Julia Pawelzik

HAPPINESS: A FEELING BEYOND THE SELF CENTEREDNESS
OF THE INDIVIDUAL

What is happiness? Is it not an emotion that comes and goes, that is caused by many different factors and that can strike anyone at anytime, no matter how or who we are?

My book HOW ARE WE started as a list of emotions that lead me to question, who and how are we? The idea is, that everyone, no matter how or who they are, has the potential to experience any of the emotions on my list. More importantly, anyone has the potential to be happy if they turn to right pages.

My short documentary film HAPPY THOUGHTS simply asks people on Kilburn High Road ‘what makes you most happy?’.

My short film MOOD SWING is inspired by the idea that our mood is constantly changing from good to bad, to good, to bad and so on, throughout our lives. There are two versions of the film, one of which has been edited without a beggining or an ending title, so that can be played in loop mode as an exhibition piece.