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Grandmamauntsistercat

Zuza Banasińska
Poland / The Netherlands
23'

Created from materials garnered from the Polish Educational Archive, GRANDMAMAUNTSISTERCAT tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.

Originally created as didactic and propagandistic tools in communist Poland, the footage is repurposed as a site of auto-fictional memory, its scientific register shifted toward a treatment of the images themselves as specimens.
The classic Slavic witch figure, Baba Yaga, is reimagined as a prehistoric goddess from the time of matriarchy. This transformation provokes layered reflections on kinship and identity as the child navigates binary gender roles. The women of the family find a home in the archive, engaging in a process of self and world-making that transforms the often sexist and anthropocentric images into tools of freedom and resistance. (Berlinale Forum Expanded)

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Created from materials garnered from the Polish Educational Archive, GRANDMAMAUNTSISTERCAT tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.

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