Susann Carmen Jagodzińska

"Seeded within the earthly roots of unknowingness,
we wandered down here to a place where light became stone.
Love was the purpose, experience was the purpose,
transformation was the purpose.
Pearlescent waves opened the sky, embracing the oceans,
transcending the stones.
Deep in its core…
Bringing it all back, its memories back."
" The Song of the sleeping forest"
Susann Carmen Jagodzińska

Susann Carmen Jagodzińska (Born 1990 in Germany) is a polish photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Paris, France.
Her work is a meditative reflection that focuses on the inner sphere and its relationship with the collective, universal nature.
After studying philosophy, ethnology, film and creation in Germany, Japan and France she wrote her masterwork titled:
"Organic Cinema, recognizing the artificial, confronting the past".
The work aims to reflect upon an "organic" ( or more "human") approach towards film- (art) making.
Questioning the industrial approach to continuous looping of codes in replay and how this affects human selfawarness.
A subject that she continues to recherche and explore scientifically and artistically.
While working with film, photography and text.
"Our present society is based on an internal disconnection.
We have co- created a highly divided, cold world where the inner Instinct, Intuition, Soul expression
is suppressed and highly controlled by external structures of power, power-abuse.
There is a deep internal longing... towards the journey, the spiritual journey that Life is.
Creation (and Art as a part of it) is holding the tool of remembrance towards this journey when met with compassion.
Selfintergration carries the form of an ascending spiral and is able to transcend space and time.
This brings the experience of an internal flowering, while questioning and learning about the nature of the known reality.
The own reality. "
Her debut short film Brzeg (Shore), telling the story of two children lost in a suspended world,
between memory and reality, life and death.
Echo of Photons, a photo text book published in 2022 that documents the process in which she got aware of her own internal fragmentation
and the importance of nature leading the process towards healing,
featuring a series which got a special mention from Urbanautica Awards 2024.
Since 2021, she is working on "Children of the golden Sun" that brings to awareness the importance of understanding Traumatransposition.
For this project she got selected for the Masterclass "Making of the Handmade Artist Book" held by Origini Edizioni in Livorno, Italy.
She received international recognitions and was part of international exhibitions.
Photography
Children of the golden Sun, 2021-ongoing
Echo of Photons, 2017-2022
Photography Essay
I am, 2025
Filmography
Prayer to the Ocean, 2024
Super 8, color, b&w, 04:04
Morning Dew, 2022
Super 8, Sepia, color, 04:43
Initiale, 2021
Super 8, b&w, 04:59
Between Earth and Sky 2020,
16mm b&w film, 03:36
Brzeg (Shore), 2019
Digital, b&w and color, 14:12 min
Bibliography
Children of the golden Sun, 2023- 2025
fiction - poetry
Echo of Photons, 2022
fiction- poetry
Moj Raj (My Paradise) , 2019 - ongoing
fiction-poetry
Neige Rouge (Red Snow), 2017
scenario

PHOTOGRAPHY
BOOKS
"Children of the golden Sun" 2025 . Dummy made during the Origini Masterclass 2025.
"Echo of Photons" 2022 edited by Céedition
PUPLICATIONS
"Neither here, nor There". Ephemere. Tokyo, Japan, 2025
"ZIVNE". Zone, Italy, 2025
Aenionan Magazine. Experimental Photography. Issue. No. 13. Online
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
Photographic essay “I am”. Ephemere Foto Fest. Conceal Gallery Shibuya. Tokyo, Japan 2025
“Children of the golden Sun”. FotoSlovo Awards 2025. Apothices Papadaki Gallery. Limassol, Cyprus 2025
"Children of the golden Sun". Meditative Lens. Art Doc Magazine. 2025 Online
"Peace". A Summer of Hope. Lenscratch. 2025 Online
"Echo of Photons". The Concept Vol. 1. Gallery: IRIS ARLES, Arles, France 2024
"Echo of Photons" Identity. Art Doc Magazine. 2022. Online
"Suspendu Dans l’Espace". Formatova. Les Grands Voisins. Paris, France 2019
INTERVIEW
Film Interview with Susann Carmen Jagodzinska . Echo of Photons. Iris Arles. Exhibition
RECOGNITIONS
"Children of the golden Sun". Analog Sparks International Photography Awards 2025. Fine Art Category. Honorable Mention
"Children of the golden Sun". FotoSlovo International Photography Awards 2025 . Honorable Mention
"Echo of Photons”. Urbanautica International Photography Awards 2024, Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes. Special Mention
FILM
RECOGNITIONS
"Neige Rouge" scenarion. Finalist. G.R.E.C. 2017
PROJECTIONS
"Prayer to the Ocean" . Official Selection. Proxy Act Festival. Italy. 2025
"Prayer to the Ocean", International Film Poetry Festival in Rogil, Portugal, Curated by the Institute for Experimental Arts, Athen. 2025
"Prayer to the Ocean", International Film Poetry Festival in Sagres, Portugal, Curated by the Institute for Experimental Arts, Athen. 2025
"Prayer to the Ocean" 12th International Video Poetry Festival in Athen, Greece. 2025
"Prayer to the Ocean" Poesia Sin Fin. Cinéma le Balzac, Paris, France. 2025
INTERVIEW
Documentary Series. Portraits de Cineastes. Susann Carmen Jagodzinska .Short film, Digital, B&W and Color,14:12. Dénis Doucet for Filmowide
RESIDENCES
G.R.E.C. Finalist. Scenario Masterclass for the project "Neige Rouge". Grenoble, 2017
EDUCATION
MASTERCLASS & MENTORING PROGRAMMS
Mentoring Program with "Les amis du (engl. Friends of the) National Museum of Woman in the Arts", in Washington D.C., USA. 2026
"Fortnight" Mentoring with Ilias Georgiadis. 2025/2026
Origini Edizioni Masterclass. "Making of an handmade artist book". Livorno, Italy. 2025
STUDIES
Philosophy & Ethnology at University Bremen, Germany (B.A)
with an exchange at the 愛知大学 -Aichi Daigaku, Nagoya, Japan
Film, Esthetic & Creation at the Sorbonne Pantheon University Paris 1, France (M.A)
RESEARCH WORK
BACHELOR WORK
"The meaning of the Buddhistic Ritual Mizuko-kuyo (水子供養 ), for the Japanese woman"
MASTER WORK
“Organic Cinema: Recognizing the Artificiel, Confronting the past”
This work aims to show how Organic Cinema, a cinema that would like to get closer to nature, to make space for real time, through, for example, long takes, stands out in its relationship between the author, the work and the observer. It intends to show that the cinema and its codes can have effects which encourage the reproduction of artificial constructions. Which can be manipulated and manipulative as in the case of propaganda. It is particularly focused on Eastern Europe. It studyies the filmic processes used and invented under communism, compares the Organic Cinema to them and looks at the responses of two films in particular: Sátántangó by Béla Tarr and Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. It tries to see how these films encourage presence and recognition of the artificial (denial, belief systems, etc.). The recognition of these artificial constructions and the spatio-temporal re-expérience offered by their cinema leave room for the observer to be able to confront his past, find a voice to talk about his wounds, and begin, perhaps, a journey towards healing.