Simple Gestures: Janusz Bałdyga

DIRECTOR: Paweł Sosnowski

VENUE: Kino Kilta, Nunnakatu 4

DATE & TIME: Film screening on Fri 5.9. 16–18. 

DURATION: The screening lasts 2 hours. The same screening also features Spectacle: A Portrait of Stuart Sherman. Advance registration required. Registration for the screening opens in August.

LANGUAGE: English

The film is a portrait of Janusz Bałdyga (71), one of the most recognizable Polish performers. The artist uses the simplest means of expression, performs such simple gestures that each of us makes every day: takes steps, claps, lifts a heavy object, rolls up a string. We do the same, usually mechanically not attaching attention to the gesture. The performer acts in a thoughtful, careful, intentional way. The film consists of a dozen or so short chapters that are self-reflection on elementary problems of art, which we find unexpectedly close to everyday life.

Composed of short scenes, the work explores the boundary between art and everyday life through a dialogue of light irony and serious reflection. Bałdyga is at the same time the author and the recipient, a viewer, just like each of us. He gently and convincingly introduces us to the world of art and concludes that an artist is, above all, a human being, and only a human being is able to make art.