SOUL CAGE
10′, 2022
Soul Cage is a non-verbal documentary, which explores the process of creation. The specially composed music builds the dramaturgy of the film on equal rights with the image.
This “cinematographic sonata” explores the boundaries of documentary and operates with details, shadows and mystery. The film gets inside the art process of Johanna Forsberg, who lives in the north of Sweden. From the raw metal mesh, cold and resistant, through the fragile moment of creation, to the darkness of the workshop – where everything is possible, and the creations have their own life and souls.
Aujourd’hui Ca Va
5′, 2020
There is life, there is solitude, there is sea and love. Laurence lives near the sea and comes to watch the waves, sometimes she goes back to her past, sometimes to her dreams where she can meet people who had already left. But what Laurence knows for certain is that the most important day of the life is today. After being retired, she has found a perfect remedy to rest in today – she became an actress.
A CUP OF TEA
11′, 2017
New car, fur coat, reach husband. The life is boring, but comfortable. Rosemary is wandering around the shops as usual. But the shop she got into today feels strange.
She looks at porcelain woman faces and somehow sees herself. Motionless, they stare after her.
The shop owner appears from the darkness and leads her to a small room, where he shows her something special. He declares it is a magical statue which makes all wishes come true. Rosemary is eager to hear the price and buy it. But the price is extraordinary, even for her – she has to make a good deed. She leaves the shop puzzled. In a short time, she has an opportunity to make a good deed. But how far is she ready to go in the revision of her values?
S-MALL PORTRAITS
26′, 2017
The micro-world of a shopping mall is the central point of today’s Poles: we go there for shopping but we also carry our load of love, hope, sadness, loneliness… S-Mall Portraits is a series of intertwining stories: a young inept romeo chasing girls, a courting couple taking photos in a photo booth, homeless people trying to warm themselves while reading some books in the bookshop, a security guard telling his colleague how difficult it is to settle down. We can follow all these stories from the live mannequin’s perspective of a shop whindow. In the evening, the customers leave but the mall’s “mechanism” demands maintenance. Another day passes.
Directed by Svitlana Topor, Weronika Bilska, Agata Byrska, Marcin Filipowicz, Brygida Frosztęga-Kmiecik, Anna Grzelewska, Aneta Kopacz, Marcin Kossowski, Vahram Mkhitaryan, Mateusz Mularski, Paweł Popko, Paweł Suskiewicz, Michał Szcześniak, Wiktoria Szymańska.
TO FLY?
8′, 2008
A short documentary about an Ukrainian artist Igor Zemlyanski who saves the birds and dreams about wings.
International premiere: Maremetraggio Film Festival (Italy)