Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

UZDROWISKO: ARCHITEKTURA ZAWODZIA

A SPA: ARCHITECTURE OF ZAWODZIE

Ewa Trzcionka
Poland, 2017, 30 Min

If buildings and landscapes had the power of speech, we'd hear many a lament. This complex however, home to a futuristic health resort in the Silesian town of Ustroń, pays tribute to its architects and provides proof that culture and nature are able to coexist harmoniously.

When, back in the sixties, the powers that be in communist Poland publicise plans to build a health resort for the working class, the chosen architects manage to convince them that the health of the nation can only be ensured by bringing nature and architecture into harmony. Vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, fundamentals of the architectural canon, are to reconcile the forests and mountains with the newly-constructed concrete cubes in order to give the structures a sense of functionality and purpose in the midst of the surrounding landscape.

In this minimalist work Ewa Trzcionka revisits the story of an idea and its implementation, whilst at the time introducing audiences to what is both a gem of Polish modernism and an important chapter of European cultural history. KM

Filmformat
DCP | doc. | Farbe / Colour
Drehbuch
Ewa Trzcionka
Kamera
Roman Kałuża-Wierzchosławski
Ton
Piotr Gburek, Łukasz Fober
Schnitt
Kamil Śliwka
Darsteller
Aleksander Franta, Jerzy Dzierżewicz, Irma Kozina, Przemo Łukasik,
Robert Konieczny, Piotr Mazik, Wiktor Naturski
Produzent
Kamil Śliwka, Mateusz Bielesz
Produktion
NOX Studio
Kontakt
NOX Studio
www.nox.studio
Kamil Śliwka
kamil@nox.studio
0048781458678

ul. Kredytowa 5,
05-077 Warsawa
Poland
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