Marcin Giżycki and his America exhibition

After arriving in the United States, Marcin Giżycki, like Wim Wenders, came to understand that America is a “Land made of Images” (Wim Wenders, The American Dream). Accordingly, he exchanged a pen for a Polaroid camera. The Polaroid technique satisfied the impatience of this collector of motifs which he felt represented the iconosphere of the entire country. He later discovered the technique of Polaroid transfer which, because of its signature blurred contours, makes photography look more like painting and renders the images more abstract. In the film Arrow Board Game, he used his most complete collection of signs to indicate that Paradise was around the corner. The many years that Marcin Giżycki and Agnieszka Taborska spent in Providence also introduced them to the history of spiritualism and its role in the emancipation of women. Taborska’s book The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks talks about these fascinating phenomena. Giżycki adapted the story for the screen.

November 6 (Wednesday) at 4:00 p.m. the special screening of Arrow Board Game and The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks will begin, followed by a meeting about Marcin Giżycki's books and the opening of the exhibition in the lobby on the first floor of the New Horizons Cinema (admission to films on the basis of tickets or for the passes/accreditation holders; admission to the exhibition is free of charge). The exhibition will be open from November 5-11.