Gold And Silver video, 14'24'' 2008, Zachęta National Gallery of Art

Gold And Silver

The film Gold and Silver is the record of a trip by the artist's father Andrzej Rajkowski to places which are linked to their family history. The tale is based around the remembering of former fortunes, alternately gained and lost through the passion for gambling shared by the majority of men in the family. The hero visits Plac Konstytucji, where the family home once stood (destroyed during the war) housing also a dentist's and a card den run by an uncle, the Hotel Bristol - a place of recreation in former times, and Żyrardów where his family's possessions were stored. Equipped with a metal-detector and a spade, he searches in the environs of Żyrardów for traces of a case in which the family buried their valuables during the war. In the hero's recollections, in his tales of the tragic-comic events of the past, history, war and changes of political system notwithstanding, appears just as so many unfortunate twists of fate, like losing at cards.

project:
Joanna Rajkowska

camerawork:
Leszek Molski
Rafał Żurek

editing:
Marek Sobolewski
Joanna Rajkowska

music:
Marcin Dymiter

sound:
Justyna Musialska

colour correction:
Leszek Molski

english translation:
Benjamin Cope

production:
Zachęta National Gallery of Art

Special thanks to the hotel Le Meridien Bristol and the shop Militaria.pl in Warsaw for their help in producing this film.

Warszawa 2008

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