Sunday 5 April 2009, 15.00

Andrzej Kondratiuk
THE HYDRO-RIDDLE / HYDROZAGADKA
Poland 1970, 70 min, video

A superhero comedy modelled on detective films and comic-strip parodies, The Hydro-Riddle begins during a Warsaw heat-wave, in which the city's water supply has inexplicably vanished, and scientists and a detective desperately try to solve the mystery. With its gleeful deconstruction of film heroes and icons, its unapologetically inappropriate quotations from Shakespeare, Goethe and others, and its terrific camera-work, it's hard to believe The Hydro-Riddle was made in communist Poland.

Bogdan Dziworski, Gerald Kargl & Zbigniew Rybczyński
SKIING SCENES WITH FRANZ KLAMMER / SCENY NARCIARSKIE Z FRANZEM KLAMMEREM
Poland 1980, 22 min, 35mm, no dialogue

One of the best examples of 'creative documentary', the paradoxical genre examined and expanded by artists from the Łódź Film School, the film presents a biographical-visual impression of an Austrian skier-celebrity of the late-70s.

Wojciech Wiszniewski
WANDA GOŚCIMIŃSKA'S A TEXTILE WORKER / WANDA GOŚCIMIŃSKA WŁÓKNIARKA
Poland 1975, 21 min, 35mm

The film focuses on a symbol and product of communist propaganda of the 50s - the famous labor leader Wanda Gościmińska from Łódź, deconstructing the false mechanisms, beliefs and rituals of the totalitarian era. This 'creative documentary' combines set design by conceptual artist Ewa Partum and cinematography by Zbigniew Rybczyński.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended