Bunker Talk #113: Agnieszka Piotrowska

Agnieszka Piotrowska, PhD, is an award winning BBC-trained filmmaker and theorist. She is Reader in Film at SODA, Manchester School of Art, and Visiting Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Gdansk, Poland. She is Former Head of the School for Film, Media and the performing Arts at the University for the Creative Arts. She was the Director of the global network ‘s conference Visible Evidence in the summer of 2022 in Gdansk. She has been invited to show her work and give keynotes around the world including Bristol, Cambridge, Durban, New York, LA, Stockholm and Krakow. She is best known for her iconic acclaimed documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower but more recently she has been making creating work in Zimbabwe including experimental fiction, hybrid documentary and video essays. Her recent Strategic England 2021 Research Grant resulted in a hybrid film and an article in the International Journal of Creative Media Research.

Piotrowska has written extensively on psychoanalysis and cinema and is the author of Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2014, Routledge), which is going into revised Second Edition in 2023, Black and White: cinema, politics and the arts in Zimbabwe (2017) and The Nasty Woman and neo femme fatale in contemporary cinema (2019). She has edited Femininity and Psychoanalysis (2019) and Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness (2021).

This event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue.

Originally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists, writers, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020, over 110 talks have been hosted by members of the Art & Performance Research Hub. All talks are recorded, edited, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue, capturing how artists, makers and curators think about the world today.

Recording will be shared here after the event: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/talk-113/

Host or Publisher Research in Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met