11.10.2021

project 1

project 2

This project is about looking for patterns in the contemporary Polish society, about recognizing the influence of hundreds of years of oppression on how this society operates now. The main focus in this project is on the period between 1945 and 1989, seeing as I have family that has lived in this period in time and I can interview them about it and discuss it with them.
I will only be interviewing the women in my family. I want to put the spotlight on them, because for years they have been living in the shadow of their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons. Constantly underestimated and talked over.
I want to do it in this medium (interview), because usually in the portrayal of this period, facts stand as the main framework of the story, and if there is some focus on emotions the protagonist is always a man. I want to look at the subjective story of an individual. The way that women in my family perceived that time in their life, how they processed it and how they look at it in retrospect, now. I find that this approach helps me understand what we think of as history, as the past. And I want to understand so I can make sense of what is happening in Poland right now. If it helps me, then maybe there are some people that will find it helpful as well. At least that’s what I’m hoping.

This project is a short film I am working on with Ari. They came up with the idea in the first place, did the research, wrote the script and I'm storyboarding and filming it.

This practice was more-than-bullshit