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Friday, December 12, 2014 - 20:30
Written by:
Wojciech Bakowski
Editing:
Wojciech Bakowski
Sound:
Wojciech Bakowski
Romanian premiere
Screened at Toronto and Oberhausen, DRY STANDPIPE is a unique object d’art. Working from his private collection of Hi8 videos, the visual artist Bakowski literally wraps selected film sequences around CGI sculptures and presents them in their formal minimalism against a black background. Counteracting these conceptual abstractions with his deadpan description of their personal meaning, each sculpture’s signifiers are deconstructed with candidness and unsophistication. The result is a poetic piece of art, unconventional in style and materials - an arte povera for the digital age, where artist and audience are on equal, analytical footing. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF)
Director:
WOJCIECH BAKOWSKI is a multidisciplinary artist: creator of animated films, sound installations, drawings and performances, and leader of the bands KOT, Czikita and Niwea. Apart from this, he also writes poetry, for which he is often compared to Miron Białoszewski. In 2007, he co-founded the Poznań art group Penerstwo. His work focuses on the apotheosis of experiencing banal reality, with a brutalist, lyrical fascination for “mundane, basic facts and objects”, as he himself states.
Contact:
bakowski6[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Best experimental film, European short film competition - New Horizons Wrocław 2013
- Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2013
- Toronto International Film Festival 2013
- Ann Arbor Film Festival 2014
Curator's comment:
A raw, personal, confessional narration undercuts the abstract images in Polish artist, musician and poet Wojciech Bakowski's interlaced video collage DRY STANDPIPE. Condensing home videos into blocks of abstraction, Bakowski creates a startling account of depression, numbness and paradoxical lucidity. (Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival 2013)
In his curious digital work, Dry Standpipe, Wojciech Bąkowski crafts what he calls a video of videos: interlaced videos composited and contorted into strange, CGI sculptures - tunnels, pipes, strings, and blocks. But against Pixar’s prevailing model, these absurdist architectures serve not as vehicles for fantasy but as monuments to the filmmaker's / narrator’s own bathos and inertia, delivered in monotone musings that hint back to the banalities of the experimental animator’s everyday life. (Leo Goldsmith & Rachael Rakes, The Brooklyn Rail)
A raw, personal, confessional narration undercuts the abstract images in Polish artist, musician and poet Wojciech Bakowski's interlaced video collage DRY STANDPIPE. Condensing home videos into blocks of abstraction, Bakowski creates a startling account of depression, numbness and paradoxical lucidity. (Andréa Picard, Toronto International Film Festival 2013)
In his curious digital work, Dry Standpipe, Wojciech Bąkowski crafts what he calls a video of videos: interlaced videos composited and contorted into strange, CGI sculptures - tunnels, pipes, strings, and blocks. But against Pixar’s prevailing model, these absurdist architectures serve not as vehicles for fantasy but as monuments to the filmmaker's / narrator’s own bathos and inertia, delivered in monotone musings that hint back to the banalities of the experimental animator’s everyday life. (Leo Goldsmith & Rachael Rakes, The Brooklyn Rail)