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Copyright © 2007 Against Gravity
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Grzegorz Brzozowski | Orly Buium | Karolina Famulska | Katarzyna Kulińska | Abigail Liebman | Yossi Meiri | Jonathan Rozenbaum | Adam Szumilak | Anna Traczyńska | Nir David Zats |
The Family of Exiles - a film
Dir.: Grzegorz Brzozowski Photography: Magda Kowalczyk Production: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, 2008, 30 min Executive production: Against Gravity Artistic supervision: Maciej Drygas, Mateusz Werner This is a story about a family which gathered a variety of experiences throughout the 20th century including displacement, expulsion, and being deprived of one’s roots. Despite the generation gaps and varying motivations, the members of each generation seem to follow a similar pattern, leave their homes around certain age. The oldest family member was sent to Siberia during WWII, his son left Poland for Israel in 1969; while his granddaughter decided to leave from Israel in order to study in the U.S. Farewells and returns intertwine as a constant motif in the family’s history. What effects can such accumulation of experience have? How did the family adjust to constant changes? What is worth taking with you if one is leaving home forever? „At every stage of this project we kept realizing that reality outgrows any abstract ideas I tried to impose on it”
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Grzegorz Brzozowski, born in 1983 in Wysokie Mazowieckie, graduated from Sociology Department, studies Psychology and Reportage at Warsaw University. He developed interest in films through his work in a Film Society and carrying out amateur student projects in the Netherlands. This is his first documentary project. His fields of interest are: sociology of religion, performance and conflict studies.