By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Urszula Antoniak switched her narrative methods in the mid 2010’s. After portraying deeply emotional and intimate narrative films like Nothing Personal (2009) and Code Blue (2011), she turned to a minimalistic style, vignette-driven method of portraying an emotional pathos between her characters, specially in Nude Area (2014), where her cinema was stripped bare of most of her usual elements to focus on particular emotional explorations with the image. And while the results of this switch were mixed, Antoniak seems to have found a middle ground with the recent Splendid Isolation (2021), premiered in IFFR 2022.