Zuza Banasińska is a Polish filmmaker from Warsaw. They studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany, and at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In 2017, in the Belorussian village of Dobrovola, I found a photo album created by Boris. In the years 1984-86 he was in served in the military in Crimea. Drawings in the album indicate the author's interest in the cosmos, specifically the radar complex near Eupatoria. By transforming the album into a virtual space of observation of various paths of memory, the temporal and spatial scale has been disturbed and private memories are on an equal footing with interplanetary ones.
Film created from the Polish Educational Archive materials, telling the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems. Originally created as didactic and propagandist tools in communist Poland, the footage is repurposed as a locus of auto-fictional memories, with their scientific register shifted towards a treatment of images themselves as specimens.