Mary Koszmary, 2007
One channel video and sound installation
16 mm film transferred to DVD
Colour/Sound
Duration: 10'50"
Edition 1/5 + 2 A.P.

Exhibitions

2011/2012 11 Sep - 8 Jan Communitas Among Others, Camera Austria, Graz,AT
2010 29th Bienal de São Paulo, BR
June 2013 - December 2014 Performance Now Independent Curators International, New York, USA

2010 Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, US

2010, National Museum Wales, UK

2010 Yael Bartana, Moderna Museet Malmo, Malmo, Sweden

2010 Media City Seoul, The 6th International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea


Steirischer herbst festival, Graz, Austria, 2010
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2010
2009, The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial, Albania
2009 Contour, 4th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium
2009 Troubles aux Frontieres, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, FR
2009, Transitland Europa Project (group show), Sofia, Budapest, Berlin.
2009, Grand Arts, Kansas City, US
2009 World Tale: Mixed Narratives: A Video Parade from Different Points, The Hacettepe University Art Museum, TURKEY
2009 Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
2009 The Jewish Museum, NY
2009 Monument to Transformation, Tranzit, Prague
2008 International Short Film Festival, Foksal Gallery, Warshau, Poland
2008 (solo) Galleria Raffaella Cortesa, Milano, IT 
Steirischer herbst festival, Graz, Austria, 2010
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2010

Mary Koszmary (Nightmare) is the first film in the trilogy and explores a complicated set of social and political relationships among Jews, Poles and other Europeans in the age of globalisation. A young activist, played here by Sławomir Sierakowski (founder and chief editor of Krytyka Polityczna magazine), delivers a speech in the abandoned National Stadium in Warsaw. He urges three million Jews to come back to Poland. Using the structure and sensibility of a World War II propaganda film, Mary Koszmary addresses contemporary anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Poland, the longing for the Jewish past among liberal Polish intellectuals and the Zionist dream of return to Israel.
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