Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors

OBCY AKTORZY / FOREIGN ACTORS
London Whitechapel Project Space
9-11 February 2007

Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors, a film by Matthew Noel-Tod, reworks classic works of Polish cinema, from directors such as Wajda and Kieslowski. The film is a new work, collaging remade elements from the original films, with a cast of Polish actors, including famous Polish actress Ewa Kasprzyk.

Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors (Matthew Noel-Tod, 2006)

Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors
Matthew Noel-Tod, UK/Poland, 2006, Beta SP, colour, sound, 46 minutes

Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors takes as its starting point Polish cinema. Polish actors were invited to audition in Warsaw with dialogue from a favourite Polish film. The actors in Obcy Aktorzy / Foreign Actors perform a series of moments from the films Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Man of Iron (1981) Dekalog 4 (1988) and Sequence of Feelings (1993). Famous Polish actress Ewa Kasprzyk was invited to join the cast and re-perform her dialogue from Sequence of Feelings. During a process of revision and rehearsals, the words and characters from the original films became recontextualised into a new narrative, including actors and characters inhabiting multiple fictions and dramatic spaces. Aesthetic, sexual, historical and dramatic senses are manipulated to create a video that is a dialogue between artist and actors, between language and image, between past and present.

Featuring Ewa Kasprzyk, Sandra Samos, Juliusz Dzienkiewicz, Robert Mazurkiewicz, Katarzyna Maternowska, Malgorzata Kasprzycka.

Produced at a-i-r laboratory CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw through an Arts Council England International Fellowship, 2005.

An accompanying 128pp publication, with Polish and English texts, is available priced £10 from Whitechapel Project Space, and from LUX.

Whitechapel Project Space screening supported by the Polish Cultural Institute, London.

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Whitechapel Project Space
20 Fordham Street London E1 1HS
Nearest Tube: Aldgate East / Whitechapel
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Admission Free
Telephone: 077 4823 5428
www.whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk

Screenings begin on the hour
Friday 9 February 2007, from 7-9pm (free Polish vodka)
Saturday 10 February 2007, from 1-6pm
Sunday 11 February 2007, from 1-6pm

www.matthewnoel-tod.com