I don’t understand when people my age say ‘during my times’... what dothey mean, my times? I’m sitting here, talking to you, I am alive, these aremy times!’ - Ms. Basia Tukendorf‘Life is not boring, you are’ is a documentary film short that follows WikaWojcikiewiscz on a four month long journey across Poland working on acollaboration with four elderly polish women who appeared in the musicMaria Peszek’s music video ’Ave Maria' (2021).
Inspired by depictions ofsexual liberation by the actors, Wojcikiewicz was interested in meetingthe women, learning their stories, earing their wisdoms and finally coproducinga series of images that allowed them to challenge conservativePolish legislation, public nudity and the policing of mature women’s bodiesmotivated glamour publishing. Filmed by Wojcikiewiscz, the shortcaptures the spirit of kitchen table talks, laughter, inter- generationalconversations that lead to artist’s final photographic work. Poland 2023
