Single-minute communities: assembling collective agency with Paweł Kwiek
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2023

This article analyses three multi-author films by Polish artist Paweł Kwiek. To make these films, Kwiek applied the same collaborative formula in different social contexts, producing three sets of ‘1-minute films.’ The first film, Niechcice (1973), consists of sketches co-produced with rural youth. The later films were made at art festivals in 1973–4. This article treats these projects as a triptych: three parts of one whole. Taken together, they move from an experiment in cross-class collaborat