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Antek Walczak

Biography

Writes Walczak: "At some point during the writing of this EAI bio, Antek Walczak imagined grouping all his nouvelle-vague-grammar-crust videos under the title Old Life of a Sad Film Student. While other film students in 1990s New York were directing music videos for Pavement, starting youtube-before-youtube underground film fests, or going to real film festivals like Cannes with their real films, Walczak was working at his desk in the Bowery offices of a radical offshoot of downtown fashion called Bernadette Corporation. After several years devoted to reconsidering collective avant-garde legacies in terms of the contemporary media environment, change came in the form of an internal power struggle that ended the B-Corp fashion label and split up the collective into irreconcilable factions, leaving behind a pile of tapes from unfinished fashion spots that became material for Antek's solo video debut. It was during this hiatus of 1998-9, between incarnations