From My Window

Synopsis

"I have been working on this film since 1978, when I started living in a flat situated in the so-called Manhattan centre of Lodź. From time to time I would "look out" of my kitchen window with a film or video camera onto a huge square which became the hero of my "notebook". I kept filming all the changes and carious social and political events taking place in this square. Today twenty years have passed since I shot the first frames of that film. The time accumulated in the film became the protagonist of my venture. In 1998 the City Authorities decided to build a foreign hotel in our beautiful square. Its construction is currently under way. Now the view from my window encompasses only a fragment of the hotel wall. In 1999 I decided to end those film chronicles [...]" – Józef Robakowski