The Stain.
Premiere of Jacek Malinowski's film (with English subtitles)
Zachęta / cinema room (entrance from Burschego street)
free entry
The Stain, dir. Jacek Malinowski, 2016, 34 min
actors: Sean Palmer, Killian Palmer, Martina Rampulla, Blanka Wysocka, Jakub Kamieński
The new film by Jacek Malinowski is a short-story style film, which consists of three episodes linked together by a disaster motif. The author has treated both the theme of the film, as well as its form in a non-linear way, where the narrative is fragmented thus experimenting with the basic structure of film making. Protagonists of each part of the film confront the upcoming disaster or its vision in a different manner. Individual episodes are tied together by actors, common scenery and repetitive dialogue. The Stain refers to the War of the Worlds by Orson Welles - a famous radio broadcast from 1938, which in a realistic manner depicted a Martian invasion on Earth thus causing a severe panic in the state of New Jersey and becoming the first documented mockumentary. Malinowski approaches disaster movies with a healthy distance, taking into quotation marks both the convention of the genre, as well as mockumentary style films.
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03.09 – 16.10.2016Jacek MalinowskiBi-polarThe exhibition Bi-polar is the first such extensive presentation of the work of Jacek Malinowski in Zachęta. It presents a selection of the filmography of an artist who from 2000 has been realizing films in the style of fake documentaries. Over the course of over a decade Malinowski has developed his own, characteristic pseudo-documentary style that is an important element in his artistic “signature”.
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