still from Kathleene (Joanna Raczynska)
Wednesday June 1 * 7pm * MASKS, VAX REQUIRED * TICKETS
We’re so pleased to present the films of Joanna Raczynska and post-screening discussion with the filmmaker. Microcinema series curated by Stephanie Barber.
Joanna Raczynska is a film programmer and maker based in Baltimore, MD who organizes screenings and media art presentations for the public film program at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (2009-present). She’s contributed to the staff of a variety of non-profit organizations including Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. Joanna earned her master’s degree with distinction in documentary by practice, Royal Holloway College, University of London (2001). Her short films have screened at various international sites, including Microscope Gallery and the Museum of the Moving Image, New York; the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Sheffield Doc/Fest and LUX, London, UK; as well as Hallwalls and Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY.
Kathleene
A portrait of a friend, a rebuff of heteronormative marriage, and a chance to get acquainted with the rewind crank and some mattes. (1997, 16mm to digital, silent, 4 minutes)
The Essential Chair
Exploring the platonic ideal of what it means to be “a father” through found and original footage, my relationship to my ageing dad is part memoir and part performance. (1997, 16mm to digital, 5 minutes)
Good Faith Effort
In 1989, after fifty years of occupation, Poland held its first free post-WWII elections and ushered in a democratic republic system of government. Good Faith Effort asks young Poles in the capital of Warsaw to remember that pivotal moment. (2006, miniDV, 12 minutes)
The Philosopher’s Revision
„All autobiographies are lies.“ Leszek Kolakowski (1927 – 2009), Polish philosopher and author, taught at All Souls College, Oxford University, where this short biography was recorded. (2001, miniDV, 10 minutes)
Nonfunctional Seasonal Confessional
Recorded while in residence at the Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY where several analog processing tools combine for a short satire of the confessional video mode.
(2003, analog video to miniDV, 3 minutes)