Vampires, It’s Nothing to Laugh at
트레일러 재생
Kinga MICHALSKA
- Canada
- 2023
- 37min
- 12 +
- DCP
- color/black and white
Asian premiere
Synopsis
According to a renown scholar a vampire woman lived in a small Kashubian village in the middle of rural Canada in the 60s. Kinga Michalska returns to this village still recovering from the trauma of this coverage. Using a blend of archival footage and playful performance the filmmaker in search for 'truth' is confronted with Canada's history of settler colonialism and cycles of othering. The film asks who is the real vampire - the scientist, the audience, the community or the filmmaker?
Review
In 2021, an artist named Kinga Michalska arrives at an old village in Canada. Her goal is to investigate a female vampire who is said to have lived there. Michalska was not the first person to pay attention to this strange rumor. An anthropologist, Jan L. Perkowski, also visited the village around the late 1960s to investigate a middle-aged woman without two front teeth. Michalska found a record about this woman and reorganized it through performance. Vampires, It’s Nothing to Laugh at uses “Vampire” as a metaphor for the identity of immigrants to describe how their identity changes and how fantasy is made behind the mask of truth.
Director
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Kinga MICHALSKA
Kinga Michalska is a Polish queer visual artist and filmmaker based between Montreal and Warsaw. They hold a BA in Cultural Studies and an MFA in Photography. They are interested in shared cultural spaces such as home, land, memory, kinship and hauntings through a feminist sensibility. Their work has been presented in prestigious exhibitions and festivals in Poland, Canada, UK, Italy and Switzerland.