Filmoteka Muzeum

Black takes place in absolute darkness, a radically abstract suspension of all sensual data, except for the artist's body. This blackness plays an active role — not only does it provide a background, but also marks the unfathomable, uncanny space of a dream, but also that of the unconscious; a space where body limits dissolve. Anyway, the film opens with a sequence where the artist covers subsequent parts of her body with black gloves, tights, a sweater – dissolving in that limitless blackness. Then the film introduces and develops classic surrealist motives: the passing through uncanny, narrow passages into subsequent imagined spaces, the motive of blinding (in this case by a long, snake-like rope), that of a shrinking, claustrophobic space and, finally, the close up on a wide open mouth until the scene of a mechanical ballet against the backdrop of a star-studded sky.

Description on the basis of a text by Krzysztof Pijarski.

Year: 2007
Duration: 11'39''
Language: no language
Source: HD video

© Aneta Grzeszykowska, courtesy Raster Gallery

Acquisition date: Jan 11, 2012
Acquisition: deposit
Ownership form: deposit