"The forest is never empty, and if it seems empty to you, you have only yourself to blame."
Mikhail Prishvin, naturalist writer.
A 14 minute meditative ambient film. A personal work focused on a local forest — its shapes, rhythms, patterns, and textures, among other things. My main point of reference is the minimalist filmmaking of James Benning.
Promo videos done for Poznań's ROZBRAT community and Booki Booking concert agency. This is an ongoing project, so more videos like these are in the works.
KNIFE IN THE WATER:
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY
An old video essay employing a basic Zizekian reading of the film. It needs some corrections, additions and restructuring, but it's worth sharing nonetheless. Made under the mentorship of dr. Miklos Kiss.
PS: All of the film's English subtitles in this video, including the recited poem, are my own new translations. The existing English subtitles — yes, even the authorized ones included on the Criterion release — fail to capture a lot of the subtleties of the original script and even omit a couple of key lines in the movie.
THE CINEMATIC LEGACY OF F.W. MURNAU
Video essay, 10 min. A video essay about Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's development of the unchained camera technique and its subsequent impact on film as a medium. Made under the mentorship of prof. Julian Hanich.
A glitchy promotional teaser video for a music event in Groningen (NL). The video was made collaboratively with @hypnagogia.tv. The script is a mash-up of a number of avant-garde manifestos, compiled by other organizers.
Additionally, I was tasked with creating the visual identity of the event, including the logo, posters, flyers, social media graphics and so on. Read more about how I designed to logo in the graphics section.
A short retrofuturistic mood piece created with heavily distorted footage from various films.
THE GLOWING SCREEN
A short practice animation from many years ago.