Image by Jennifer Richard
Education
*MAEd Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Seattle University, Seattle, WA (2026)
* Certificate in the Foundations of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London (2023)
* MFA Experimental Film, Kingston University, London (2016)
* PhD Film Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London (2013)
* MA Film Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London (2009)
* BA (Hons) Visual Theories, University of East London (2007)
* BA Art History, University of Wroclaw (Poland) and The Open University London (2006)
Artist Bio
I am a Polish-born filmmaker based between London and Seattle. My work brings together performance, movement, and hybrid nonfiction. Working through improvisation and collaboration, I create films that attend to what exceeds language: gesture, sensation, and the body's capacity to carry experience across generations. My practice examines memory, ancestry, and womanhood as sites of inheritance, resistance, and transformation.
Informed by my therapeutic training, I approach the body as both archive and threshold - a place where experience is held, negotiated, and reimagined. My films invite intimate encounters in which vulnerability becomes a means of reflection, connection, and repair.
My recent short, I Was There (2025), won Best Experimental Film at the New Jersey International Film Festival (June 2025), the Best Immigrant Story Ledo Matteoli Award at the 59th Humboldt International Film Festival (May 2026) and Curator Award at Kinoskop (June 2026). Her Plot of Blue Sky (2023) premiered at the 27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and received the 2024 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Practice Research Award and the Jean Rouch Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival (2024). My films have been shown in over 20 countries and includes screenings at Slamdance, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Videoex, BFI London Film Festival, ICA London, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hawai’i International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, among many others.