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Embodied by Land by Aleksandra Borys (PL), 2017

film made during LABverde Art Immersion Program 2017 in The Amazon/ Brazil
made with Canon Super8 Camera and Kodak Super8 Film
Filmed and edited by Aleksandra Borys

with financial support from Adam Mickiewicz Institute

[ENG]

The film was made during LABVERDE art+nature+science Residency ‒ Arts Immersion Program in the Amazon/ Brazil. It wishes to represent the sensation of rainforest and how it affects the human body. For ten days Aleks was exposed to the power and greatness of Amazon jungle. She says,  ‘The experience was overwhelming for my European mind, that could not follow what my body had already understood and begun working with. It took a couple of days until my mind could cope with the physical experience of the senses opening to their fullness, the feeling of the body expanding, losing its boundaries, blurring with the environment. By welcoming and accepting the overwhelming unknown, I started to learn from the environment through
the physicality of my body’.  

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Der Film wurde während des LABVERDE art+nature+science Residency – Immersion Programs im Amazonas/ Brasilien gedreht. Er möchte die Sensation des Regenwaldes darstellen und wie er den menschlichen Körper beeinflusst. Zehn Tage lang war Aleks der Kraft und Größe des Amazonas-Dschungels ausgesetzt. Sie sagt: „Die Erfahrung war überwältigend für meinen europäischen Verstand, der dem nicht folgen konnte, was mein Körper bereits verstanden und zu verarbeiten begonnen hatte. Es dauerte ein paar Tage, bis mein Verstand mit der körperlichen Erfahrung zurechtkam, dass sich die Sinne in ihrer ganzen Fülle öffnen, das Gefühl, dass sich der Körper ausdehnt, seine Grenzen verliert und mit der Umgebung verschwimmt. Indem ich das überwältigende Unbekannte willkommen hieß und akzeptierte, begann ich, durch die Körperlichkeit meines Körpers von der Umwelt zu lernen.
Gefilmt mit einer Canon Super8 Kamera mit 16mm Kodak Super8 Film.

Aleksandra Borys is an art and science artist working in fields of choreography, cosmology and ecology. Her work looks at the human body,  Earth, Universe and asks what kind of choreography and dance happens between them.  
What can the body learn from the Land and Night Sky? How the relation of Human to Universe influences the way the Earth is treated, and what are the consequences of this? With a fascination into space travel, her work admires the beauty of planet Earth. Interested in looking at Earth from a distance, and how this perspective influences the way life on our planet is approached. The work wishes to challenge the ways human physical existence is viewed. 
Aleksandra received in 2016 a Master of Art and Science from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts in London; in 2009 a BA in Contemporary Dance from CODARTS, University of the Arts in Rotterdam; in 2003 she graduated from National Ballet School in Lodz. She received The Research Scholarship by Grazyna Kulczyk and art research scholarship from Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

www.aleksborys.com