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New Orleans Film Society

Zietek

Originally screened October 11, 2008

POLAND 17 min.

Director
Bartosz Blaschke

Synopsis

An engaging, hugely entertaining portrait of sculptor Bogdan Zietek, a self-taught artist who has been creating life-size sculptures of women for over 40 years. His whole house is filled with sexy pin-up girls made out of lime wood, each with her own name and personality. Sometimes they become alive and talk to the artist, and all happens in the presence of the sculptor’s long-suffering wife. The borders between real life and a dream, the truth and imagination, slowly vanish…