Kamila Chomicz [PL]
 
Kamila Chomicz is a Gdańsk-Based artist. She studied biology at the Gdańsk University and directing in Academy Film and Television in Warsaw. She works with video and photography. She is always on a look out for new topics. In many of her narratives, sometimes fairy tale like short films, she has been focusing on the human presence in urban environments, portraying their relationship, as well as the beauty and magic that is inherent in them. She deliberates over the place that our tradition and roots have in the modern culture. She is inspired by nature, its contradictory and compound structure. The source of inspiration for Kamila is also children's world, sensual, beyond verbal, filled with feelings and imagination. She also makes visuals for music and theatre.

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NARRACJE 2011 Work: Frog Island
 
For NARRACJE she works on Granary Island in the ruins of the former storage buildings. Granary Island links the historic Główne Miasto with the lower city. The island has been built after 1576 when the canal bed for the new Motława was excavated. In the sixteenth century there were up to 300 storages built on the island between the old and the new Motława. During World War II they suffered from heavy damages and until today the only few remaining walls can be visited. Located between the restored Głowne Miasto, the new marina, contemporary residential buildings and Dolne Miasto, its sights offer a synopsis of Gdańsk’s past and present.
 
For NARRACJE, in her film Kamila Chomicz refers to Granary Island as an urban habitat which has been inhabited by frogs. From her concept: "My film contains a number of interviews about the island, the city, part the nature plays in the city, people's impression of a frog behavior and the sounds they make. I wanted to add a narration, that would bring the nature, animals that live in the city to people's attention. I wanted to ask a question that I can't find an answer to in the land management plans given by the city: Is there a chance that the island that was a home to the warehouses and now is a home to frogs, could social landscape keep its spatial function? What do inhabitants think about it? Do they listen to the voice of nature? Do they think parks are needed?".

Location: ul. Motławska, Wyspa Spichrzów