A Polish emigrant, Martynka, after 15 years of living on Manhattan, has decided to look for a new home on Greenpoint. It is a district which used to remind her of Polish folk and the type of emigrant she did not want to identify herself with before. Now, however, she finds that missing family brings her here. She gets in touch with people who came to New York 20-30 years ago, not ready for what was awaiting them over the ocean. Her neighbor Henryk becomes her friend and helps her out in difficult moments. Helena, an elderly lady living in a nursing house, inspires her to create an artistic project. The protagonist gets to know their determination, stories about loneliness, fear but also about finding one’s place in a foreign land. The film depicts transformations taking place now on Greenpoint, once a typically Polish district, now an international melting pot.

 

OLGA BLUMCZYŃSKA
Director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Graduated from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw. She has directed several short videos for the Emigration Museum in Gdynia, where she serves as Coordinator of the Emigrant Archive. “Past States” is her first film.

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Screenings

GALLERY THEATRE
(1112 N. Milwaukee Ave.)

TUESDAY 11/10/2018  5:00 pm.

2017, 29 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles

Direction/Reżyseria OLGA BLUMCZYŃSKA

Script/Scenariusz
OLGA BLUMCZYŃSKA

Cinematography/Zdjęcia
ANDRZEJ JURASZCZYK,
BARBARA OSTROWSKA,
MARCIN KAPROŃ,
OLGA BLUMCZYŃSKA

Editing/Montaż
PIASEK & WÓJCIK

Sound/Dźwięk
PIOTR PLISZKA

Produced by/Produkcja
THE EMIGRATION MUSEUM IN GDYNIA

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