Siksa

Alex — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 18:30:17 +0000

Siksa

Alex Sat, 01/16/2021 - 19:30

Director

Piotr Macha

Musical based on SIKSA's "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" is a performative dream of making a movie come true, where both the dream and the movie are like chewing gum that has been tasteless for too long. A nostalgic invitation to a dancing story about a girl returning to her childhood, when she dressed up as different women using her mother's wardrobe, and all the roles she played were to please herself. This film is a tool for reconstructing the scenes from the youth, as well as a baroque farewell to all the glitter and unicorns. Stabat Mater Dolorosa is like a bayonet slashing through modern times. She gives us micro-performances with all her body, and at her own risk. SIKSA's music is the scenario rejected, grinded, spat out, negated and intensified by the characters. Piotr Macha's camera is one of the murder weapons that SIKSA would like to use to fuck up the modern reality. It's a language of art that SIKSA has been using almost unnoticed since 2014. A gun, a girl and death – those are the times we live in.

Film duration

61minutes

Language spoken

Polish

Production country

Poland

Siksa

Film screening

Saturday 3 sept

17:30 - 18:30

Nieuwe Veste Theaterzaal 1

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Production year

2021

Festival Year

2022

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On the Silver Globe

Alex — Sun, 19 May 2019 06:39:36 +0000

On the Silver Globe

Alex Sun, 05/19/2019 - 08:39

Director

Andrej Zulawski

A one-of-a-kind science fiction crypto-classic film by the recently deceased Polish director Zulawski (POSSESSION).
Dating from 1988 it was made behind the iron curtain and suffered heavily from censorship, destroying the fantastic props. What is left is a final edit that is somehow inconclusive, but only adds to the fascination and mystique of this lost gem.
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilisation. They do not realise that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They eventually die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. Some time later, a space bureaucrat, running from a broken heart, arrives and finds the coloniser's descendants enslaved by bird-monsters called Cherns. Society is divided into numerous classes, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of a messiah.

Film duration

166minutes

Language spoken

polish

Language subtitles

english

Production country

Poland