Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors
Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors takes as
its starting point Polish cinema. Polish actors were
invited to audition in Warsaw with dialogue from
a favourite Polish film. The actors in Obcy Aktorzy
/ Foreign Actors perform a series of moments
from the films Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Man
of Iron (1981) Dekalog 4 (1988) and Sequence
of Feelings (1993). Polish actress Ewa Kasprzyk
was invited to join the cast and re-perform her dialogue
from Sequence of Feelings.
During a process of revision and rehearsals, the
words and characters from the original films became
recontextualised into a new narrative, including
actors and characters inhabiting multiple fictions
and dramatic spaces. Aesthetic, sexual, historical
and dramatic senses are manipulated to create a video
that is a dialogue between artist and actors, between
language and image, between past and present.
Produced through an Arts Council England International
Fellowship to a-i-r Artists in Residence laboratory,
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw,
Poland
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