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DIARY OF A BEHOLDER

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By Jarosław MIGOŃ

KRAKOVIA PRODUCCIONES - as PROD

Art - Culture - Completed 2017

The film shows twelve days in the life of Jacek Sroka. The story is based on the diary, or rather, the anti-diary of the artist, mixing the artistic with the intimate; distance with proximity; the imagined with the supposed.

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& Awards

Ventana Sur 2017
Video Library
World Media Festival in Hamburg 2017
Intermedia-globe GOLD
World Media Festival in Hamburg 2017
Intermedia Special Award - MAGIC EYE
World Media Festival in Hamburg 2017
Intermedia-globe GRAND AWARD
Polish Film Festival in America 2017
selected
World Media Festival in Hamburg 2017
selected
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    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture, Documentary
    • Countries
    • POLAND, CHILE
    • Languages
    • POLISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 62 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jarosław MIGOŃ
    • Writer(s)
    • Jarosław MIGOŃ
    • Producer(s)
    • Jaroslaw MIGON, Francisco BASSIGNANA (Krakovia Producciones), Elzbieta MIGOŃ (grafiQa )
    • Synopsis
    • The film shows twelve days in the life of Jacek Sroka. The story is based on the diary, or rather, an anti-diary of the artist, mixing the artistic with the intimate; distance with proximity; the imagined with the supposed. The world of the artist's paintings and his personal life permeate each other, while privacy in his work gains universal value.
      Language of the film – its “third protagonist" – oscillates between documentary narrative (the story about the pictures) and magical realism (compelling animations), finding its own expression, rich and surprisingly broad: we follow the camera through the nooks and crannies of the house, the studio… and the artist's imagination.

      Text written by Jacek Sroka in 1995 became the inspiration for the movie "Diary of a Beholder".

      Tuesday, April 25.
      Before noon, I was painting the Diora radio and the patterned wallpaper – medium-sized. I did not leave the house.
      Wednesday, April 26.
      I did nothing. I didn’t go out.
      Thursday, April 27.
      In the morning, I was observing the neighbours. I was painting without conviction.
      Friday, April 28.
      Sketches for the “Restif Cases”. I didn’t go out.
      Saturday, April 29.
      I did not paint. I didn’t leave the house.
      Sunday, April 30.
      I didn’t paint.

      Jacek Sroka born in 1957 in Kraków (Cracow).
      Painter and printmaker and illustrator, he studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where in the years 1981 – 1988 he worked as an assistant professor in the Engraving Studio. He presented his paintings and prints in over one hundred solo shows (in Kraków, Warsaw, Wrocław, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Reykjavik, Amsterdam, Maastricht, San Francisco, Vienna, Lyon, and Beijing, among others). He also took part in several hundred group shows, domestic and international. His works are part of museum collections in Poland (including: National Museum in Kraków; Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz; Museum of Contemporary Art in Radom; Jagiellonian Library; PAU Collection of Graphic Art) and abroad (including: Metropolitan Museum, New York; Graphishe Sammlung Albertina, Vienna; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musee Savoisien, Chambery; Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque National de France, Paris; Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya; Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba).
      IIn 2008 the National Museum in Kraków held a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s paintings and prints.

      The musical layer of the film consists of 26 tracks, including 10 pieces arranged for accordion. In total, it is almost 60 minutes of music, composed and arranged in its entirety by Marcin Gałażyn, otherwise known as one of the three pillars of the Motion Trio. The whole Motion Trio also feature in the film. Janusz Wojtarowicz, Paweł Baranek and Marcin Gałażyn perform "UFO" - the flagship song of the “Sroka in Motion” project – artistic collaboration between Jacek Sroka and Jarek Migoń, started in 2014.
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