The Academy of Art @ SeFF

Szczecin Film Festival 2022: 22.10.2022, Saturday, 13:00
Kino Zamek, Korsarzy 34 (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: The Boundaries of Cinema

The first public higher artistic education institution in Poland teaching in the fields of both visual arts and music. The Academy of Art in Szczecin is a young and modern school. Its biggest assets are the staff and technical equipment. The lecturers are active artists and theoreticians who win prizes, play concerts and exhibit their works all around the world. They are also representatives of the creative industry. The Academy's students can use studios with state-of-the-art equipment, labs, ateliers and lecture rooms. The Academy of Art is also a dynamic institution of culture. Every year, it organises a couple hundred cultural events, such as exhibitions, festivals and concerts.

Films

  • Dzielenie się2022 | 13' | POL

    A clash of three generations, Polish culture and Christmas with the moment of coming out of a homosexual granddaughter/daughter/sister. A film made with a VHS camera, set in a traditional Polish house where an old lady (88) lives with her adult children: Danuta (55) and Jerzy (61). The insularity of the inhabitants of the post-communist block clashes with the New Wave artist and filmmaker. A document about ignorance and fear of what is new is packed in the quintessence of simple words, patterns and stereotypes.



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  • Mapa ciała2021 | 35' | POL

    A group of five pupils of J. Korczak Youth Reformatory in Szczecin captures their life with amateur cameras. The result of three weeks film workshops is a portray of teenage dreams and goofing around interleaved with harsh reality of institution.



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  • Na co mam stać pod rynną2022 | 14' | POL

    The film shows the school from the perspective of a young teacher in her first year of work. Being full of enthusiasm, the author gives the floor to the students. Together, they create and try to rearrange the school space into a space that eludes the usual structures and rigid categories of implementing the “core curriculum”. The image is accompanied by a story, an intimate record of the experiences of young women.



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  • Rozmowy o śmierci2022 | 4' | POL

    The author closes the formalities related to the death of his father. It records conversations with bots on telephone helplines. He is forced to share his private mourning and the first conversations about the loss of a loved one with the mechanical voice of computer assistants.



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  • Strych | Attic2022 | 6' | POL

    Animation combines charcoal drawing with VR techniques. It is a conglomerate of badly formed, lying, childhood memories that have not been released so far. They circle around the attic, trying to somehow clarify, specify and understand what happened.



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Associated artists

  • Józef Jakacki

    Józef Jakacki was born in 1998, he is a student of the Academy of Art in Szczecin in the field of Film. His work is based on formal film experiments that explore narrative possibilities. He mainly uses the medium of film and camera performance. Usually he focuses on the clichés that surround us and gives them new value.

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  • Krystyna Dobrzańska

    Krystyna Dobrzańska, born1996. Filmmaker, visual artist, production manager. A graduate of the Art Academy in Szczecin at the Experimental Film specialisation and the Film and Television Production at Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. Currently a student of the master's degree at Social Arts at the Institute of Polish Culture, Warsaw University. Her documentary „All about going abroad” took part in competitions at Młodzi i Film Festival in Koszalin and Short Waves Festival in Poznań. Winner of the Młode Wilki competition with the participatory documentary film "Body Map" and the competition for the best media art diplomas organised by the WRO Art Center and the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. The film also won a special award in the competition for the best diplomas organised by the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk.

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  • Krystyna Julia Brodowska

    Krystyna Julia Brodowska is a creator of video and photography works and co-organizer of social campaigns. She is a graduate of Photography and Film student at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. Co-organizer of charity events such as “Present yourself locally”, a fair for Rożawa in Szczecin. A scholarship holder of the Polish Film Institute. A teacher of photography in a technical school.

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  • Natalia Sara Skorupa

    Natalia Sara Skorupa was born on January 18, 1999 in Szczecin. A sociologist by profession. Curator, activist, pro LGBTQ+ activist, film student at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. A passionate poet and a black metal singer in foreign projects. Due to the socio-psychological connections, most of the works are presented as documents or performative actions. Films of the nature of camera performances have been appreciated not only in Poland, but also at festivals in Great Britain, Macedonia and Mexico.

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  • Zuzanna Fluder

    Zuzanna Fluder was born in November 2000. He comes from a small town near Szczecin. One of her first interests was music. She graduated from the 1st degree music school in the instrumental faculty, and currently continues her education outside the school. With time, she began to be interested in drawing, then animation and film, especially editing. Currently, she is a second-year student of film at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.

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