Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s first feature-length film, Such Feeling, originated as a prologue to his choreographic exhibition of the same title at Kunsthalle Basel in 2019. The film was expanded and re-edited with each new exhibition presentation, as a processual cine-performance, eventually transforming and premiering as a feature film in 2024.

Such Feeling is a poetic and political documentary that follows a group of friends, Aaa, Billy, Dawid, Filipka, and Olo, in Warsaw who perform, protest and support each other amidst social transformation in a hostile state. This is a poetic account of everyday queer life, friendship, intimacy, and resistance in Poland in the years 2019–2024.

“The most important contemporary documentary on queer Warsaw. An honest portrait of a group of friends, which became a generational manifesto.” – WatchDocs Film Festival, 2024

CREDITS
Such Feeling / To uczucie (2024), 76′

Director
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins

Producer
Ivo Krankowski

Written by
Alex Baczyński-Jenkins and Krzysztof Bagiński

Cinematography
Krzysztof Bagiński

Editing
Agata Cierniak, Albert Bana

Music
Jasia Rabiej

Starring
Aaa Biczysko, Filipka Rutkowska, Billy Morgan, Dawid Nickel, Olo Rusinek

Graphic design and typography
Rosen Eveleigh and Carlo Canun

Co-producer
LaCamera Independent, Canal+ Poland, Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission

Media partner
Vogue Polska