Joya: AiR / Anna Bajorek / POL
photo Simon Beckmann
Joya: AiR / Anna Bajorek / POL
“Joya: AiR felt to me like opening a window. I walked a lot. I watched things move - plants, light, my own attention. The work became less heavy, less controlled, but also sharper. It was more like following something than building it. It became more visual and more attentive. At first the landscape felt almost like a desert. But after a while it opened up - blooming, alive, full of resilience and strength. My time at Joya was incredibly fruitful. I came with something that needed to be transformed and it did transform in a very unusual and exciting way. Joya gave me the space and focus to rewrite two film projects I had been working on, and especially to rethink one of them through its relationship to the land and surrounding landscape.
The place created by Donna and Simon is very special. There were conversations, shared meals, laughs, sunset watching, encounters that stayed. I feel grateful for this exchange, and the conditions that allowed something to open and move again.
The project was carried out as part of the ReSide programme of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. I am deeply grateful for their support.”.
Anna Bajorek
Ania Bajorek is a screenwriter director and visual artist based in Warsaw (Poland). Her work travels across still, moving image and text. Growing up in the mountains of south of Poland, she witnessed strong presence of nature in life of the family - an influence that continues to shape her artistic language.
Her stories evolve around intimacy and search for connection as a way of domesticating reality. Her process is intuitive, blending fragments of the everyday. She holds: MA in New Media Art at Academy of Fine Arts (Warsaw), BA in Photography at Institute of Creative Photography (Opava Chech Republic), MA in Philosophy at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Recently, she has focused on film as her primary medium, completing programs at Wajda School and the Screenwriting Atelier. She is currently working on film projects as a screenwriter director.
