Kontrewers
Zuza Banasińska
In a Polish folk tale, the spirit of a possessed girl has been trapped inside a stone for centuries. Now, however, it visits the director’s 102-year-old grandmother, sitting in her living room awaiting her passage to the next life. Between the two of them, trapped within their bodies, a tender dialogue unfolds about their memories, old age and death. Documentary, animated and scripted footage are woven together. Possession as a form of communication.
Zuza Banasińska
Zuza Banasińska is an artist and filmmaker from Warsaw, currently based in Amsterdam. In their essay films and installations, they use archives to examine how the reproduction of images enables the reproduction of systems, subjects and bodies. They studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam.
Films by Zuza Banasińska
Grandmamaauntsistercat 2024 | The House that shadows built 2022 | I didn’t go to Crimea and all I got was this alien message 2018
Awards for Grandmamauntsistercat
Teddy Award for best short film – Berlinale 2024
