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\n\t\tThe Smuggler\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t

2014\/2016
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collaboration: Aleksander Blaszkiewicz, Marta Hryniuk, Jan J\u0119chorek, Piotr Kurka, Wiktor \u0141apa, Krzysztof \u0141ukomski, Agnieszka Mi\u0119\u017ca\u0142, Maciej Nowacki, and Zosia Pie\u0144kowska; photography: Marta W\u0119gli\u0144ska, Marcin Ptaszy\u0144ski, Patrycja Plich; music: Marta Knaflewska; voiceover: Anna Pr\u0119tka
zdj\u0119cia: Marta W\u0119gli\u0144ska, Marcin Ptaszy\u0144ski, Patrycja Plich
muzyka: Marta Knaflewska
lektorka: Ania Pr\u0119tka<\/p>

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An experimental film created as a result of long-term, field-based performative activities carried out with a group of nine participants.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

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\"The Smuggler\" is an essayistic film that straddles the boundaries between performance, documentary, and speculative fiction. The project revolves around the themes of unexplained conspiracy, metaphorical smuggling, and circulating knowledge, rooted in the relationship between humans and the landscape and memory of a place. The film is set in a forest area of former fortifications\u2014a space shaped by artificial hills, valleys, and concrete ruins, which act not as a backdrop but as an active participant in the events.<\/span><\/p>

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The film is the result of <\/span>long-term fieldwork and a series of performative situations<\/b> carried out with people without acting experience. Their presence oscillates between autobiographical testimony, improvisation, and a consciously constructed role. The script remains open and subject to change, and the narrative is created in the process - through conversations, monologues, interviews, and on-camera activities. This way of working places the film within <\/span>the expanded documentary genre<\/span> and practices that utilize <\/span>processuality, uncertainty, and collective production of meaning<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>

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The central theme of the film is the tension between<\/span> mapping and disorientation<\/b>, knowledge and intuition, memory and fiction. Recurring images of grids, lines, routes, and gates intertwine with stories of disturbed perception, paranoid thought structures, and the experience of landscape as a field of control, experimentation, or initiation. The phrase <\/span>\u201cblood is almost chlorophyll\u201d<\/span><\/i> spoken in the film becomes a symbolic point of contact between the human body and biological processes, suggesting a posthumanist perspective in which the boundaries between nature and culture become blurred.<\/span><\/p>

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Dialogue and voice play a causal role in The Smuggler - it does not illustrate the image, but constitute it, revealing a multi-layered network of relationships between the participants, the place, and the growing narrative of conspiracy. The film operates in an atmosphere close to that of Andrei Tarkovsky's cinema, but instead of metaphysics, it focuses on <\/span>the contemporary experience of anxiety, confusion, and the loss of stable cognitive frameworks<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201ePrzemytnik\u201d lokuje si\u0119 na styku <\/span>kina performatywnego, praktyk terenowych i artystycznego researchu<\/b>, traktuj\u0105c krajobraz jako archiwum afekt\u00f3w, pami\u0119ci i spekulatywnych opowie\u015bci. To film o przenikaniu si\u0119 fikcji i rzeczywisto\u015bci, w kt\u00f3rym sam proces poszukiwania staje si\u0119 g\u0142\u00f3wnym przedmiotem pracy artystycznej.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Przemytnik 2014\/201600:49:27, audio-video https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ISc8o0hwR_0 wsp\u00f3\u0142praca: Aleksander Blaszkiewicz, Marta Hryniuk, Jan J\u0119chorek, Piotr Kurka, Wiktor \u0141apa, Krzysztof \u0141ukomski, Agnieszka Mi\u0119\u017ca\u0142, Maciej Nowacki i Zosia Pie\u0144kowska.zdj\u0119cia: Marta W\u0119gli\u0144ska, Marcin Ptaszy\u0144ski, Patrycja Plichmuzyka: Marta Knaflewskalektorka: Ania Pr\u0119tka Eksperymentalny film powsta\u0142y w wyniku d\u0142ugoterminowych, terenowych dzia\u0142a\u0144 performatywnych realizowanych z grup\u0105 dziewi\u0119ciu uczestnik\u00f3w. \u00a0 \u201ePrzemytnik\u201d jest filmem eseistycznym na pograniczu […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1328,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1320","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Smuggler - Marta W\u0119gli\u0144ska - Research-based Experimental Film on Landscape<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Experimental essay film exploring landscape, memory, and human\u2013nature relations through fieldwork, collective performance, and speculative narratives.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/martaweglinska.pl\/en\/przemytnik\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Smuggler - 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