Jakub Duszyński

A Movie Is a Movie Is a Movie (or Out-takes from a Meeting with a Happy Man)

In 2001, during the first edition of the New Horizons Festival (held in the town of Sanok), we showed five Jonas Mekas films. A few months later, while in New York, I went unannounced to the Anthology Film Archives and met Mekas there. I was 29 years old and carrying a small video camera, which was on all the time, also during our conversation in a nearby café where Mekas liked to go. Twenty years later, I came across that recording on a mini DV cassette and edited it a little, using some fragments from Mekas’ movies. The result was a raw record of the moments that I wanted to remember. Jakub Duszyński

Family Photo

The events of this documentary about family history unfold in modern-day Warsaw, Paris, and Tel Aviv. As a matter of fact, Family Photo is the work created for the museum of the Polish Jews in Warsaw, and its Moscow Jewish Film Festival screening will become its wide screen debut. The film stars the family of its director (also a screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor) Jakub Duszyński — they look at old photographs at people who are long gone but are forever alive in other’s memories.

The Balcony Movie

Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.