Director
Bakowski’s strangely personal, nostalgia-laced video combines the Polish animator’s love of everyday domestic objects and geometric aesthetics with a flickering synth score out of an eighties urban crime film.
Polish artist Wojciech Bakowski abandons his refined pencil drawings for a mixture of lo-fi video and computer animation. Images of phones, loafers, and surveillance devices hover and float, yet despite the means of circulation and communication, the artist's body remains near-immobile.
Writer
Polish artist Wojciech Bakowski abandons his refined pencil drawings for a mixture of lo-fi video and computer animation. Images of phones, loafers, and surveillance devices hover and float, yet despite the means of circulation and communication, the artist's body remains near-immobile.
Editor
Polish artist Wojciech Bakowski abandons his refined pencil drawings for a mixture of lo-fi video and computer animation. Images of phones, loafers, and surveillance devices hover and float, yet despite the means of circulation and communication, the artist's body remains near-immobile.
Cinematography
Polish artist Wojciech Bakowski abandons his refined pencil drawings for a mixture of lo-fi video and computer animation. Images of phones, loafers, and surveillance devices hover and float, yet despite the means of circulation and communication, the artist's body remains near-immobile.
Director of Photography
Polish artist Wojciech Bakowski abandons his refined pencil drawings for a mixture of lo-fi video and computer animation. Images of phones, loafers, and surveillance devices hover and float, yet despite the means of circulation and communication, the artist's body remains near-immobile.
Director
Polish artist Wojciech Bakowski abandons his refined pencil drawings for a mixture of lo-fi video and computer animation. Images of phones, loafers, and surveillance devices hover and float, yet despite the means of circulation and communication, the artist's body remains near-immobile.
Dialogue
A fictionalised portrait of Polish artists W. Bąkowski and Z. Bartoszek.
Music
A fictionalised portrait of Polish artists W. Bąkowski and Z. Bartoszek.
Director
“This movie is a representation of my spirit’s volatile state. I used animation with poetic comment to analyze my emotions and vexations. I used pencil drawings in translucent frames to show a state of lightness. On the drawings you can see the elements taken from imagination and from real external sights. I did so because our mental states are built from what we can see and what we remember or imagine in abstraction.”—Wojciech Bakowski
Director
A raw, personal, confessional narration undercuts the abstract images in Polish artist, musician and poet Wojciech Bakowski's interlaced video collage Suchy Pion. Condensing home videos into blocks of abstraction, Bakowski creates a startling account of depression, numbness and paradoxical lucidity.
Director
Animation short by Wojciech Bakowski
Director
Experimental animation short from Poland.
Director
Short Animation.
Director
At the level of text, Bąkowski's Spoken Film 5 relies on strikingly personal and direct lyricism targeted directly at the viewer. The film is a minimalist, monochrome, hand-drawn animation. Contrary to the previous Spoken Films, it does not lend itself to easy division into parts, which are all merged here by repetitive elements of image and text (such as the vertical lines in the first scene, which later start rotating like the hands of a clock, referred to in the text of the second scene, which finally unfolds into the image of a digital clock). The music for Spoken Film was written by Dawid Szczęsny, experimental musician and turntabler, who works with Bąkowski in a duo called Niwea.
