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Extended Reality 2023

The Contrast or Illusion

Mariusz Borzyszkowski
Surrounded by giant statues, we become an object of appraisal: A field of tension between arbitrariness and control, power and impotence, diversity and uniformity opens.
2023
Filmstill The Contrast or Illusion
Filmstill The Contrast or Illusion

The Contrast or Illusion

The Contrast or Illusion
Mariusz Borzyszkowski
Extended Reality 2023
XR
Poland
2023
6 minutes
without dialogue
We are exposed to evaluations every day. The norm by which they are made is usually out of our hands. This VR experience creates a field of tension between arbitrariness and control, power and impotence, diversity and uniformity. A circle of 16 real objects marks the entrance to a virtual process of evaluation in which 16 giant grey statues examine us.
Lars Rummel

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Producer
Mariusz Borzyszkowski
VR Developer
Mariusz Borzyszkowski
Artistic Design
Mariusz Borzyszkowski
3D Artist
Mariusz Borzyszkowski
Coding
Mariusz Borzyszkowski
Sound Design
Marcin Zieliński
Key Collaborator
Janina Rudnicka
Director
Mariusz Borzyszkowski
Retrospective 2023

The Orange Alternative

Mirosław Dembiński
Can a dwarf be dangerous? When martial law is imposed, a protest movement forms in Poland that undermines the order of the regime with subversive artistic interventions.
Filmstill The Orange Alternative
Filmstill The Orange Alternative

The Orange Alternative

Pomarańczowa Alternatywa
Mirosław Dembiński
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
Poland
1988
24 minutes
Polish
Subtitles: 
English
“No freedom without dwarves!” What form of oppositional logic can take hold when nothing is logical anymore? “The Orange Alternative” has answers. When living conditions in communism reach the threshold of the surreal, the protest movement that sprang from student circles decides to subvert the order of the regime by Dadaist artistic interventions.
Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Mirosław Dembiński
Cinematographer
Maciej Odoliński
Editor
Bogusława Furga
Producer
The Polish National Film School in Łódź
Sound
Urszula Zaręba, Jan Silczak
Score
Piotr Wilczyński