Films, discussions and a day of experimental forms at the Film Hall – let’s start the second week of the Fotofestiwal

After, among other things, thirty-three exhibitions openings throughout the city, it’s time for more festival events.

In addition to curatorial and artistic tours of many of the exhibitions, we invite you to the premiere of the film KOAN. Spaces of Imagination by Grzegorz Przyborek. We will visit the photography school in Arles and Provence, where Przyborek shaped his approach to photography, Lodz and his studio, where the covid series was created, and Bydgoszcz – at one of the artist’s largest retrospective exhibitions. After the screening – on Tuesday (20.06) at 7:30 pm – we invite you to a meeting with the film’s director Andrzej Florkowski and the protagonist of his film.

Then it’s time for the Film School. On Wednesday at 17:00 the debate Three decades of change in photography. Andrzej Rychlicki, Dominika Sadowska, Ph.D., Tomasz Ferenc, Ph.D., and Weronika Kobylinska, Ph.D., will talk about contemporary ways of presenting and transforming photography, how books function in today’s digital circulation, and how we define the framework of the photographic medium today and what artistic practices are reorienting it.

On Thursday at 3:00 pm, Expanded Photography: a day-long event dedicated to the diversity of artistic photographic forms. The Film Hall – open to all visitors on this day – will present works resulting from current creative and research explorations, works in progress: generative, audiovisual installations and those related to generative artificial intelligence. This will be followed by curatorial tours of the exhibitions in the Greenhouse Gallery and at 7pm – a concert and audiovisual performances by Alicja Godyń and Jakub Kopiczak, Filip Gabriel Pudło and the Lesmian Project (Monika Bubniak and Przemyslaw Książek).

At the weekend we return to films. On Saturday at 19:00, traditionally a review of the latest etudes by female and male students of the Film School, and we close the festival with a screening of a unique film essay on contemporary visual culture, its foundations, paradoxes, absurdities, obviousness and transformations: And the King said: what a fantastic machine, directed by Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck.

ph. HAWA, Fotofestiwal 2023