Thursday, 22th May | 12.00 | Gdynia Film Centre: Warszawa room
Partner: Centrum Aktywności Seniora
Documentary Academy | Seniors Club: “Faces Places” film screening and a meeting “Artistic relations are ageless” with film experts, doctoral students of the University of Gdańsk and members of the Production Studies and New History of the Cinema Unit Paulina Pohl and Krystyna Weiher-Sitkiewicz.
Agnès Varda and JR set off on a trip in an old van which has been converted into a mobile photographic camera. They print large format photographs in it and put them up in the public spaces of local communities. Though the age difference between them is nearly 60 years, what they have in common are similar attitudes to life and artistic sensitivity. After the film screening, we will reflect on how to build intergenerational projects wisely or how to indicate mentors for young artists and how to encourage the two groups on how to act together. How do we show people that after breaking the surface age barrier we can build close friendships and cooperate creatively?
Paulina Pohl – culture expert, doctoral student at the Faculty of Languages of the University of Gdańsk. A member and co-founder of Production Studies and New History of the Cinema Unit at the University of Gdańsk. Organizer of cultural activities, film educator, social activist, vice-president of the Machina Zmian foundation, ambassador of the 440 km For a Change project.
Krystyna Weiher-Sitkiewicz – organizer of cultural activities and public relations expert, a specialist in Polish studies and film expert by education. Secretary of the “Przeźrocze” yearbook’s editorial section and doctoral student at the University of Gdańsk. She cooperates with the National Museum of Gdańsk, the Academic Culture Centre Alternator, European Solidarity Centre and Against Gravity.
