I met with Lech Majewski when he was in Seattle for a screening of The Glass Lips, a film version of his Blood of a Poet art installation.

We spoke about the international acclaim for his work, and the unique complications that arose when working with animals in his film The Roe's Room.

Majewski, a Polish artist who works internationally, is known for the films and videos he writes, directs, and shoots, and for his original scores. A graduate of the Lodz Film School, Majewski is also a poet, painter, and stage director celebrated for opera and theatrical events. His stylized moving-image works eschew language in favor of music and fantastically expressive landscapes, both domestic and topographical. His imaginative features—whether based on legends, like The Knight and Angelus, or on such real-life figures as Jean-Michel Basquiat and the poet Rafal Wojaczek—are distinguished by a unique sensibility hovering not only between the absurd and the metaphysical, but also the beautiful and the profane. - Museum of Modern Art

For more about Lech Majewski, please visit his web site.

Special thanks to MarQueen Hotel and SIFF Cinema for making this interview possible.