Museum open at 12:00pm
Cinema is closed now
Museum open at 12:00pm
Cinema is closed now
Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991 and „Janine”
23rd Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival. Film and discussion
Following the screening, guest speakers Dr. Jędrzej Burszta and Dr. Krystyna Mazur will discuss the work of David Wojnarowicz and Cheryl Dunye, as well as the history of queer activism in the United States. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Gabriela Sitek
Self-Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz’s Life, 1989–1991
Political artist, painter, writer, performer and photographer David Wojnarowicz was one of the leading personalities of the 1980s New York art scene. In an interview conducted in 1989 by cultural theorist Sylvère Lotringer, Wojnarowicz speaks candidly about intimate moments in his life, the creative process, sexuality, AIDS, and coming to terms with one’s own death - at a time when society categorically refused to face up to the AIDS epidemic. Marion Scemama, who was a close friend of Wojnarowicz and who filmed the interview, has created an incomparable essay out of it and previously unseen work drawn from the artist’s and her own private archives. Interweaving Wojnarowicz’s charismatic observations with excerpts from his work, she has succeeded in creating a deeply moving film that looks into the soul of a man who exposed his vulnerability in a variety of aesthetic forms.
„Janine”
In “Janine”, Dunye candidly tells the story of her high-school friendship with a white upper-middle class girl named Janine. Dunye discusses her struggle for acceptance in Janine's world, despite their racial and sexual-identity differences. Through direct address and visual metaphor, Dunye imparts the painful process of searching for — and ultimately affirming – identity.