Honorable mention awarded by the jury composed of: Jill Godmilow, Zorka Wollny and Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
Recording of Yesterday. Hundreds of stimuli, roles and tasks influence the chaotic image of reality forming in our mind. The work analyses our perception of a reality in disorder and attempts to translate memory into film. The author juxtaposes mechanical recordings of reality with subjective drawings, which constitute his personal recording of the events. This is a kind of video draft, deliberately careless in recording facts and events with a rather unclear meaning. The nervousness of the drawing underlines the impulsiveness and deliberate “lack of thought”. The author/narrator is hard to find: he becomes disintegrated, he neither wants nor is capable to control the stream of events.
Michał Soja was born in Krakow in 1994. He is still active in his native city. He mostly works with experimental animation, as well as object art and installations. He treats creative work as a cognitive process which delivers new points of view and ways of understanding reality. He is looking for his own methods of recording and observing the world. He tries to recreate the impression of the realistic and tangible nature of everyday life. He relies on drawings to convey his personal interpretation of reality, juxtaposing it with documentary materials providing an objective recording of events. He is currently a 3rd year student of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He took part in the 2016 Triennale of Drawing in Wrocław, was nominated in the Young Wolves 2015 competition in Szczecin and presented his works at two individual exhibitions.