Aleksandra Muszyńska

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In creating such a world I was inspired by the films Where the Wild Things Art (2009) and Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), and the documentary The Children of Leningradsky (2005). They share a common denominator: children. Or rather: children vs. the world. Difficult and ostensibly unattractive conditions combine with a backdrop of the elements and nature to produce very interesting visuals and moving narratives.

I have always been inspired by and attracted to the aesthetics of Fellini’s films, with their dream-like, baroque style. His visual approach to a frame, play of light, diffused shades of colour. Reflecting on my adaptation of King Matt, I had seen the world depicted in a Felliniesque spirit, and this determined the nature of the set design, which was addressed primarily to a mature, rather than very young audience. A film about a child does not have to be childish. What I really wanted to achieve was to express the perception of a child, children’s associations, sense of time, childlike logic.

Aleksandra Muszyńska

B. 1990, studied at the Faculty of Media Art and Stage Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, major in stage design (2009–2013). She works on stage, set and costume design, illustration, painting and printmaking. Author of set design (interiors) for music video Totally enormous extinct dinosaurs, Film Fiction Production House, Warsaw 2012; stage design for Anna Baumgart’s theatre project, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2012, and commercials. Stage design and costumes for theatre productions: Argument About Basia, Rampa Theatre, Warsaw, Triumph, Imka Theatre, Warsaw, 2013. Assistant to the set designer of TV series Wataha, HBO 2013.