Agnieszka Polska
Directing
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)'.
Known for
Behind the camera10
- 2024The Book of Flowers Director
- 2021The Longing Gaze Director
- 2020Hurrah, We Are Still Alive! Director, Screenplay
- 2017What the Sun Has Seen Director, Writer, Editor
- 2017The New Sun Director
- 2016My Little Planet Director
- 2014I Am the Mouth II Director
- 2011How the Work Is Done Director
- TBAThe happiest thought Director
- TBAAsk The Siren