Symphony of the Ursus Factory | 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF WAJDA SCHOOL

© Symfonia Fabryki Ursus, Symphony of the Ursus Factory, reż. Jaśmina Wójcik
Date
Hour
Place
04/08
12:30
THE LUBELSKIE CINEMA


Symfonia Fabryki Ursus
reż|dir Jaśmina Wójcik | PL | 2018 | 71 min
prod|pro Wojciech Marczewski, Karolina Mróz scen|wr Jaśmina Wójcik, Igor Stokfiszewski zdj|ph Kacper Czubak muz|mus Dominik Strycharski mon|ed Aleksandra Gowin dys|dis Szkoła Wajdy

DESCRIPTION

Jaśmina Wójcik draws on documentary film and enriches it with elements of video art, choreography and participatory art. She invites the former employees of one of Europe’s largest tractor plants into the empty, dilapidated halls. In addition to its cinematic or artistic value, the document has a special social value – it gives back a sense of community and meaning to human biographies. The film is reminiscent of the factory not so much of an industrial space as of a human, social space – an attempt to activate the dormant potential in the heroes, who long for the past.


AWARDS
2020 Eagles – nomination to Eagle for Best Documentary
2019 Toronto Hot Docs – Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary

DIRECTOR
— JAŚMINA WÓJCIK (1983), Polish visual artist, author of video works, drawings, projects in urban space, interactive installations, animator of social actions. She is a graduate of the Warsaw ASP and lives and works in Warsaw. Winner of numerous prizes and awards for her artistic activity. Jasmina Wójcik creates committed, critical and important social issues. The "Symphony of the Ursus Factory" (2018) is about a multi-year art and research project whose protagonists are the factory premises and former employees of the tractor manufacturers.

FILMOGRAPHY
— JAŚMINA WÓJCIK
2018 Symfonia Fabryki Ursus|Symphony of the Ursus Factory

© Festiwal Filmu i Sztuki Dwa Brzegi Kazimierz Dolny Janowiec nad Wisłą
REDAKCJA I PROJEKT: ALICJA SAWICKA | REALIZACJA: TOMASZ ŻEWŁAKOW