Antonisz worked on this film during the time of martial law in Poland in the early 1980s when the country was deep in the midst of economical crisis. It was a time when the ideologies of progress and optimism had already been rejected, and since the 1960’s, parodies of socialist realism and the paranoia of everyday life had become common themes. What is unique about this film is that it addressed scientific narratives which were seen as a privileged field of culture, granting access to an ‘objective reality’. It is interesting that films of this period struggled to evade censorship and it was this battle that inspired the art form. This non-camera film was made with one of the devices designed and constructed by Antonisz, based on the pantograph and hand painted by his wife Danuta Antoniszczak. It tells the story of bio-inventor Magister Kiziołł (possibly taken to be the artist’s alter ego), who through self discipline and intense professional effort, develops an extra organ which “allowed him to chew on straw, hay, grass, sawdust, scrap metal, waste paper and even the daily news on television”.