monika k. adler

Biography, Film, News

The Body as Image


What happens when the maker becomes the medium? When the gaze turns inward and the body begins to carry the narrative once held by the lens. For years, my work has lived behind the camera—framing stories, shaping light, and constructing visual narratives as a photographer and filmmaker. Through this process, I developed a deep sensitivity

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From Experimental Roots to the Big Screen: My Journey into Narrative Arthouse Cinema


From experimental video art to narrative arthouse cinema, my upcoming features Sick Bacchus and The First Hour after Violent Death explore the boundaries of storytelling, emotion, and visual poetry. As a filmmaker, my journey began in the intimate and exploratory realm of video art and experimental cinema. These early works allowed me to play with

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Articles, Biography, Film, Film Reviews

Avant-Garde Narratives: A Decade of Experimental Film


Through An Ongoing Exploration of Identity and Impermanence Across the past decade, my work in avant-garde cinema and video art has traced a continuous thread through memory, identity, and transformation. These short films are not bound by traditional narrative structures; instead, they emerge as fragments—emotional, philosophical, and deeply personal—inviting the viewer into shifting inner landscapes.

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The PhotoWalk Podcast Episode #525 


The PhotoWalk Podcast EPISODE #525 HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE PROFOUNDLY There are moments in life when something deeply personal finds its way into the wider world—and this is one of them. My photo project Chalk-Stone White has been included in The PhotoWalk Podcast by Neale James, Episode #525: “How to Change Your Life Profoundly” (UK, 27 March 2026).

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The Fictional: Rewriting Reality


The Fictional: Rewriting Reality (London, 2026) In 2024, I began The Fictional—a photographic inquiry into the fragile boundary between truth and illusion. Inspired in part by The Peripheral, the series explored how power persists through architecture, symbolism, and narrative, even as reality itself fractures. Now, in 2026, I return to the same terrain with Aeon

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Ophelia Rising 2026


‘Freedom begins where the old story ends’. ophelia rising now. ”OPHELIA RISING’ IS AN INVITATION: TO STEP OUT OF THE WATER, TO LET THE OLD SELF DISSOLVE, AND TO RESURRECT INTO A FREER EXISTENCE. She is taught to be beautiful before she is taught to be free. From childhood, the script is whispered into her

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Biography, Film

A Manifesto of Presence


Art is my practice of freedom — a rehearsal in being, in soft strength, in radical presence. In my series On Being an Angel, I explore freedom as a lived, embodied experience — especially the freedom of a woman who chooses to exist as an artist. To create not as decoration, not as permission-seeking, but

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Biography, Blog

How I became an artist


At thirteen, i had already outgrown my hometown. not physically — spiritually. i no longer fit the narrative written for me. I was too observant, too intense, too unwilling to dissolve into the collective. and so I became a target.

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Film, Photography

The Scent of Freedom


Freedom looks like disorder, It smells like decay, And still, it is freedom. The Scent of Freedom In the final years of communism, a system built on control, my grandmother—a nurse at a psychiatric hospital in central Poland—used to take me with her to work. I was a child, watching quietly. The hospital had been

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