Serpentine Cinema presents Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Such Feeling.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ first feature-length film started as a prologue to his choreographic exhibition entitled Such Feeling at Kunsthalle Basel. This process-led cine-performance follows a group of friends, Aaa, Billy, Dawid, Filipka, and Olo, who perform, protest and support each other in the face of a hostile environment for queer people in Poland. Amongst these performances and protests, ordinary and ephemeral moments mix with conversations about happiness, sex, and dreams. Such Feeling is a film about queer life; a portrait of friends and a documentary about transformation, intimacy, and performance.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Ivo Krankowski and Filipka Rutkowska, moderated by Juliet Jacques.
“The most important contemporary documentary on queer Warsaw. An honest portrait of a group of friends, which became a generational manifesto.” – WatchDocs Film Festival, 2024
Presented in collaboration with Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and KINOTEKA.
BSL interpretation is available on request. Please get in touch at [email protected] if you would like to request this.
Bios
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is an artist and choreographer engaging with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire. Relationality is present in the dialogical ways in which the work is developed and performed as well as in the materials and poetics it invokes. This includes tracing relations between sensation and sociality, embodied expression and alienation, the textures of everyday experience, the utopian and latent queer histories. He approaches choreography as a way of reflecting on the matter of feeling, perception and collective emergence, while indulging in other ways of experiencing memory, time and change. He is co-founder of Kem, a Warsaw-based queer feminist collective focused on choreography, performance and sound at the interface with social practice. Through various experimental formats and community building, Kem engages in critical intimacy and queer pleasure.
Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published six books including Trans: A Memoir (2015) and Variations (2021) and made three short films. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and elsewhere.
Ivo Krankowski is a director, screenwriter and producer based in London and Warsaw. Author of award winning short films. Creative producer of the Netflix series, 1670. Founder of the film production company LaCamera Independent.
Filipka Rutkowska – as a gender-liminal performance artist, she transforms bodies, costumes, and objects into ephemeral personas that challenge conventional notions of identity. Her works have been presented by the Gothenburg Biennale, Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris, West Museum in The Hague, Ongoing Art Center in Tokyo, Galeria Municipal in Porto, Nube Baja in Buenos Aires, Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. As a curator, she is developing Casa Filipka, a project inspired by the historical Casa Susanna, which has been shown soi far in Mexico City and Lisbon. She also writes the column Filipka in the Big City for Vogue Poland, offering a queer perspective on contemporary reality.
Directed by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Produced by Ivo Krankowski
Written by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins and Krzysztof Bagiński
Cinematography by Krzysztof Bagiński
Editing by Agata Cierniak, Albert Bana
Music by Jasia Rabiej
Starring Aaa Biczysko, Filipka Rutkowska, Billy Morgan, Dawid Nickel, Olo Rusinek
Graphic design by Carlo Canún and Rosen Eveleigh
Co-produced by LaCamera Independent, Canal+ Poland, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission
With the support of Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Media partner: Vogue Polska
Curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos, Curator, Live Programmes and Daisy Gould, Assistant Curator, Live Programmes. Produced by Isobel Peyton-Jones.
