Image by Velar Grant
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 forms to explore memory as something embodied, relational, and constantly shifting.
I am interested in what lingers beyond language — gestures, sensations, and traces carried in the body. Through improvisation and collaborative processes, I create spaces where these experiences can emerge and be shared. My work explores memory, ancestry, and womanhood as sites of tension and transformation, shaped by inheritance and resistance.
Informed by my therapeutic training, I approach the body as a threshold where experience is both held and reconfigured. My films become spaces of encounter, where intimacy offers a quiet form of reflection, endurance, 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.