Portugal

"Our Lodz Friends" is a documentary portrait of three women of different ages working in textile factories in Łódź. In the deafening roar of machines, performing monotonous tasks, they talk about their everyday life and dreams.

Documentary about pensioners struggling with loneliness and old age.

The story of a farmer who's also a railway worker, and his family.

A true story about the filmmaker's father, a mesmerist, exorcist, and healer who can help everyone but himself. Told from the point of view of his young son (the filmmaker as a boy), who both adores and abhors his father. Marcin Wrona uses a visually energetic collage technique to create what he calls "tragicomic kitsch," one with a fantastical sense of Monty Python about it, like a missing Terry Gilliam project.

“The film traces the feelings of an woman living in a peasant’s house in Italy. She tries to establish a rhythm through every day routines such as eating, sleeping and washing. We see one of here childhood memories-an Alsatian dog licks a girl’s heel and rests its head between her legs- and a dream, in which she is standing naked I a pit which could be a grave. In addition we see a magnified symbolic version of her surroundings, particularly of insects. Shots of windows, doors and mirrors convey a sense of menace and introspection. Thanks to measured performance by Marion van Wijk, superb lighting, black and white photography and well balanced editing. The Ants is a highly compelling and evocative film." (A.de Ronde)

"A film of 50 seconds showing a pianist playing Chopin's Valse Minute in the middle of a sports stadium." - MIFF. Screened in the 1967 New York Film Festival.

A group of mourners provide different portraits of a deceased man at a funeral.

A nightmarish vision of Lady Macbeth

Intimate story about how much we need another man. Peter and Olga meet at a time when everything seems to be over. They decide together take their last journey.

The last day in the life of an old man. Women in black pray in front of the chapel, the man comes to the house, shaves thoroughly and goes out into the field.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'.

From 'The Workshop of the Film Form'

With expressive and based on the repeatability of shots structured film dynamically visualizes personal emotions and subconscious desires of the artist. He experiences his microenvironment obsessively focusing on ordinary objects whose existence is lost in the created situation it his rationality. The fascination of things is here reduced to the level of uncontrollable physical attraction, which seems to expose the emptiness that filled tempting material goods. She puts in the spotlight but also your body. It is not only a tool of expression, the link between reality and imagination, but an entity interacting with the material reality, both purely physical - negotiating the boundaries between her and the outside world - as well as ideological. Tyszkiewicz examined here because the area of gender performativity and cultural sphere of subjects affecting the perception of female sexuality.

The film is a reflection on the cultural and psychological space attributed to women in the collective consciousness, and above all in contemporary iconosphere. The artist creates characters and situations arranged in a complex in meaning and visual variation on the theme of erotic symbols and incarnations and sexual stereotypes, revealing thus their influence on essentialist vision of women in modern life and visual culture.

No-budget homage to 80's slasher movies.

A short animation using stop-motion photography.

Ordinary life is suddenly invaded by a strange element which transforms reality.