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 A mixed program of animation and video collage includes recent segments from Bąkowski’s Spoken Movies series, “featuring his explorations of liaisons between animation and the spoken word as well as experiments with combining the two. In each of the films, the artist shifts [focus] to different elements, uses different formal solutions, and puts language to the test by exploring the boundaries of communicativeness” – Filmoteka Narodowa. Also included are Dry Standpipe, Worsening of Eyesight, and Exercises for True Friends, among other works.
Total running time approximately 75 minutes.
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Saturday, April 4, 2:30 p.m.
National Gallery of Art, West Building Lecture Hall
6th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C.
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 Warsaw-based poet, visual, and sound artist Wojciech Bąkowski (b. 1979, Poznań, Poland) creates visceral animations that hover between abstract and deeply subjective realms. Using a dark, raw sensibility to investigate a post-analog world, Bąkowski’s low-monotone and deceptively simple videos harness banal, everyday moments along with glimmers of the otherworldly. Bąkowski received the Deutsche Bank Foundation’s 2009 Views Award, as well as honors from the National Festival of Auteur Animation in Krakow and the Łódź Film Festival, among other distinctions. A solo exhibition of his work was recently on view at Audio Visual Arts in New York and a retrospective of his animations was presented at the fifty-third Ann Arbor Film Festival.
National Gallery of Art Film Programs is an ongoing program of classic cinema, documentary, avant-garde, and area premieres occurs each weekend. Programs are free of charge, but seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis. Films are screened in original formats. Doors open approximately 30 minutes before each show.
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