1. Monika Czyżyk, its me the first one, 2014, Finland, 00:03:40
It’s me the first one is a video documentation of an old Polish man showing and commenting on a set of slides. You never see the person who is talking, just the wall and interior of the room, and the projected images. This silent meditation on bygone times and memories fading together with the depicted people has a melancholy hold on the spectator.
Monika Czyżyk (born in 1989 in Poland) is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker living and working in Helsinki, Finland. She obtained her Master’s Degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Bachelor’s Degree from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (Time and Space Arts). She is currently working on her MFA at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (Time and Space Arts).
Since 2012, Monika has been involved in performance works. In 2012, she did stage designs for her collaboration with dance choreographer Riina Koivisto for the dance performances Passage and Global Water Dance in Paris. In 2013, Monika worked as an assistant for performance artist Paula Rayan in her pavilion during Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany. More recently, she was working on the Seven Deadly Sins opera, produced by the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, which premiered at Jatkasaari Bunkeri in September 2013.
In 2014 her short film It’s me the first one was selected in Eurovideo-Videographies festival and was shown in Liége, Donostia – San Sebastián, Sarajevo, Mons, Skopje and Kaliningrad. It was nominated for Off Camera Festival in Łódź and Mountain Festival in Krakow. It also received a second prize in the Przedwiośnie competition organized by the BWA Gallery in Kielce. Czyżyk’s graduation film Patrzatka was screened during the presentation of her MFA thesis in the Agrafka cinema.
2. Toni Bestard, Foley artist, 2013, Spain, 00:18:00
3. Minna Kallinen, Every time again, 2015, Finland 00:05:45
4. Aleksander Krzystyniak, Game of life, 2015, Poland 00:14:33