GLASS LIPS

writer / director / producer / cinematographer Lech Majewski cast Patryk Czajka Grzegorz Przybył Joanna Litwin Ryszarda Celińska Leonard Brzoza Werner Widera Dorota Lis Michalina Rutkowska Tadeusz Pławecki Marian Makula Anna Wesołowska music Lech Majewski & Józef Skrzek production designer Joanna Macha costumes Dorota Lis editors Eliot Ems, Norbert Rudzik sound Lech Majewski, Zbigniew Malecki

Festivals: Locarno, Valencia, Göteborg, Istanbul, Seattle, Tokio. Playing at: Berkeley Art Museum; Wexner Center for the Arts, Cleveland; Portland Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver; UCLA Film Archive, Los Angeles; University of Colorado, International Film Series, Boulder; Image Forum, Kyoto; Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya; Yokohama Museum of Art; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo. The film began its life as an installation of interrelated video art features, entitled Blood of a Poet that opened Lech Majewski retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on May 3, 2006. Rejecting dialogue and chronology it marked an innovative approach to the traditional narration: simultaneous flow of images, events, and visual associations created a cross-section of a human consciousness. Based on this cycle, Lech Majewski assembled a full lengths feature, Glass Lips, telling the story of a young poet at odds with himself and with the world. After the death of his mother - although the possibility of "after" is always, in Glass Lips, relative - the young poet finds himself shut away in a psychiatric ward. From his isolation he sees his mother, his violent father and his father's lovers. Through this process of remembering, the visions overlap and communicate with one another, continually asking the viewer to develop a new method of interpretation.