Grandmamauntsistercat
Southeast Asian Premiere
Zuza Banasińska Poland, Netherlands 2024 23 min PG13 (Some Disturbing Scenes)
A child builds a new world fashioned from the archival remnants of the old world.
Drawing on archival footage from the Educational Film Studio in Łódź—originally intended as ideological tools in communist Poland—the film recontextualises these didactic materials as a child explores gender, kinship and self-representation. At the heart of the narrative is the Slavic folkloric figure of Baba Yaga, reimagined as a radical matriarch embodying the women in the child’s family, personifying the transformative power of feminine figures. Together, these shadowy figures rewrite the terms of self-narration.
Please note this film will be screening as part of a Triple Bill with an overall rating of R21.
4 Dec, Wed 7:00PM / 84 min
Oldham Theatre
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Grandmamauntsistercat
Zuza Banasińska
Poland, Netherlands
2024
Polish
English
23 min
PG13 (Some Disturbing Scenes)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Zuza Banasińska
Zuza Banasińska is a Warsaw-born artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Their works examine archives and their role in circulating knowledge and reifying truths. Grandmamauntsistercat won the Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlinale.
Zuza Banasińska,
Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych w Łodzi
Grandmamauntsistercat, On the Impossibility of an Homage, It’s Not Me
