Marysia lewandowska biography of martin
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Dismantling the Faculty of Law
2021
4K video with sound
Polish with English subtitles
19 min 29 sec
Courtesy Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
The film reflects on the tool of law and how it shapes our lives, however unequally.
Set as a close observation of the Faculty of Law in Poznań, where Lewandowska’s great grandfather taught for many years, the work explores his legacy and its moral foundations through a poetically scripted voice.
Marysia lewandowska biography of martin
While looking for an absent legislator, the female protagonist comes across material traces of the legal apparatus, as she navigates the physical coordinates of a “soulless” law with no one available to take responsibility or be held accountable.
Questions and reflections on how the legal code is used to make certain events appear and disappear reverberate through the empty hallways, implicating the misuse of law as a source of violence. The search for tenderness signals the work’s commitment to a wider debate on the role of just