Aaa, Billy, Dawid, Filipka, and Olo perform, support each other, and protest, facing a hostile environment for queer people in Poland. In his first feature-length film, artist and choreographer Alex Baczyński-Jenkins accompanied this group of friends for a few years. Performances, protests, ordinary and ephemeral moments mix with conversations about happiness, sex, and dreams. The director sometimes documents, sometimes co-creates situations from within, that are intimate, playful, rebellious, and erotic. Such Feeling is a diary of everyday life. It includes the first time acting on a theater stage, as a performer in a porn film, and using new pronouns. In one scene, a praying mantis unexpectedly falls on Filipka's head while she is standing in a garden. This unexpected encounter evolves into a dance. Such Feeling is a film about queer life; a portrait of friends and a documentary about transformation, intimacy, and performance.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is a choreographer and artist who explores themes of queer feelings, embodiment and relationality. His artistic practice investigates the structures and politics of desire through gesture, collectivity, touch, and sensuality.His works have been presented at amongst others: Venice Biennale, MACBA, Kunsthalle Basel, Foksal Gallery Foundation, MSN Warsaw, Chisenhale Gallery. Co-founder of the queer feminist collective Kem in Warsaw.
2024 To uczucie / Such Feeling