Kozyra

film in art

film in art

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In Art, Dreams Come True
Film, 2006

This quasi-documentary film tells the story of the project titled "In Art, Dreams Come True." It follows Katarzyna Kozyra from her fascination with Gloria Viagra, through her first singing lessons with the Maestro and her lessons in "femininity" with Gloria, to her stage appearances in clubs, theatres and finally in the castration scene on the stage of the San Vitale Theatre in Bologna. Staged scenes form the film's narrative structure and are inter-cut with documentary interviews with the artist's collaborators, who participated in different stages of the project and took on various roles. They range from the Maestro and Gloria ("without them it would have been as if without sound and picture" - as the artist states in the project catalogue), through curators, to stage and technical crewmembers. Kozyra summarizes the entire film in a cocky statement she makes directly into the camera: "Anyone can dance, sing and act. And from my omnipotence comes a certainty that I will succeed at whatever I choose to focus on, because I'm potentially talented in every area."