A Heart of Love

This is the story of a very symbiotic relationship, an obsessive bond. Based on a great physical, spiritual, and artistic affinity, says the director, Łukasz Ronduda. His second film (Performer, 15th New Horizons) portrays one of the most original couples in Poland's art scene: Wojtek Bąkowski (his films were screened as part of the Third Eye section in 2014) and Zuzanna Bartoszek, a young poet and artist. Androgynous, slim, hairless, often dressed in identical unisex outfits, Bąkowski and Bartoszek look like male and female versions of the same person. And the state of their love is like a perverse version of narcissism, since looking at their lover is like looking at their own reflection. In their relationship, love is intertwined with art, one is a reflection of the other. Intimate confessions and gestures are lent an artistic form, and vice versa-art is their way of experiencing emotional life. Are they enthralled with each other or more with their own artistic personas? Is their relationship based on feelings or on performing emotional states? An artistic utopia, where the boundary between performance and life, between the creation of an image and the truth of emotions is completely obliterated.