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Zygmunt Rytka made more than a dozen films and video works. Most pieces of this kind were extensions of his photographic projects. This site currently includes one of Rytka’s film works, Retransmission, produced in 1979–1983. The film was made by time-lapse recording of images directly from the television screen. In places, the artist also added is own commentary on the surface of the screen or made additional modifications to the picture. The ...

Zygmunt Rytka made more than a dozen films and video works. Most pieces of this kind were extensions of his photographic projects. This site currently includes one of Rytka’s film works, Retransmission, produced in 1979–1983. The film was made by time-lapse recording of images directly from the television screen. In places, the artist also added is own commentary on the surface of the screen or made additional modifications to the picture. The result is a moving record of the language of the communist mass media in Poland from a time encompassing the emergence of the Solidarity movement and the announcement of martial law.

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