Film director Agnieszka Polska

Agnieszka Polska

2021
Video Artist and photographer. Born in 1985 in Lublin, Poland, Lives and works in Kraków and Berlin. Agnieszka Polska creates video works employing mainly found material, such as archive photography and illustrations, which she subjects to subtle interventions, whether animating them or working them into the existing image. In the process, the artist changes their primary context, simultaneously creating illusions of documentation. She investigates the impact of documentation on its future reception. Her visually powerful explorations of lost times or half-forgotten figures of the Polish avant-garde, turn to how the past is fictionalised and re-worked. Her animated videos evoke a sense of melancholia, and a longing for something that perhaps never was, but which she makes real at least on film. In an interview with Art Review, Polska said that, 'Slow, unnaturally calm movements are present in most of my videos. I mainly work with animated film so a meditative, contemplative quality is present also in the process of production, which is very important for me. Each project needs a lot of time and concentration (for viewer and maker)'.
Фильмы

Hura, wciąż żyjemy!

Agnieszka Polska

Piotr Polak, Sonia Roszczuk

A group of actors centered around one charismatic director are getting ready to compete for work on a new film. They all want to get closer to him and wil do anything to make it work.

Hurrah, We Are Still Alive!

4.7 ⚠️ 2020 Hura, wciąż żyjemy!
Германия, драма

What the Sun Has Seen

Agnieszka Polska

Aaron Ronelle Harrell

Polska’s unsettling perspective on humanity takes the form of an animated child-faced sun with melancholy eyes. Digitally sourced images paint a frantic image of a crumbling world. From a distance, the sun jokes about environmental issues and comments on the tumultuous times in which the world finds itself.

What the Sun Has Seen

2017 What the Sun Has Seen
Германия, документальный

How the Work Is Done

Agnieszka Polska

In 1956 a group of students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow locked themselves inside the sculpture and ceramics workshop, transforming the venue of daily labour into a space of passive existence. In her quasi-documentary, Agnieszka Polska re-enacts the strike. Juxtaposing its inherent inaction, not far removed from an artistic performance, with animations showing the humdrum character of everyday creative work, the artist poses a question about the social effectiveness of the artists’ efforts. The film was awarded Grand Prix of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the 10th Geppert Competition (2011).

How the Work Is Done

2011 How the Work Is Done
исторический

What the Sun Has Seen

Agnieszka Polska

Agnieszka Polska’s unsettling perspective on humanity takes the form of an animated child-faced sun with melancholy eyes. Digitally sourced images paint a frantic image of a crumbling world. From a distance, the sun jokes about environmental issues and comments on the tumultuous times in which the world finds itself. —IFFR

What the Sun Has Seen

2021 What the Sun Has Seen