Initiation (Iwona Pasi¿ska, Poland 2017)

`Initiation¿ is the musical and cinematic experiment directed by Iwona Pasi¿ska, with the hipnotizing music composed by Jacek Sienkiewicz and Andrzej Grabowski¿s ascetic scenography, in which each prop has its own significance. The sofisticated visual form, supersaturated with the subtle play of the artificial light and the evening darkness, entwines with the widely understood physical expression of dance artists from the Polish Dance Theatre. Each of the black and white frames creating this short ¿ feature film is the separate, pictorial composition which could exist as an independent picture or artistic photography. They pan out into the dreamlike story, in which the viewer¿s perception is strongly influenced ¿ apart from the movement of the dancers ¿ by the motion of the movie camera, cyclically returning to the same places. Looking into the human habitats, toxic relationships and untamed fears we can see that demons, with whom the characters struggle often exemplify social problems described on the front pages of newspapers. One of the figures comes to know human traums, experiencing subsequent life scenes in space of imagination. How does his `initiation¿ ¿ his cover attempt to enter into reality ¿ end? Director Biography - Iwona Pasi¿ska Iwona Pasi¿ska is a choreographer, movement dramatist, theatre theorist, artistic director of Movements Factory and co-founder of the Movements Factory Foundation. Director of the Polish Dance Theatre.