WHAT AM I DOING?
The questions surrounding how we act together are at the core of my practice. I work reflexively with others to examine how and why we conform to systems and what the possibility of breaking with a pattern might offer.

I am involved in ongoing practical research into structuring live events and processes, which open up spaces for active examination and critical exploration of a subject, by those present. I am keen to develop forms, which offer the potential for participatory and active research through filmmaking or screening, performing or playing games.

In 2010 I founded the Samsonov Film and Theatre Cooperative, a collective of performers, cinematographers, sound designers and editors, experimenting with alternative film making methods. The project culminated in a feature film ("The Inspection House (training for the family in how to act)"), which employs, unpicks and reconfigures the structural "rules" of narrative cinema's 'hero's journey'.

I studied Graphic Design in Bristol, Painting at the Royal College of Art, and Cinematography at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz; I was also a member of the Lux Associate Artists 2011. I live in London and Warsaw. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2012
I Don’t Want To Make A Book, (performance) ICA, The Mall, London
A MOCK UP, (performance) X Marks The Bokship, London
THE REAL TRICK IS TO DISAPPEAR, with Patrick Staff & Chris Kraus, Outpost, Norwich

2011
BODIES ASSEMBLING, (screening) curated by Cinenova, Auto Italia, London
FEELINGS ARE SHIT, with Patrick Staff & Chris Kraus, X Marks The Bokship, London
MOVE: TOGETHER, screening, South London Gallery, London
ABEND, (screening), VeSch, Vienna, Austria
NOTES AND PROJECTS, (group show) Hollybush Gardens, London, UK

2010
ANONYMOUS MATERIALS, curated by Pamela Rosenkranz, BINZ39, Zurich, Switzerland

2009
CAMERIMAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (screening) Lódz, Poland. 
MELODIES AND ROCKS CO. co-operation with Dawn Mellor, Karma International, Zurich
THE ST UNICORN’S TRUST, performance with Adam James, ALMA Enterprises, London
LUMEN EVOLUTION FESTIVAL (screening) Leeds, UK
EVENT HORIZON, RASTER Gallery (screening) Warsaw, Poland

2008
DRAGGED DOWN INTO LOWER CASE Sommerakademie, Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Café Gallery Projects, London. 
THE HALFWAY HOUSE solo show + special guests Martin Clark & Gil Leung, domobaal,
BRIGHTON FILM FESTIVAL, The Lighthouse, Cine City

2007 
JERWOOD CONTEMPORY PAINTERS AWARD (exhibition), Jerwood Space, London and The Lowry, Manchester

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2012
AIR, Krems, Austria
Fogo Island Arts Corp, Newfoundland
2011
WYSING ART CENTRE, Cambridge, UK
LUX Associate Artists Programme, London
2010
The Van Gogh Award For Excellence in Cinematography, Amsterdam Film Festival
2009
THE 5 SENSES OF VILNIUS, Capital City of Culture 2009, Lithuania
2008
SOMMERAKADEMIE FOUNDATION AT ZENTRUM PAUL KLEE, ‘dragged down into lowercase’ hosted by Dr. Clémentine Deliss and Oscar Tuazon, Berne, Switzerland. 
2006 
NATIONAL FILM THEATRE / HAYWARD GALLERY ’60 Second Surreal’. 

URL
www.samsonovfamily.com
www.youtube.com/user/LKPawlak
www.suspendedroom.net