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 Seattle and London. My work brings together performance, movement, documentary, and dream-like storytelling. I approach memory not as something fixed, but as something alive - held in the body, shaped by inheritance, and constantly changing. Working across different places and histories, I focus on what lingers: gestures, relationships, and bodily traces that exist beyond words, in feeling and material experience.
I see the body as a place where experiences are both recorded and transformed - where what cannot be spoken still lives. I see memory as not simply retold, but questioned, shifted, and opened up to change. Through experimentation, improvisation, and hybrid nonfiction forms, I create spaces where subtle, often unseen experiences can emerge and be shared.
My work explores how we relate to one another through vulnerability, trust, and attention - moments where something previously hidden begins to take shape. I am particularly interested in memory, ancestry, and womanhood as interconnected and often conflicting spaces, shaped by both inheritance and resistance. These tensions unfold across the body, material conditions, and political realities, revealing identity as something that is always evolving through lived experience and relationships.
My therapeutic training informs this process, deepening my sensitivity to how experiences are felt, witnessed, and transformed. I think of the body as a threshold - a place where memory gathers and shifts. My films become spaces of encounter, where alternative histories can surface and where intimacy offers a quiet form of resistance, endurance, and repair.
My most recent short, I Was There (2025), won Best Experimental Film at the New Jersey International Film Festival. 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. 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.