Natalia Śliwowska is a Polish film director, researcher and visual artist with a background in film and critical art theory which are fundamental to her work.
She is a 2021 cum laude alumna of a Master in Artistic Research at the Dutch Film Academy. Her film works explore the fallibility of memory and truth. Her practice explores metaphysics of causation, collective visions and intuitive knowledge. Rigorous about ethics in documentary representation, she perceives the camera as a liberating, mystical and enabling tool. She finds parallels between the seance of ghosts summoning and the séance de cinéma.

Her directorial feature debut, Insurance Against Meteorites expects its premiere in 2026. It is produced by Katarzyna Kuczyńska (HAKA Films, Poland) in collaboration with MUBI and Plan B Entertainment.

Natalia currently lives and works in Amsterdam.

AWARDS | SCHOLARSHIPS

2024 ”Młoda Polska” Scholarship from The Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
2023 nomination to 3-PackageDeal - film coalition in Amsterdam
consisting of Nederlandse Film Academy, EYE Filmmuseum and IDFA.
2023 DAE Pitch Talent Prize, EastDocPlatform, Prague
2021 HBO Max Award, DOcsToStart Krakow film festival; Industry Pitching

EXHIBITIONS | RESIDENCIES

2025 DocLab Poland, Documentary lab
“Petal Peaks” - documentary series in research phase;
2023 Moving Arts Centre, Amsterdam, NL;
2022 Essay Film Studio Visual Narratives Lab Lodz Film School, Lódź, PL.
2021 WOW Amsterdam, NL.
2021 “Can everyone turn their camera on” group exhibition at MACA,
Amsterdam, NL. Curator: Maaike Gouwenberg, NL
2019 “Rozszczepienia” solo exhibition, part of “Art is a woman” series of exhibitions. HART- Art, Wrocław; curator: prof. Jakub Fereński, PL

TEACHING

2022, 2024 Digital intimmacies in personal essay film (co-created with Jori Amit Galama.) Text and Image department at Rietveld Art Academy, Amsterdam.

CONTACT

nataliasliwowska@proton.me

instagram: natalia.sliwowska