Wojciech Bąkowski
Spoken Movie 2
Spoken Movie 2 is one of the six Spoken Movies that Bąkowski created between 2006 and 2011. The entire series displays a combination of animated film with verbal narration. The artist alludes to the tradition of Polish animated-film, but at the same time clearly distances himself from it. Spoken Movie 2 was made out of a fascination with “human talk.” The lyrical subject and observer – a disabled person riding public transport – conducts an incessant monologue consisting of a series of loose associations, repeated phrases and peculiar vocalizations. When recording the soundtrack for this film, the artist stood on his head to obtain the appropriate sound of the voice.
Wojciech Bąkowski
(b. 1979) an author of animated films, a graphic artist, poet and creator of audio performances and alternative music. He studied at the Audiosphere Studio and the Animation Studio of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. A co-founder of the artistic collective Penerstwo and leader of the music bands KOT, Niwea, Czykita and Gerda (together with Jan Piasecki); a member of the PINKPUNK association. In 2009, Bąkowski won the Views Deutsche Bank Foundation Award, and in 2010 he was awarded the Polityka Passport.