Columbus
Die Geschichte der Entdeckung und Kolonialisierung Amerikas durch Europa
wird über biografische Fragmente von Christoph Columbus erzählt, der wahrscheinlich an einer bipolaren Störung litt. Gefilmt
in der Nähe seines Wohnortes in Polen, erzählt Sasnal den narrativ stringenten Teil über Texttafeln. Sie unterbrechen einen
Fluss von Bildern, die auf den ersten Blick keiner zusammenhängenden Handlung folgen: Ein halbwüchsiger Junge streift durch
einen Park, futuristische Architektur, ein Plattenteller im Halbdunkel, gestapelte Bücher über Geschichte, Gesellschaft und
Politik, schließlich ein älterer Mann und ein Kind bei der Gartenarbeit. Die Textstellen offenbaren in der Folge den symbolischen
Gehalt der kurzen Sequenzen und binden so die postkoloniale Gegenwart an die historische Erzählung. (Claudia Slanar)
Wilhelm Sasnal expands on this very personalized reading of so consequential a historical figure to create a film that examines
the colonizer’s state of mind and legacy in an oblique, home-movie style. (Phaidon)
Director's Biography
ANKA SASNAL, born in 1973 in Tarnów in Poland, studied
Polish literature and gender studies. As a screenwriter, editor, and filmmaker, she lives in Kraków together with Wilhelm
Sasnal, who was also born in Tarnów in 1972 and studied architecture and painting. WILHELM SASNAL attracted international
attention as a visual artist with a series of solo and group exhibitions in renowned international galleries and art institutions
with paintings, comic books, drawings, photographs, and videos. From the first joint film project onwards, significant characteristics
of their artistic collaboration are already visible: the intensive focus on language, texts, and literary models, which they
transform into an image language that suits them. An explicit political stance can be noted in their films – thematically
Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal circle around the current state of Polish society, rising xenophobia, the relationship of Polish society
to the Catholic church, and especially the recent Polish past during the Second World War. A dystopian worldview, although
not so much a pessimistic one – as they say themselves – may certainly be attributed to their work, along with an undisguised
interest in the “dark” side of human beings. Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal are no strangers to the festival audience in Linz, as
they have already been represented in the festival program twice in the past. In 2012, they won the main prize with It Looks
Pretty from a Distance, which premiered in Rotterdam, and then returned with Parasite in 2014.
// Films at CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival 2017
// Co-directed films: Słońce, to słońce mnie oślepiło (The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me, 2016), Huba (Parasite, 2014; CE’14), Aleksander (2013, doc), Z daleka widok jest piękny (It Looks Pretty from a Distance, 2011; CE’12), Świniopas (Swineherd, 2008)
// Films by Wilhelm Sasnal: Afternoon of a Faun (2015, short), Columbus (2014, short), Inhuman Hunger (2014, short), Kacper (2010, short), Europa (2007, short), Brazil (2005, short), Marfa (2005, short)
// Films at CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival 2017
// Co-directed films: Słońce, to słońce mnie oślepiło (The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me, 2016), Huba (Parasite, 2014; CE’14), Aleksander (2013, doc), Z daleka widok jest piękny (It Looks Pretty from a Distance, 2011; CE’12), Świniopas (Swineherd, 2008)
// Films by Wilhelm Sasnal: Afternoon of a Faun (2015, short), Columbus (2014, short), Inhuman Hunger (2014, short), Kacper (2010, short), Europa (2007, short), Brazil (2005, short), Marfa (2005, short)
Tribute 2017
Wilhelm
Sasnal
Polen / Großbritannien
2014
color
27 Minuten
OmeU
Drehbuch
Wilhelm Sasnal
Kamera
Wilhelm Sasnal
Schnitt Wilhelm
Sasnal
Österreichpremiere
Premierenstatus / Premiere StatusAustrian Premiere
Gemeinsam mit / Together with
INHUMAN HUNGER
KACPER
AFTERNOON OF A FAUN