"Awakened Views" is an animation that takes viewers back to interwar Lviv to learn about the Armenian Cathedral and its creators. The cathedral is a place that was co-created by famous Polish artists, drawing inspiration from different cultures. The film 'Awakened Views' brings to life the paintings by Jan Henrik Rosen that decorate the interior of the cathedral and tells the story of the people depicted in them.

The film therefore 'features' the architect Franciszek Mączyński, thanks to whom it was possible to rebuild the former church. He is immediately followed by the painter and author of the mosaics in the dome of the cathedral, Józef Mehoffer. Jan Henryk Rosen, the author of the beautiful wall paintings, also speaks about himself. It is his face hidden behind the figure of the centurion that can be seen at the beginning of this story. Also to be found in the decoration of the church is the painter's father, Jan Bogumił Rosen, who gently bows his head before Christ. The discerning eye can probably discern a family resemblance between father and son here.

The next figure, like the previous one, begins the story by showing his image. This is Dionizy Kajetanowicz - administrator of the Lviv diocese, sentenced to 10 years in the camps, who unfortunately did not live to see his release. His superior Archbishop Jozef Teodorowicz is another reader in the story. He appears as St Gregory the Illuminator. It is thanks to his courage, stubbornness and vision, which lasted for almost 30 years of ministry here, that such a spectacular transformation of the church was possible, for he employed Mączyński, Mehoffer and Rosen.

The interior of the cathedral was not without another artist - Jacek Malczewski. His story begins with a portrait of the artist in a Franciscan habit. Not without reason, after all. He was one of the few artists to join the Secular Franciscan Order, under the spiritual protection of the First Order of St Francis.

The animation closes with the story of Odilon, depicted on the mars. Benedictine monk and superior of the Abbey of Cluny. It is in this representation that the two worlds clearly intermingle: the tangible and the intangible, spiritual.

The film 'Awakened Views' accompanies the exhibition 'The Armenian Cathedral in Lviv and its creators', which will be on view in the Orangery of the King John III Palace Museum in Wilanów from 2 October to 25 November 2019.