Paweł Wojtasik is a filmmaker and video artist born in Łódź, Poland in 1952 and currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. Wojtasik lived in Tunisia before immigrating to the U.S in 1972. He received an MFA from Yale University in 1996. From 1998 until 2000 Wojtasik was a resident at Dai Bosatsu Zendo Buddhist monastery. Many of his works are concerned with the intersection of human activity and the environment. Dark Sun Squeeze (2003), filmed at a sewage treatment plant, was part of Greater New York 2005 exhibition at PS1/MoMA. Wojtasik’s work The Aquarium (2006), a collaboration with writer Ginger Strand, deals with the destruction of the ocean life, while his 360-degree panoramic video installation Below Sea Level (2009), with sound by Stephen Vitiello, concerns itself with the plight of New Orleans. Next Atlantis, a collaboration with composer Sebastian Currier, had its premiere at Carnegie Hall in 2010. That same year, At the Still Point, a 5-channel installation filmed in India, with soundscape by Stephen Vitiello, was shown at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY. Wojtasik’s film Pigs was shown in the New York Film Festival (2010) and Berlin Film Festival (2011) and won the grand prize in the short film category at the Hong Kong International Film Festival (2011). Wojtasik was a featured artist of the 2009 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. In 2012 he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to make a feature-length film on the theme of labor in India. Most recently Wojtasik has been named a 2012 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellow in Video/Film. His work is represented by Video Data Bank.
