Anna Konik’s documentary A Song of Humble Beauty returns as a hybrid event combining a film screening with a performative sound installation in which crafted objects become instruments. The musical action extends the narrative beyond the cinema hall, creating a space for dialogue between image, mantra-like sound and material.
The filmic images — seemingly simple, repetitive, immersed in the rhythm of work — become a starting point for improvisation, in which sound is produced from objects inspired by the craft of Pakistan’s Sindh region. Speech gives way to gesture, and storytelling is replaced by experience. This is the first attempt to expand the language of film into the field of live experimental music. Image and sound operate in close dialogue, emphasizing the processual nature of the action and its grounding in attentive observation.
The event, at the intersection of film, installation, performance and experimental music, invites audiences to experience A Song of Humble Beauty as a living, developing organism — a story that does not end on the screen but resonates in space, body and object. After the performative part there will be a screening of the film and a conversation with its creators.
⏱️ 56 min., 2025
The film A Song of Humble Beauty was made with the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the 4th Karachi Biennale.
The Contemporary Music Space Hashtag Lab is co-financed by the Capital City of Warsaw.
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