Benighted, the video’s title, is a poetic term for the trap set for us by time (“surprised by the night”). It can also be applied to the more general context of being surprised by the inevitable. The work reaches back to the period of childhood with its inherent intimate connection to nature, while also situating it as the time of the establishment of boundaries and the loneliness that is born because of them. It is a portrayal of a struggling human caught up in the webs of time, which brings constant change and, simultaneously, mantra-like repetition.
O artystce
Maria Ornaf, born in 1989, graduate of intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, scholarship holder of the Faculdade de Belas-Artes in Lisbon, winner of an arts and culture scholarship from the local government of the Wielkopolska Region, and an art scholarship from the City of Łódź. Currently, she studies directing at the Film School in Łódź. She regularly collaborates with cinematographer Zuzanna Zachara-Hassairi. Their film Piołun [Wormwood] premiered at the 41st Moscow International Film Festival, and was awarded at the 38th Youth and Film Debut Festival in Koszalin, the 9th Transatlantyk International Film and Music Festival in Łódź, the 3rd Notofest Film Festival in Suwałki, and the 44th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.
