Movie A Song of Humble Beauty
Watch from 30.05 to 15.06
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FilmA Song of Humble Beauty
Poland2025documentary56'In the era of mass production of disposable goods, this trip to present-day Karachi resembles a journey back in time. It brings us to places where beautiful items are manufactured with patience and impressive mastery. Wandering through the streets, bazaars, workshops and local shops, we take a sneak peek at the work of traditional dyers, potters or embroiderers. What we gain is more than an ethnographic record. Devoid of words, this visually rich poem is also a cinematic meditation on the richness of Pakistani culture to the purifying sounds of Sufi mantras.
- directed by
- Anna Konik
Video artist, photographer, painter and sculptor. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and in 2012, she earned a PhD in Fine Arts from the Department of Media and Scenography of the same school. In 2009, she was nominated to the Deutsche Bank Award Views 2009 and to the Passport award presented by the Polityka weekly. She has won a number of artistic and academic scholarships, including those granted by the AiR Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, L’Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes and IASPIS – the Swedish Visual Arts Fund’s International Programme. Her works have been exhibited at many Polish and European art galleries.
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In the era of mass production of disposable goods, this trip to present-day Karachi resembles a journey back in time. It brings us to places where beautiful items are manufactured with patience and impressive mastery. Wandering through the streets, bazaars, workshops and local shops, we take a sneak peek at the work of traditional dyers, potters or embroiderers. What we gain is more than an ethnographic record. Devoid of words, this visually rich poem is also a cinematic meditation on the richness of Pakistani culture to the purifying sounds of Sufi mantras.
- directed by
- Anna Konik
Video artist, photographer, painter and sculptor. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and in 2012, she earned a PhD in Fine Arts from the Department of Media and Scenography of the same school. In 2009, she was nominated to the Deutsche Bank Award Views 2009 and to the Passport award presented by the Polityka weekly. She has won a number of artistic and academic scholarships, including those granted by the AiR Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, L’Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes and IASPIS – the Swedish Visual Arts Fund’s International Programme. Her works have been exhibited at many Polish and European art galleries.
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