Experimental Poland 1# – The Vanished World

Curator: Federico Rossin

This program tries to offer a possible and humble solution to a fundamental dilemma of our times, the one between representation and its limits. How can we represent the Shoah and how can we portray the vanished Jewish world of Poland, if we must compare Auschwitz to “an earthquake [that] destroys not only lives, buildings, and objects but also the instruments used to measure earthquakes directly or indirectly (Lyotard)”?

Józef Robakowski - 6 000 000 (1962), 5 minutes

Andrzej Brzozowski - Archeologia [Archeology] (1967), 14 minutes

Walerian Borowczyk - Les Jeux des anges [The Games of Angels] (1964), 13 minutes

Jerzy Ziarnik - Patrzę natwoją fotografię [I am Looking at Your Photograph] (1979), 9 minutes

Janusz Morgenstern - Ambulans [Ambulance] (1961), 10 minutes

Ryszard Czekała - Apel [The Roll Call] (1971), 7 minutes

Janusz Majewski - Róża [The Rose] (1962), 10 minutes

Edward Etler – Cmentarz Remu [Remuh Cemetery] (1961), 13:48 minutes