Karolina, 2002, 8min
U šetnji / Out for a Walk, 2001, 9min
Rendez-vous, 2004, 8min
Sat pjevanja 1 / Singing Lesson 1, 2001, 14min
Sat pjevanja 2 / Singing Lesson 2, 2003, 16:30min
In his films, Żmijewski is at the same time in the position of an observer, documenting people and situations, but also the immediate catalyst of those situations, a shaman-like artist who, ignoring the rules of political correctness and social norms, achieves such radical interventions in the space between himself and his protagonists, as, for example, in 80064 (2004), where he manages to convince a former Auschwitz prisoner to allow his faded tattoo with the prisoner number be renewed. In many of his works, Żmijewski deals obsessively with the issues of the human body, subject to disease and decay, and the relations of physicality and the sphere of mind and spirituality. He is also involved in exploring taboos, the hypocritical relation of society towards disabled individuals, the sensitive borders between himself as artist, and his protagonists, i.e. subjects, where his role constantnly varies between its emancipatory and exploitative potentials.
