“ALEKSANDER” BY ANKA AND WILHELM SASNAL HONORED AT CPH:DOX
The film “Aleksander” directed by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal received a Special Mention at the CPH:DOX festival, which ended on 17th November. The film took part in the New Vision competitive section.
This year’s edition of the CPH:DOX festival ended on Sunday, November 17th. Among the awarded films there is one Polish production. The picture “Aleksander” by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal received a Special Mention in the New Vision section. To justify their verdict, the jury stated: "’Aleksander’ is a quiet, nuanced portrait of rural life. Obsessively observational and classical in tone, the film follows a Polish family of farmers in their daily life."
“Aleksander” was created as a result of regular visits of Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal to a village called Zielona, located 40km from Cracow and discovered by the artists during the shoot of the film “It Looks Pretty From a Distance”. In the beginning, it was supposed to be a fiction film, but in the making it grew closer to a documentary form. “Aleksander” is an image of a farmer’s life of Aleksander Piotrowski and his family in Zielona.
At the CPH:DOX documentary festival in Copenhagen the film was screened in the New Vision section, dedicated to artistic and experimental films, oscillating between visual art and documentary film. The titles invited to participate in this section are intended to be provoking, radical, can be even poetic or politically engaged, but most of all, they should challenge the viewer and search for new solutions.
More information about the awarded films can be found at CPH:DOX website.