Light off
2014
Digital photography
From the end of XX century many of cameral cinemas from Lodz (Poland) were shutdown. Non-commercial film productions and their cinemas projections for many reasons are not as popular, as they were before. The multicolour multiplexes have a chance to speak, with their huge capital, wide spectrum of attractions apart from the movies. The places which appreciate the artistic area are vanishing from the cultural map of Lodz.
After getting acquainted with the oral testimony and the archives, I’ve analyzed this issue photographically. In one of the now closed cinemas in Lodz, in the existing perceptual spectrum, I’ve noticed both the contextual absence and the overwhelming loss of potential...
The "Light off" impression, which became the essence of the above-described process, is an expression of my anxiety related to the deepening degradation of the Lodz cinematographic industry.
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