Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

Mój dom

My House without me

Magdalena Szymków
Poland, 2012, 28 Min

Two women, one house. Parallel destinies of a Pole and a German whose intimate accounts of war and forced resettlement are skilfully interwoven with projections of archive material and landscape footage.

Wajda Studio

The Polish woman was deported to Siberia by the Soviet authorities in 1939 before taking up residence in the so-called “Regained Territories”’ of Poland, from which the German had only recently been expelled in the aftermath of the Second World War. Her intimate accounts of war and forced resettlement take us to Poland, Siberia and Germany and read like a game of deception that encompasses peace, loss, hunger and death. Whilst the viewer conjures up mental images thereof, the camera details the daily lives of these now elderly women. The narrative is free flowing, like the changing fronts of the war and the destinies of the film's protagonists. Partly a traditional narrative made up of fragmentary memories on the loss of childhood and homeland, the occasional cutaways to archive and landscape footage projected onto bare walls generate an abstract, daydream-like viewing experience. JG

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour & s/w / b/w
Drehbuch
Magdalena Szymków
Kamera
Paweł Chorzępa, Kurt Moser
Ton
Tomasz Wieczorek
Schnitt
Stefan Paruch
Musik
Tomasz Wieczorek
Produzent
Adam Ślesicki
Produktion
Wajda Studio
Co-Produktion
Pomerania Film, Vezfilm
Kontakt
Wajda Studio
Agnieszka Rostropowicz-Rutkowska
Ul. Chełmska 21
00-724 Warsaw
Poland
arostropowicz@wajdastudio.pl
www.wajdastudio.pl
Magdalena Szymków

Magdalena Szymków - born in Poland. She studied journalism at Warsaw University, law in Szczecin and furthermore holds a degree in filmmaking from the Wajda Film School, Warsaw. She has worked for domestic and international publications and broadcasters. She also co-founded the film production company Vezfilm.

Movies
KOLAUDACJA (2014, short, doc)