Bogna Burska

A Thousand Deaths found footage video  2010/2011

first screening 05.05.2011  Center of Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski Warsaw

Bogna Burska Movies. Found footage 2004-2011

Center of Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw

Screenings: 5-6.05.2011, 9-10.05.2011 and 12.05.2011, 14-15.05.2011

Sala KINO/ Audytorium

Curator: Agnieszka Żechowska

Remake found footage video (footage from 2 feature films)  4’38″  2009

Video meeting Christ from Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and Count Monte Cristo stared by the same actor. In this story Christ escapes his execution there for liberates himself from one of the most important stories in human history. This work is also a remake of my earlier work A Very Bad Dream of Count of Monte Cristo.

12:30 excerpt 1’52″ of 12’30″

12:30 from series of found footage videos Clocks, 12’30’’, Views 2009 – Deutche Bank Foundation Prize exhibition, National Gallery Zachęta, Warsaw 2009  collaboration with Michał Januszaniec

One of „film clocks” presented on a round two-sided screen placed in arc of interior of National Gallery Zachęta. Form and placement of a projection relates it to place meant for clocks in interiors of big buildings designed for public purposes.

Clocks series of found footage videos, 2009
Series of videos where rectangular film frame was transformed into a ring. Left and right edge of a video frame meet in one line and objects visible in film move inside a ring similarly to clock hands.
Based on co-relations between theories on time and structure of film medium this works are specific film clocks presenting images of time – endless variations related as well to it’s scientific idea as to subjective perception.

Chronicle video stills presented as slide show, 1’50’’, 2008

Collection of stills from feature films depicting blood signed with place and date it was made (according to the film narration) presented as slide show and pretending to be police photo chronicle of real crime scenes.

Found Footage interactive video installation  (5’37’’ found footage with material from 3 feature films)   2008   collaboration with Michał Januszaniec

Installation of a room of small shady erotic cinema with vending machine to play movies. Vending machine is a reconstruction of such a machine present in a film – one of three movies composing video played after inserting a coin. Video tells a true story of strange coincidences and confusion of reality and fiction, all related to world of cinema

Shooting Star excerpt 3’53″ of 47’25″

Shooting Star found footage video (footage from 37 feature films) 47’25’’  2006/2008  collaboration with Michał Januszaniec

Video compiled of movies starring Al Pacino. It introduces the star actor in almost all his fictional incarnations, but at the same time it is an attempt to create a new integral, coherent story of a man, who lives his life, makes a professional career, falls in love (twice), matures and finally passes away.
The work is an analysis of the phenomenon of a movie star. Actors’ appearances are always marked by a certain duality: of being a new distinct character in every movie and forming an even stronger, recognizable personality as individual actor in the same time.

series a game with the shifting mirrors  part 3

Wind excerpt 2’09″ of 11’50″

Wind found footage video (footage from 39 feature films) 11’50’’  2006/2007  collaboration with Michał Januszaniec

Video compiled of scenes showing both human attempts to fly and suicidal jumps. It is a story of a quest for liberty, in which the dream of love meets desire of death.

series a game with the shifting mirrors  part 2

God Is Vain excerpt 2’04″ of 23’28″

God Is Vain found footage video (footage from 51 feature films)  23’28’’  2006/2007  collaboration with Michał Januszaniec

Video compiled of fragments doubling image of human being – mirroring reflections or pairs of the same sex. Work is an attempt to analyze concept and iconography of mirror or symmetric reflection. At the same time video is constructed as coherent love story where two lovers meet, overcome obstacles and end happily in each others arms.

series a game with the shifting mirrors  part 2

A Heart So White excerpt 4’26 of 38’41″

A Heart So White found footage video  (footage from 67 feature films)  38’41’’  2006/2007  collaboration with Michał Januszaniec

Video collecting and analyzing iconography and meanings of blood. Vide is also an attempt to build a film narration based on associations of images and their inner connections.

series a game with the shifting mirrors  part 2

Piece of Jade found footage video (footage from 3 feature films)  8’03’’  2006/2007

Video about fatal attraction. Three movies are compiled into one story narrated by the same actor in a very similar manner create coherent and logical love story.

series a game with the shifting mirrors  part 1

A Very Bad Dream of Count of Monte Cristo found footage video (footage from 2 feature films)  7’52’’  2006/2007

Video meeting Christ from Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and Count Monte Cristo stared by the same actor. Both movies touch boundaries of suffering and question – intentionally or not – religious believes of both characters and viewers.

video series a game with the shifting mirrors  part 1

One More found footage video  (footage from 2 feature films)  4’20’’  2006/2007

The same politically incorrect joke told in two different otherwise unconnected movies was edited together into one work. A racist joke is being told by a white and black person alternately.

series a game with the shifting mirrors  part 1

Margaret – video excerpt 1’04″ of 6’33″

Margaret, video, 6’33″, 2006

This video is dedicated to four Margarets: Susanne Margarethe Brandt whose life and death inspired Goethe to create Grethen (second Margaret) in Faust, to Margarita Nicolayeva from Bulhakovs’ The Master and Margaret which characters were inspired by Fausts’ characters and to French Queen Marguerite de Valois, who according to Bulhakovs’ novel was an ancestor of Margarita Nicolayeva.

Crystals (series 2, photos nr 1, 3, 5), 2006

Crystals (series 1, photos nr 1, 3, 4, 5), 2005

Well, from series Vazante, 100 x 70 cm photo, 2005

Trail, from series Vazante, 5 photos 105 x 70 cm each, 2004

Low Tide (1,2,5,8,10) , from series Vazante, photos, 2004

Lagoon, from series Vazante, 6 photos 60 x 40 cm each, 2004

Flashback – video excerpt 0’31″ of 2’20

Flashback, video, 2’20″, 2004

Rain In Paris – video excerpt 1’31″ of 10’52″

Rain In Paris, found footage video, 10’52″,2004  collaboration with Michał Januszaniec   footage of 14 feature films

Rain in Paris is a found footage video consisting of short excerpts from various feature movies that take place in Paris. The project is a game with the stereotype of Paris – a city of love, emotions and sentimentality. The video becomes a short trip through intensive emotions that eventually turn violent.

TV Room, video-installation, Mały Salon National Gallery of Art Zachęta, 2004

Book, 12 pairs of photos, 60 x 40 cm each, 2004

Stained-glass, paint for glass, Friedenskirche, Frankfurt Oder, 2004

Arachne, video-installation, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2003

arachne video excerpt

untitled, acrylic on plaster, Galeria Szara, 2003

Road, 9 photos 65 x 40 cm each, 2003

Life Is Beautiful, 25 photos 30 x 20 cm each, 2002

Algorithm, 12 photos 16,5 x 16,5 cm each, 2002

untitled, mixed media, Galeria Biała, Lublin, 2002

untitled, mixed media, Center of Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, 2002

untitled, mixed media, BWA Zielona Góra, 2001

untitled 1, untitled 3, untitled 5, untitled 6, untitled 8 (from series 1 – 12), acrylic on canvas, 300 x 190 cm, 2001