Indyk Family Archive

collection Indyk Family Archive
authors Agnieszka Indyk
length 02'06
country Poland
locations Warsaw, Poland 
year 1980-1990
format S8 mm
color black and white
signature PAFD 0053 002
description

The materials from the Indyk family archive come from the 1980s. Their author began her filmmaking adventure at the age of 17. She shot her first films with a Soviet-made LOMO camera bought at a photo store on Bracka Street in Warsaw, and developed them at a photo lab near Constitution Square. She sometimes turned her filming attempts into social activities, engaging friends as actors. She used a RUS projector to screen the films.

The film was made around 1980 in an apartment in Żoliborz. 

A group of the author’s friends – two young women both named Agnieszka, Piotrek, and Józio – are performing in a short, melodramatic film etude. In the first scene, the camera observes a young man in bed reading a newspaper. A young woman, presumably a maid, enters the room and brings him tea. In subsequent scenes, a romance develops between the two characters – the man surprises the maid with a kiss. Further, the camera observes the lovers in the bedroom. At one point, the man interrupts the kissing and hands the woman a small object resembling a ring box. Suddenly, another couple enters the room – a woman wearing a hat and a man in a scarf. Upon seeing the two characters in bed, they turn around and leave hastily. In the next scene, the man brings the same small object, which he had previously given to his lover, to the woman in the hat. The film presents two different reactions, as if two alternative endings – in one, the woman accepts the gift, in the other, she angrily slaps the man’s face. In the final scene, the maid sadly looks at the crumpled bedding.

(WO)

keywords film etude  friends  melodrama  romance  lovers  ring 
source of funding Polish Film Institute