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Agata Groszek does social and critical art, documentary films, video, pastiche films, photographies and installations. Every time She use the medium that best suits to a particular subject.
At the Upgrade! Meeting at Dziekanka Agata Groszek presents The Family Films.
Family Films – a kind of family chronicles. Conversations with aged family members about relationships, past and controversial subjects – an attempt to catch irreversibly passing time and to gain a deeper insight in myself by learning about not much known close people.
All talks concern the relationship.
Family Films: Raspberries, 10 min, 2007
A conversation of my father with his mother, my grandmother, where love and antipathy towards different family members shift; especially conflict with one of the sisters is to be seen. At the same time it’s a registration of a difficult life of a 93 years old, blind and hard of hearing person.
Family Films: A conversation, 3 min, 2006
A conversation with my 83 years old grandfather, why he never settled a family and about his women. Dialog, that more hides than shows, but the unspoken is equally important.
Family Films: I would have lived like a lord, 10 min, 2007
78 years old uncle Richard recalls a lost chance to educate and develop his musical talent. The story is illustrated with his singing during the Sunday church mass.
Family Films: An elegant boy, 9 min, 2007
A conversation with a 78 years old uncle, how he used to pick up girls, when he was young, how he found his wife and why he married at the age of 43.
Family Films: Don’t remember, 1 min, 2007
A woman, my aunt, who defends herself from confessions. All she says is “I don’t remember”. This little piece stays in interesting contrast to the rich, never ending stories of her husband – the man from the films “I would have lived like a lord” and “An elegant boy”.
Family Films: A motorcycle, 1 min, 2007
An audio piece – my grandmother talks about the choice she had in the far past – to settle a family or to buy a motorcycle.
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