Trójka do wzięciaPoland, 2006, 30:00, filmmaker: Bartek Konopka
Sixteen-year-old Inga splits her time between playing soccer and spending time with her boyfriend. Her carefree life is interrupted by the news of her mother’s terminal illness. Suddenly, she is left taking care of her two siblings, and escapes from social workers.
Reflections
USA, 2007, 8:08, filmmaker: Diana Milena
This is a touching film about the struggles and sacrifices of parents and children separated by immigration. This film explores the varying viewpoints of a husband and wife who emigrated to America for their children, leaving their parents behind in Poland.
