Paweł Wojtasik (b. Łódź, Poland) creates poetic reflections on cultures and ecosystems in his films and large-scale installations. His investigations into the overlooked corners of the environment have led him to pig farms, sewage treatment plants, wrecking yards, autopsy rooms, and cremation sites. Wojtasik received an M.F.A. from Yale University. From 1998 until 2000 he was a resident at Dai Bosatsu Zendo Buddhist monastery.
His installation work includes the immersive 360° Below Sea Level, about post-Katrina New Orleans, exhibited at MASS MoCA and included in Prospect.2 Biennial; as well as Single Stream (co-directed by Toby Lee and Ernst Karel), shown at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, 2014 Whitney Biennial, and at Ann Arbor Film Festival.
The Aquarium (2006), a film on the theme of sea mammals living in aquariums, was conceived at MacDowell with writer Ginger Strand. It was shown at Alona Kagan Gallery, NYC; PBS; Images Festival; and reviewed in Artforum.
Paweł’s first feature film End of Life (co-directed with John Bruce) had its US premiere at the 2018 New York Film Festival. Paweł's most recent feature film Every Pulse of the Heart Is Work, shot in India, had its NYC premiere at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2020.
