19th of May (Saturday)
8.00 PM / 1.00 AM Wyspa Institute of Art
Admission free

Spend The Night of Museums in Gdańsk Shipyard ! Wyspa Institute of Art offers a demonstration of the latest animations of Lodz’s film studio - Se-Ma-For.

The projections will be held simultaneously in two places: in a specially arranged kiosk in front of Wyspa Institute of Art and in the film room, on the first floor of our building. During the Night of Museums you will be able to visit our bookstore, in the same evening a special discounted offer for the guests, will be prepared by Buffet Club.

Videos will be displayed without breaks, in two main thematic areas

4th Festival of Polish Short Films. SHORT WAVES

14th of April (Friday)
7 PM / Wyspa Institute of Art
Admission free

Between 12 and 28 April 2012 the Festival of Polish Short Films will travel across all over Poland, also visiting some foreign cities.

The programme comprises the latest Polish productions from feature films, through documents, animation, video-art to video-clips. The public gathered at the Festival shows will enjoy the opportunity to vote and select the winner of the Main Prize. Additionally, the Festival will grant the Short Waves PRO prize, the winner of which will be selected by a professional jury.
Short Waves goes across the borders of geography and genre. Similar to radio short waves, which attain large distances, the Festival tries to reach everywhere wherever the viewers hungry for short-time experience are waiting.

Set your tuners to the fourth edition of Short Waves!

10th of February (Saturday)
07:00 PM / Wyspa Institute of Art
Free entrance

Wyspa Institute of Art and Film Discussion Club "Marcelo" invite you for a subsequent show from the cycle of World Shorts. This time you could view short films from Greece. As those who saw "The Thug" and/ or „Attenberg” know, the Greek cinema successfully opposes the crisis.

18th of February (Saturday)
07:00 PM / Wyspa Institute of Art
Free entrance

Wyspa Institute of Art and DKF Marcello (Film Discussion Club) invite you to the show from the series of World Shorts, which presents short films from all over the world to the public. We will present a programme composed of the most interesting productions form Sweden.

27th of January (Friday)
22:00 PM / Buffet Club,  Wyspa Institute of Art
Introduction Joanna Sarbiewska (University of Gdańsk)
Free entrance

Piotr Szulkin’s film ’Oczy uroczne’ ("Spellbinding Eyes") from 1976 is a story based on a dismal folk tale about a Lord whose gaze causes death. The Lord, closed in his castle leads his dreary life alone until, one day, a nobleman and his daughter lose their way and seek for help on his premises. This oneiric cinema, spells the story with no words, using only images and choral chants. The film is crowded with corpses of dead people from the area of history and culture, which adds an erudite zest making the Szulkin’s film a specific essay. The narrative function is taken over by music which will be played by the MAMROCZ group in this particular re-interpretation.

Mamrocz is a collective established for the interpretations of Szulkin’s film, spicing the director’s filmed images with an improvised form – an exchange between Natalia Grzebała (piano, voice) and Robert Kamiński (synthesisers) – who are musicians linked to the formations Le Bâtard de la Raison / The Bastard of the Mind and Kciuk & The Fingers (The Thumb & The Fingers) in their daily practice..

Detailed information about the film on the site IMDB

„Santa’s Workshop” documentary
Meeting with Yang Yu and Debby Chan
6.12.2011 time 19.00

On the occasion of St. Nicolas Day, when children in Poland traditionally receive presents, we will talk about situation of toy factory workers in China, where 80% of global production in that sector is located. Moreover, on 10th Dec we celebrate Human Rights Day. Processes of globalization and pressure of international competition often lead to severe human rights violations. Civil society organizations and trade unions worldwide fight against corporate practices, that sustain exploitation of workers at the bottom of the supply chain. What about us, consumers? Can we do something about it?

We will listen to the testimonial of  Yang Yu, former worker of Tai Qiang factory, (manufacturing toys for Mattel) and Debby Chan, human and worker’s rights activist investigating working conditions in factories in Guangdong province. She represents the organization Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM, Hong Kong) which keeps track of abuses connected with manufacturing of brand products.

25th of November (Friday)
09:00 PM / Hall 90B

Directed by: Bożena Eltermann
Concept and choreography: Bożena Eltermann
Cast:  Bożena Eltermann, Anna Steller, Marek Kakareko, Adrianna Kubik

Guest appereance of the musicians: Olo Walicki, Gaba Kulka

Tickets: 20 PLN / available in Buffet and ISW

Bożena Elterman’s most recent production „Heretics, Heterics, Hedonists, Celebrities” refers to  the aesthetics of the period between the wars of the twentieth century, and her own art project – the Cynada Theatre refers to a German Expressionism and artists such as Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman.

Wyspa Institute of Art / Buffet /  Hall 90B
27 of September 2011
7.00 - 11.00  PM

Curators: Inke Arns (Dortmund) & Thibaut de Ruyter (Berlin)
Coordinator: Daniel Muzyczuk
Advisor: Michał Libera

The exhibition and film programme INDUSTRIAL asks ‘whatever happened to the industry?’. It would in fact appear that industrial modes of production have not so much disappeared as migrated from one place – the early industrial countries – to another. While ‘first-world’ nations have only just completed a 40-year-long history of de-industrialisation, so-called emerging countries are undergoing a rapid and massive process of industrialisation. How has the industry managed to resettle in those regions (notably China and India), what are the working conditions in its new factories, and what is its heritage in the areas it has left behind? Has it actually susbsided in traditional industrial countries, or is the notion of immaterial labour merely an uncanny resurgence of the classic industrial model, whose might is now inscribed in contemporary, post-industrial modes of production? Within the framework of the Culture Season North Rhine-Westphalia in Poland 2011/12 Tam’Tam, over the course of the first two weeks in October the HMKV will present INDUSTRIAL on Tour, a film and music programme hosted by five industrial towns in Poland (Bytom, Tarnów, Łódź, Nowa Huta/Kraków, Gdańsk). During this time it plans to conduct further research for the exhibition in collaboration with the respective local partners.

It’s Gas! Teatr KontemPlujący, Słupsk, Poland
24th of September, Wyspa Institute of Art

Directed by Joanna Stoike-Stępkowska
With Agnieszka Bednarek, Monika Jasiak, Małgorzata Łosiewicz, Żaneta Mroczyńska, Sabina Soboń, Robert Chomicki, Norbert Jaszkul, Kamil Kierszniewski, Marcin Soboń, Bartosz Pakuła, Patryk Roszkowski

It’s Gas!, a production based on the drama by Szymon Wróblewski, depicts people who want to have their own country and live like citizens of other independent countries. They are so determined to reach their goal that they resort to terrorist attacks. Specifically the play concerns Chechnya under Russian rule and references an event in 2002 when Chechnyan terrorists attacked a Moscow theater and took hostages. In an attempt to rescue the hostages, the Russians launched a brutal raid which claimed about 300 victims. Like Chechens, Kurds have also for years striven to establish an independent State. They, too, form groups of rebels ready to fight for independence. It’s Gas! tackles the topic of terrorism metaphorically. No one says the words “Chechnya” or “Russia”. Instead, there is Sparta, which fights for its rights, and imperialist Rome. The production might as well deal with Kurds and Turkey, or Iraq. The mechanisms leading to the most desperate moves such as terrorism remain the same.