Ashes By Name Is Man
dir. Ewelina Rosińska / 2023, Germany / Poland, 20' / Warsaw premiere
8.09.24
18:00
Kinoteka, plac Defilad, Warszawa, Polska
Director: Ewelina Rosińska
Screenplay: Ewelina Rosińska
Cinematography: Ewelina Rosińska
Editing: Ewelina Rosińska
Sound: Ewelina Rosińska, Jan Pasemann
Producer(s): Ewelina Rosinska, Roxana Richters
Production: Ewelina Rosińska, Roxana Richters
World sales: Ewelina Rosińska
Language: no dialogue
Website: https://ewelinarosinska.com/
SYNOPIS
Partners:
I read in the writings of one painter that, for him, the Polish landscape seems to constantly draw our gaze to the ground, making us look not over the horizon but under our feet, at the bones buried beneath each step. The film shifts between a portrait of my eighty year old grandparents and my view on the elements and imagery of the national-Catholic narrative in the Polish landscape.The title “Ashes By Name Is Man” is borrowed from a church notice board in Nowa Grobla, in Roztocze. At the centre of my explorations is the range of hills Roztocze, while Krakow and Lviv form the boundaries of the area in which I was shooting.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Rotterdam International Film Festival, mBank New Horizons International Film Festival, Experimental Film and Video Festival EXiS (Best EXiS Award), German Short Film Award (Nomination), First Look 2023 - Museum of the Moving Image in New York, Istanbul Film Festival, FICUNAM International Cinema Festival, Marienbad Film Festival
EWELINA ROSIŃSKA
Experimental filmmaker. Born in Lubaczow in Poland, she is based in Germany and Portugal. She holds an MA in Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Film Directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB), where she was a member of Ute Aurand's Bolex Workshop and collaborated on various film projects with her fellow students. Her films were screened at i.a.: International Film Festival in Rotterdam IFFR, Punto de Vista Film Festival in Pamplona, Courtisane Festival in Gent, Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, First Look at Museum of Moving Image in New York and HER Docs Film Festival in Warsaw. Her recent work "Ashes by Name is Man" won the BEST EXiS AWARD at the EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul and was nominated for the GERMAN SHORT FILM AWARD 2023. She is currently holding a Berlin Senate grant for Berlin-based moving image artists and works on her upcoming films. Since 2024, she has been a member of the Women Filmmakers Association Wschodnia.
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