MNEMOSYNE [2007]

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December 19, 2007

MNEMOSYNE:
music by ARTUR ZAGAEWSKI
video by MICHAL BRZEZINSKI

"Mnemosyne". This film is not typical for Michał Brzeziński's artistic works. Painterly, plastic, it moves in the circle of veiled signs and ambiguous symbols. The image is elusive, avoids easy interpretation. The title recalls the mythological goddess of memory, daughter of Uranus and Gaea, mother of the nine Muses.

"Mnemosyne" is an attempt to get to subconsciousness, to memory. The artist puts a question if it is possible to move outside the realm of signs, and if video can get into the sphere of subconsciousness and images generated by it without manipulating what is real, at the same time having an effect on the viewer by the means of pure language of the medium - image and sound. Brzeziński's video is an attempt to render a state experienced in meditation, where a man reaches beyond his individual existence. There are no divisions - spirit, memory, matter blend in one. What makes "Mnemosyne" different from other contemplative works is that this film is not the image of a meditating artist, but the image for meditation. It equally affects the artist and the recipient of art.

Michał Brzeziński is a unique artist on the contemporary video scene. He does not move in the circle of fashionable issues, does not take part in popular discourses. He is a graduate of culture studies at the University of Łódź; thus a theoretician. For him, theory is extremely important. Through the medium of film he engages in a direct dialogue with a viewer and sets to redefine the video language of the digital age.

Metaartistic issues are just one of the many fields of Brzeziński's artistic activity. By the means of electronic media he tries to reconstruct the "I" of the disintegrating subject. Here he does not stop at a fragment, but consistently examines the sources of contemporary identities. He moves from the screen to the body, then to the mind and eye; he searches cultural, religious and social contexts and reaches beyond them. He is concerned with the spirituality of a contemporary man and its position in the cacophony of images.

"Mnemosyne" is an attempt to get into the sphere of pure memory, the domain of the goddess Mnemosyne. The space appears here as a revived memory, animated thanks to the specificity of the used medium.

AGNIESZKA KULAZIŃSKA

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a great thing. awesome

nietzscheluv (1 year ago) Show Hide

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very well put together. there is a nice flow and ambience to this piece and the description to right is well versed. thanks for posting!

londonpenda (1 year ago) Show Hide

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Wonderful work;)

moolox (1 year ago) Show Hide

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Fantastic video and excellent soundtrack. Goes right in my "Experimental" playlist.

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Hi, I really would like to write some paper about your film Mnemosyne. I've just finish my PhD on Aby Warburg, who titled his last project Mnemosyne. COuld we stay in touch ? COuld I have a copy of your video ?
Maud Hagelstein, from Liège (Belgium)

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That is one dreamy ambient track. Is the track titled Mnemosyne as well?

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angelus oculum, see the blod on the hand of Christ.
great art.

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