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Katarzyna Pacura, Jan Szewczyk

Ocean

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 4:9 | Pologne | 2014

The piece "Ocean" was originally a conceptually designed, visual statement for a song by dutch musician, Olivier Heim. Looking for a connection between lyrics and aesthetics, we found main inspiration in the masterpiece by Alain Resnains "Last year in Marienbad". As we didn't want to copy and repeat exactly the same sequences of shots, we were just searching for an universal code, which made that kind of poetics legendary and original. The most important became, how to transfer contemporary sound and looks (meaning ; cinematography, style) into something classic and the other way round. What makes the classics attractive? We consider elegance in filmmaking as our motto and something that should be popular again.

Katarzyna Pacura, born 1986 in Lodz, Poland. Studied at University of Arts in Poznan, Poland, Douglas Gordon Filmclass at Stadelschule, Frankfurt am Main and German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (Dffb - directing). Film and video maker, scriptwriter and visual artists. Jan Szewczyk - born 1986 in Bialystok, Poland. Graduated from University of Arts in Poznan, Poland where currently he continues his Phd studies in contemporary art. Film and video maker, visual artists, cinematographer.