Wojciech Dada, Katarzyna Górna and Rafał Jakubowicz: Cleansing

By Wojciech Dada, Katarzyna Górna and Rafał Jakubowicz, Cleansing refers to the 2001 American production entitled “Conspiracy” (distributed in Poland with the Polish title reading: Ostateczne rozwiązanie, literally "final solution”). The American film is based on archival protocols documenting a conference held in Wannsee on January 20, 1942, where a group of Nazi dignitaries gathered to “resolve the Jewish question". During the conference, the Nazis make the tragic decision to mass-exterminate Jews with the use of gas chambers. The film refers to the aesthetics and drama of the original, but takes on an entirely different issue: the legitimacy of human existence as a species in the eyes of animals. As part of the narrative, animals plot to take revenge on their enemies.
Selected for the Artists' Film International programme by the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.