Susann Carmen Jagodzińska
is a polish-german photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Paris, France.
She works in the field of art as a form of self integration and self discovery.
She is looking at inner places where separations has occurred and where belief systems might impose their role over intuition.
She tries to make the constructed selves and their belief systems visible by providing and understanding how
a « self reflective » space thought art can be created.
« When feeling into a silent space for witnessing the origin, where pain has occurred, we become more self conscious and able to heal those fragmented parts into wholeness. So that memory and remembrance of the intuitive self can emerge and be experienced. »
Through her art she tries to give to the observers, the ones that actively observe the artwork and themself, space to
« hear and feel» their own thoughts and emotions by sharing her own experience.
After studying ethnology, philosophy and film in Germany, Japan and France, she wrote her master work
titled Organic Cinema, recognizing the artificial, confronting the past. A subject that she continues to explore.
She also turned herself towards photography while continuing her filmic experiences.
In 2019, she shot Brzeg (Shore) a short movie mixing black and white and color, telling the story of two
children lost in a suspended world, between memory and reality, life and death. She then directed other short
movies and music videos using super8 film and also her Krasnogorsk III 16mm camera, developing her
technic and expression. Simultaneously continuing her photographies,
she created her first book Echo of Photons, a photo text book published in 2022 by Céedition.
Echo of Photons is an intuitive and intimate work, including photos taken in Poland and France, like a journey through memories toward the sea, and a prose composition telling the journey of a young girl trying to find sense in the chaos of amnesia and trauma, impression and feeling.
This publishing led to signings at Le Ball 2022, Arles Book Fair 2023, Polycopies 2023, etc…
In 2024 an exhibition at the Gallery Iris Arles showcased the book’s photographies and text.
Also in 2024, she united photography, film and poetry in a collaboration with Euchronia,
a Japanese fashion creator and artist, leading to the Réminiscence photographic series as well
as the poetry film Prayer to the ocean.
She is currently finishing the postproduction of a short film in 16mm called My Bright Blue Heart and
she is working on her second book, Songs of the sun and the sea.
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Philosophy & Ethnology at University Bremen, Germany (B.A)
with an exchange at the 愛知大学 -Aichi Daigaku, Nagoya, Japan
Film, Esthetic & Creation at the Sorbonne Pantheon University Paris 1, France (M.A)
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“ORGANIC CINEMA: RECOGNIZING THE ARTIFICIEL, CONFRONTING THE PAST”
This work aims to show how Organic Cinema, a cinema that would like to get closer to nature, to make space for real time, through, for example, long takes, stands out in its relationship between the author, the work and the observer. It intends to show that the cinema and its codes can have effects which encourage the reproduction of artificial constructions. Which can be manipulated and manipulative as in the case of propaganda. It is particularly focused on Eastern Europe. It studyies the filmic processes used and invented under communism, compares the Organic Cinema to them and looks at the responses of two films in particular: Sátántangó by Béla Tarr and Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. It tries to see how these films encourage presence and recognition of the artificial (denial, belief systems, etc.). The recognition of these artificial constructions and the spatio-temporal re-expérience offered by their cinema leave room for the observer to be able to confront his past, find a voice to talk about his wounds, and begin, perhaps, a journey towards healing.
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Polish, German, English, French, Japanese
Photography Film
Official Selection Film-Poem “Prayer to the Ocean”
12th International Video Poetry Festival in Athen, Greece
11-12 April 2025
” Poesia Sin Fin “
Cinéma le Balzac, 26 .04 at 20h
,as a part of a prescreening before
the autobiographic film ” Poesia Sin Fin “
of Alejandro Jodorowsky will be presented.
Book signing:
E C H O of P H O T O N S
Polycopies 2023
Bateau Concorde-Atlantique et Berges de Seine
11 th of November 2023
Paris, France
Arles Book Fair 2023
Les Rencontres de la Photographie
at College Saint Charles on the 5 th of July 2023
Arles, France
Rolling Paper #4
23-25/09/2022
Le Ball
Paris, France
Exhibition:
Echo of Photons
The Concept Vol. 1 Cé éditions
Iris Arles
jeudi 28 mars - 5 mai 2024
Arles, France