PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Patrycja Chuszcz

I am a PhD candidate at the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the University of Lodz. I am interested in animal studies (especially in cinema), alternative forms of film production and film audience research. I am working on a project on the ways in which film audiences perceive film representations of so-called farm animals. In my free time, I go to the theater, cook with friends and spend time with my housemate cat Leia.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• "Developing a National Strategy for the Development of Education for the Film Animation and Special Effects Industries for 2023 - 2030" (2022-2023)

MOMAKIN Sp. z o.o., University of Lodz

Financed by the EEA Grants 2014-2021

• "New Forms and Technologies of Narration" (2022)

VRLAB, University of Lodz, IP PAN

Financed by Ministry of Science and Higher Education

• "Film literacy of students from primary and secondary schools in Lodz" (2018)

National Centre for Film Culture, Lodz

Co-financed by the Polish Film Institute

LEADING COURSES

• The Status of Nonhuman Animals in Culture, Law and Philosophy (2022/2023), University of Lodz
• Main Problems of Film Narration (with dr Michał Pabiś-Orzeszyna, 2021/2022), University of Lodz
• Lecturer in field of the School of Ideas (2018/2019), SWPS University, Warsaw

PUBLICATIONS

Dystrybucja i promocja filmów Stowarzyszenia Otwarte Klatki: między aktywistyczną agendą a marketingiem cyfrowym [Distribution and promotion of Open Cages Association films: between activist agenda and digital marketing]. Media – Kultura – Komunikacja Społeczna [Media - Culture - Social Communication]. To be published in 2023.

Dynamika edukacyjna aktywistów i system produkcji filmowej Stowarzyszenia Otwarte Klatki [The dynamics of educational and activities run by activists from the Otwarte Klatki (Open Cages) Association and its film production system]. Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication. Poznań 2022. No. 40. Pp. 111–125. doi.org/10.14746/i.2022.40.06.

W poszukiwaniu perspektywy zoocentrycznej w kinie niefikcjonalnym. Przykład produkcji filmowej Stowarzyszenia Otwarte Klatki. [In Search of a Zoocentric Perspective in Non-fiction Cinema: the Example of Film Productions by the Open Cages Association]. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies. 2022. No. 9. Pp. 1-34. doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.09.03.

Od teorii filmu do wideoesejów – ewolucja Festiwalu Krytyków Sztuki Filmowej Kamera Akcja (2010-2018) [From Film Theory to Video Essays – Evolution of the Festival of Film Critics “Camera, Action” (2010-2018)]. Kwartalnik Filmowy. Warszawa 2018. No. 104. Pp. 134-148.

Rzeczywistość przekracza wyobraźnię. Wywiad z Marcelem Łozińskim [Reality exceeds the imagination. Interview with Marcel Łoziński]. With Ewa Kabzińska. EKRANy 2018. No. 46.

Centrum Nauki Kopernik [Copernicus Science Centre]. Strategie wystawiennicze wybranych placówek muzealnych. Studia przypadków [Exhibition Strategies of Selected Museums. Case studies]. Ed. Marta Kasprzak, Monika Rawska. University of Lodz 2017.

MOBILITY

• Germany, 2nd doctoral seminar Łódź-Gießen (2022/2023)

Topic of seminar: “Polish-German cultural contacts“

• Spain, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2017/2018)

Exchange Programme Erasmus+

• Slovakia, Visegrad Film Forum in Bratislava (2017)

Interviews with the guests of the event and creating reports from the events on behalf of the Scientific Club of Film Studies of the University of Lodz

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

• The 32nd International Screen Studies Conference, The University of Glasgow, 30 June - 2 July 2023

Paper: Worldmaking for all animals: non-fiction film production culture of the Open Cages Association

• 4th Congress of Film and Media Researchers, Polish Society for Film and Media Studies, Warsaw, 28-30 June 2023

Paper: A film zoobiography or an anthropocentric epic? A case study of Jerzy Skolimowski's film “EO“

• NECS Conference, The University of Oslo, 13-17 June 2023

Paper: Do viewers feel it? Empathy for non-human animals in cinema

• Conference "Personnel training in the animation and special effects industry", The University of Lodz, 19 May 2023

Paper (with Oliwia Nadarzycka): Between self-education and formal education - ways for film animation creators to acquire competences

• Conference on Polish animation “ANIMOWANE, nieANONIMOWE” vol. 2, online, 17-18 May 2023

Paper (with Oliwia Nadarzycka): Do it yourself! On film animation education among high school students

• Conference “Heroism, activism, sacrifice - stories past and present”, Facta Ficta Research Center (2021)

Paper: Activism for Nonhuman Animals. An example of the culture of film production of the Open Cages Association

ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITY

• European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (2023)

Co-establishment and co-leadership of workgroup Film Animal Studies

Co-organization of the panel "Animal perspective and empathy strategies” for NECS Conference 2023

NECS membership (2022 - present)

• University Doctoral Students’ Government Council (term of office 2022-2024)

Member of the Mental Health Team

Member of the Disciplinary Committee for Doctoral Students

• ANIMOWANE, nieANONIMOWE Konferencja o! Polskiej Animacji vol. 2 (2022-2023)

Co-organization of a conference on Polish animation

• The 3rd Convention of Film and Media Scholars (2019)

Participation in the organization

• National Center for Film Culture, Lodz (2018)

Internship in the film education department

Participation in the organization of the "360 degrees of film education" conference

• Scientific Club of Film Studies of the University of Lodz (2016-present)

Organization and participation in meetings, workshops, conferences, scientific projects

Vice-president of the Scientific Club (2018/2019; 2022/2023)

International research project ThinkFilm, devoted to film education (Erasmus+)

• Festivals and cultural events organization

Freedom Games, Lodz (2018-2019)

Film Critics Festival “Camera Action”, Lodz (2016, 2018)

New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw (2018)

Krakow Film Music Festival (2018)

Festival de cine y derechos humanos de Madrid (2017)

Transatlantyk Festival, Lodz (2016-2019)

SCIENCE POPULARIZATION

Popular science articles, reports, reviews and interviews for Vege Magazine and Kaleidoscope, theater and film portals Teatralia and Reflektor, among others.

Broadcasts popularizing science and research in Meloradio and Student Radio Zak of the Technical University of Lodz.

First place and the Audience Award in the Talking Science competition in the humanities category (19.05.2023, University of Lodz)

The main prize in the Professor Ewelina Nurczyńska-Fidelska Competition for master thesis "Radical film production culture. An example of the Open Cages Association” (2021, Lodz, Poland)

Winner in XXVI Jan Józef Lipski Master Thesis Competition (Special award in memory of Joanna Wiszniewicz) for master thesis "Radical film production culture. An example of the Open Cages Association” (2021, Warsaw, Poland)

Santander Universidades scholarship (University of Lodz, Academic year 2016/2017)

The Rector’s scholarship for the best students, University of Lodz (2015-2020)