Art Brut Film Festival/“ Halina”

We invite you to continue learning about the artists and stories that inspired the creation of the exhibition “Flowers of Other Worlds”. Before us are screenings of films and meetings with specialists who will bring us closer to the work of artists associated with the spiritualist movement, as well as others who seek inspiration in the spiritual world.

“Halina”, directed by Dariusz Tokarczyk, Poland, 24'

The film by Dariusz Tokarczyk presents the figure of Halina Babło — a painting by an artist from the circle of outsider art, associated with the Outsider Art Research Station in Krakow. The film presents an extraordinary process of creation, which results in works combining the space of art, spirituality and mediumistic experience.

Guest: Prof. Grażyna Borowik — intermediate artist, poet, lecturer at the Faculty of Art at the KEN Pedagogical University in Krakow. President of the Association of Psychiatry and Art, head of the research station Outsider Art. Author of studies on contemporary art, naivneand art brut.

Conducted by: Sonia Wilk - co-curator of the exhibition “Flowers of Other Worlds”, head of the Department of Non-Professional Art at the Silesian Museum.