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Travel no End (2004-2020)


I’m fascinated with human existence – the moral choices we make, our mentality and psychology, and on the other hand, the extraordinary bestiality, brutality and low levels of awareness. Life has always fascinated me – it’s intensity, a liberation from the everyday reality frameworks in which people impose upon themselves slavery based standards. Breathing full

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Monika K. Adler interviewed by Yitzi Weiner


Filmmaker Monika K Adler: “We can create a more valuable life if we work to expand our consciousness”, Yitzi Weiner,  Thrive Global, New York, July 7, 2019 Read here… Rising stars in popular culture: Filmmaker Monika K Adler: “We can create a more valuable life if we work to expand our consciousness”, Yitzi Weiner, Authority

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Monika K. Adler: Selected Film Posters.


“Cutting across boundaries between consciousness and unconsciousness, or of time, race or culture, Monika K. Adler’s work exhibits and offers engagement: embracing anxieties, neurosis or delusions, which themselves can be full of all hidden secrets and/or memories (as in trauma related experiences and memories) of actual history (e.g. in terms of bodily and emotional abuse)

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Fabulous 2017


Travel. Research. Love in London. Writing. Sick Bacchus: development & pre-production. Location Scouting. Production Design. Film Directing study. Cocaine in the Tiramisu. Photography. Collectors. Christie’s. 2018 Shows – Preparation. Sex, Money & Dogs. Luxury items & Soap Operas. Maldives of Consciousness.  Alejandro and Psychomagic.  Biarritz.  Cosmos. Abracadabra. Amen.    

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Tatarak (2009)


Miłość i Śmierć… Eros i Tanatos… Przemijanie i Umieranie… Życie… Teraz – Zaraz – i Potem. Napisać w kilku słowach o Wielkich Sprawach bez patosu czy ‘melancholii banału’ to rzecz wykonalna, lecz rzadka. Nie piszę więc NIC! (…) Film i kreacja Krystyny Jandy nie do Zapomnienia. *In small-town Poland in the late 1950s, an ageing

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The Seventh Continent – Michael Haneke film review


Siódmy kontynent (1989)*, debiut kinowy Michaela Haneke, inspirowany prawdziwymi wydarzeniami z życia austryjackiej rodziny klasy średniej, która popełnia samobójstwo z ‘przejedzenia’, jest wciąż tak aktualny, że wybitnie gwałci spokój codziennej konsumpcji. Cytujac JJ Ballarda – nasze życie zbudowane jest na olbrzymiej liczbie iluzji, problem pojawia się, gdy zapominamy, że to iluzje i nagle zderzamy się

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Monika K. Adler – Purification (2013)


THE AMBIVALENT BODY: ON THE SHORT FILMS OF MONIKA K. ADLER By Robert Smart Paraphilia Magazine, January 2014 Adler’s next film, Purification, is short, just under five-minutes long. The description provided for the film states: Affliction, purify, virtue – Seville, December 2008. Cardinale Alessandro Zacchia II decided to purify a young Polish nun to free

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Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016)


Andrzej Wajda w swoich filmach opowiadał z rozmachem o pięknie i sile życia. Płodny, Silny, Zdecydowany, Charyzmatyczny, Gigantyczna Męska Energia z Wytryskami Élan vital. Najbardziej cenię Wajdę za filmy z lat siedemdziesiątych: The Birch Wood (Brzezina, 1970), Landscape After the Battle (Krajobraz po bitwie, 1970), The Wedding (Wesele, 1973) The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana, 1974),

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Mutability (2013)


Paraphilia Magazine – from THE AMBIVALENT BODY: ON THE SHORT FILMS OF MONIKA K. ADLER By Robert Smart In Mutability, Adler’s most recent film features Adler as an alluring corpse laid out on an autopsy table while her obsessed former analyst carries out an illicit autopsy on her, attempting desperately to nail down the essence

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