Stopover
Przystanek- POLAND / 2023 / Polish / Color / 21 min
Director, Script, Photography: Mariusz Biernacki
Photography: Jan Cisiecki, Hanna Tarasiewicz
Editing: Jakub Rados
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
A “soup kitchen bus” operates day and night in Łódź, serving warm meals. Those working aboard are themselves homeless, living in a nearby shelter. Though the film may resemble a scripted drama, its ending is brutally real— unmistakably documentary in nature.
Such a Beautiful Town
Takie piękne miasto- POLAND / 2019 / No dialogue / Color / 8 min
Director, Script, Animation: Marta Koch
Editing: Marta Koch, Sabina Filipowicz
Sound: Marta Koch, Teoniki Rożynek
Music: Teoniki Rożynek
Production: The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz
A woman wakes to find her boyfriend—who had been sleeping beside her—now outside on the street, kissing someone else. Enraged, she runs out of the room, only to discover no one there. Rendered entirely from her subjective gaze, the animation reveals a grotesque and provocative vision of the city, distorted through her disturbed psyche.
As Day Goes By
- NEPAL / 2024 / No dialogue / Color / 14 min
Director, Photography, Editing: Ngima Gelu Sherpa
Production Company: Ama Dablam Pictures
The camera simply follows two women cutting grass in a pasture—and that’s all. Yet what startles is how the question, “What is the everyday in documentary?” emerges, not through montage or contrivance, but through the filmmaker’s guiding vision behind the camera.
The Demands of Ordinary Devotion
- ITALY, BELGIUM / 2021 / No dialogue / Color / 12 min (Original: 16mm)
Director, Photography, Editing: Eva Giolo
Sound Design: Simonluca Laitempergher
Colorist: Lennert de Taeye
Production Company: elephy
What is the moving image? Guided by the words of Laozi, this film explores cinema as an art form rooted in time. It weaves together metaphors essential to the human experience— such as “cycle,” “chain,” and “matter”—linked like a string of prayer beads.