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Grandmamauntsistercat
The classic Slavic witch Baba Jaga is reimagined as a “prehistoric goddess from the times of the matriarchy” using found footage from the Polish Educational Film Studio archive. This transformation incites layered reflections on kinship and identity, guided by a child grappling with binary gender roles.
The often sexist and anthropocentric images, created as didactic materials in the communist era, are repurposed into an emotive portrait of a multispecies matriarchal family seeking freedom and empowerment.
Bio Zuza Banasińska
Audiovisual artist Zuza Banasińska (1994) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Universität der Künste in Berlin, and Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Their practice concentrates on the creation of video-based environments in which virtual and real elements are hybridised beyond distinction, resulting in an affective mapping. Their artistic projects have been displayed at U-Jazdowski CCA in Warsaw, Dům Umění Mesta Brna in the Czech Republic, and Blindside in Melbourne.
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- This film was #78 in the “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025