Karolina

The film is about Karolina, an 18-year old girl with advanced osteoporosis. She had responded to an appeal by the artist for someone willing to share her pain. Her devastated skeletal system means that each movement causes unbearable pain as flesh presses on and rubs against fragments of bone. Karolina decided to go on morphine, taking ever larger doses...

Halina

Halina Koziol works in a laundry house. She is responsible for ironing clothes. She likes ironing; she does a lot of it at home too. She has a daughter and a son. They both live with her in Falenica. Falenica is a far, southern outskirt of Warsaw...

Peyotl

The film Peyotl, along with the Magic Mushrooms, LSD, and Hypnosis, were made for the exhibition Waves and Other Mental Phenomena in 2003. They are a series of interviews that Artur Żmijewski conducted with his friend Pawel Althamer. Peyote was filmed in the desert, and is the most muted images of the series.

Rendez-vous

The film features actor Wojciech Krolikiewicz, who suffers from Huntington’s chorea. As brain cells die, patients lose control over their movements and emotions, their memory begins to suffer, and they have difficulty making decisions. Rendez-vous is the record of a patient’s daily struggles, where even the most trivial activities become a huge challenge.

An Eye for an Eye

The film and photographs bearing the joint title Eye for an Eye feature amputees in the company of the healthy. The completely able-bodied enter into an intimate, troubling situation with the handicapped somehow ‘lending’ them their missing limbs.

80064

Żmijewski decided to persuade a former World War II concentration camp prisoner, a 92-year-old Jozef Tarnawa, to ‘renew’ his prisoner number, tattooed on the man’s forearm. In the memory of Tarnawa, the condition for survival necessitated by the extremely oppressive and restrictive environment was extreme conformity. And in the film such an act of conformism consent and subordination is repeated.

Repetition

Repetition is a documentary recording of the re-enactment of the Stanford Prison Experiment a famous 1971 psychological experiment studying human behavior in prison conditions. In early 2005, the reconstruction of the experiment was done in Warsaw and Żmijewski tried to precisely recreate the architecture of the simulated prison and its rules....

KR WP

The film features soldiers from the Polish Army’s Honour Guard unit, whom Żmijewski had persuaded to recreate the ceremonial drill ritual in front of the camera. Żmijewski said of this project, ‘It’s a musical and a masquerade, but also a serious story about the defenseless body hidden under the uniform. A tender film about men.

Singing Lesson 2

Żmijewski returned to the idea of the ‘deaf choir.’ In an unprecedented way, the two versions of ‘Singing Lesson’ address conventional views of the limitations of speech and musicality. The children use sign language during rehearsals and the performance. They pore over the score, which is a complete puzzle for them, but can neither hear their voices nor control them.

Lisa

Lisa, a German girl that Żmijewski met in Tel Aviv, felt that in a former life she was a Jewish boy, murdered at the age of 12 shot through the head by Nazis. To this day she feels a pain in the place where the bullet entered. Jerusalem gives her strength and happiness; but she also feels lonely there...

Director in Focus- Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

Films

80064

80064

2004
Poland
11min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye

1998
Poland
10min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

Halina

Halina

2006
Poland
16min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

Karolina

Karolina

2002
Poland
11min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

KR WP

KR WP

2000
Poland
8min
亞特.祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

Lisa

Lisa

2003
Poland
11min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

Out for a Walk

Out for a Walk

2001
Poland
9min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

Peyotl

Peyotl

2003
Poland
15min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基,帕維‧歐塔瑪
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI, Pawel ALTHAMER

Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

2003
Israel, Poland
30min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基,帕維‧歐塔瑪
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI, Pawel ALTHAMER

Rendez-vous

Rendez-vous

1996
Poland
11min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

Repetition

Repetition

2005
Germany, Poland
39min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI

Singing Lesson 2

Singing Lesson 2

2000
Poland
8min
亞特‧祖米弗斯基
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI
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