Such Feeling: an encounter with Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Sunday 21 Sep 2025 from 5pm to 6:30pm
Free on booking
Talk and film in english
Parisian premiere of Such Feeling, a feature film by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, followed by an exchange with the artist.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s first feature-length film, Such Feeling, originated as a prologue to his choreographic exhibition of the same title at Kunsthalle Basel in 2019. The film was expanded and re-edited with each new exhibition presentation, as a processual cine-performance, eventually transforming and premiering as a feature film in 2024.
Such Feeling is a poetic and political documentary that follows a group of friends, Aaa, Billy, Dawid, Filipka, and Olo, in Warsaw who perform, protest and support each other amidst social transformation in a hostile state. This is a poetic account of everyday queer life, friendship, intimacy, and resistance in Poland in the years 2019–2024.
“The most important contemporary documentary on queer Warsaw. An honest portrait of a group of friends, which became a generational manifesto.” – WatchDocs Film Festival, 2024
Credits
Directed by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins
Produced by Ivo Krankowski
Written by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins and Krzysztof Bagiński
Cinematography by Krzysztof Bagiński
Editing by Agata Cierniak, Albert Bana
Music by Jasia Rabiej
Starring Aaa Biczysko, Filipka Rutkowska, Billy Morgan, Dawid Nickel, Olo Rusinek
Graphic design by Carlo Canún and Rosen Eveleigh
Production company LaCamera Independent
Co-produced by Canal+ Poland, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission
With the support of Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Media partner: Vogue Polska
His artistic practice investigates the structures and politics of desire through gestures, collectivity, touch, and sensuality. He uses choreography to reflect on feelings, perceptions, and collective emergence, exploring alternative experiences of memory, time, and change.
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins has presented work amongst others at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2022); Festival Sâlmon x MACBA, Barcelona (2023) Kölnischer Kunstverein (2022); Ludwig Forum Aachen (2022 and 2024 with schritt macher); Kiasma, Helsinki (2022); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2022). His solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2019); Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw (2018); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2017). His work has also been presented at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017); Swiss Institute, New York (2016); Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (2016); and Liste Art Fair, Basel (2014). Baczyński-Jenkins’ debut feature film, Such Feeling, premiered at the Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2024).
He was the recipient of the Frieze Arist Award and the Arts Foundation Award in 2018. He was nominated for the Future Generation Art Award in 2021.