If Pigeons Turned to Gold
Filmmaker Pepa Lubojacki documents four family members over many years as they each move in and out of unstable housing while living with addiction – a struggle that has shaped their family across generations, especially brother David. Returning again and again with their mobile phone, Pepa amasses 200+ hours of footage, searching for the brother they once knew while reckoning with their own limits in trying to help. Combining diary footage, AI-animated talking photographs and a variety of spectacular graphical elements, Pepa pushes the boundaries of what is possible in documentary form. Shifting between playful and serious, it may leave you feeling changed about how you see addiction and those living within it.
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Josefina ‘Pepa’ Lubojacki (they/she) is a Prague-based scriptwriter and documentary film director. Their first short documentary film ABOUT-HAIR was nominated for the Magnesia Award in 2019 and was screened at a range of film festivals across Europe. Pepa lived for two years in London, where they organized the Short Film Festival for a small independent gallery. For several years they worked as a programmer for the QFF Mezipatra, and co-organised the cultural festival Queereye.
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