Paweł Ziemilski :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Paweł Ziemilski

About the artist

Paweł Ziemilski is a fifth year student of Directing at The National Film School in Lodz. He also has a Master's in Sociology from the University of Warsaw. He has been dividing his time between directing short films, finishing his Master's at the Lodz School, and social film projects in different marginalized milieus. This latter activity recently evolved into a fund for youth from a small village where he first started giving cinema workshops in 2009. Several of Ziemilski's documentary films deal with the places and people he has come to know through such projects.

Films

Croissant / Rogalik, 17'

With calm concentration the camera tracks through modest homes in a remote village in rural Poland. People are watching TV, listening to music, playing computer games. The inhabitants don’t seem bothered, are not addressed directly. Now and then the camera closes in on their faces. Otherwise it makes the transition to the next home through a close-up of a radio or a TV screen. Then our gaze can continue to roam. Like voyeuristic, weightless divers we comb through the moving tableau, and are permitted to look into living spaces that normally lie beyond our perceptional horizon.