Wojciech Bąkowski
Making New Worlds Instead of Forgetting About It
In Making New Worlds Instead of Forgetting About It, Bąkowski combined digital images with animated photographs and a disturbing soundtrack. The actual visual material is relatively humble, limited to subtle, computer-generated textures and images familiar from the immediate surroundings: a view from a window, a flying bird and a bathroom door. The film’s atmosphere may suggest that inner experiences have been translated here into visual, aural and digital compositions. The world presented is incoherent, dominated by a sense of isolation that arouses a desire to escape. However, the lyrical subject decides to continue creating new worlds, opposing the mood of resignation. Bąkowski draws here on the aesthetics of early analogue video.
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.