On the occasion of Constellations, Wschód, Petrine and Brunette Coleman collectively curated a screening of three short films including new works by Kamil Dossar, Lenard Giller and Jacky Connolly in The Black Box Warsaw. The video program accompanies the exhibition in the gallery space but is to be considered as a separate presentation from the participating galleries.

Kamil Dossar
Delight, 2024
video HD (6:33 min)

Lenard Giller
systems/structures, 2024
digital video transferred from 16mm film, colour,
silent, 107.8 ft. (2:38 min)

Jacky Connolly
Dark Green, Childhood/Old Internet, 2025
video, colour, sound (6:30 min)

Kamil Dossar (b. 1988, Cracow, Poland) is a Danish artist of Iraqi-Hungarian roots, living and working in Copenhagen. Dossar’s practice delves into the intersection of identity, visual semiotics, art history, and politics. He investigates our relationship to the image in contemporary society, through renegotiating the status of the image itself and rearranging it into new modes of associations. Delight (2024) is his most recent video work which concerns Tidius, the CGI protagonist from Final Fantasy X. In the video, an ‘in-game refugee assumes the role of an inquisitor. Equipped with a violin he enters the arena of meticulously curated interior-design homes to perform a disjointed spectacle that seems to provoke a fire.’ The work looks at how the dialectics of permanence and emptiness are navigated in seemingly pristine locations.

Lenard Giller (b. 1997, Munich, Germany) looks at the relationship between reality and its translation and representation through time-based technologies. Spanning film, sound, sculptural elements and installation, Giller’s practice unpacks the material, structural and underlying emotional components that condition perception. systems/structures (2024), a silent 16mm film, portrays a musical instrument captured from various distances and angles. The film is composed of two interdependent structural elements: the length of each shot and the camera’s proximity to the subject. By combining spatial and durational measurements, the camera captures an image while materialising its own distance to the subject, exploring how the units of measurement which frame our relationship to the material
world provide structure for how subjects are portrayed and viewed.

Jacky Connolly (b. 1990, Lower Hudson Valley, USA) is an artist and filmmaker based in New York. Connolly’s film works are indebted to cinematic and literary genre influences, as well as an innovative use of machinima technique for imaginative world-making and storytelling. Dark Green Childhood / Old Internet (2025) is a short film from an animated photograph from a 1990s ‚I Spy’ book – a particularly evocative totem of that era. For Jacky’s work it becomes a portal to this subnatural world of images. A fibrous dark green permeates the video, like phosphenes or closed-eye visions, a connective tissue between disparate images.