JACK SMITH: DISCUSSION PANEL
26 July, Tuesday, 12:45, Helios 3
Participants: Marc Siegel, Mario Montez, J. Hoberman, Ela Troyano, Uzi Parnes
Discussion leader: Ewa Szabłowska
Co-workers and friends of Andy Warhol, film director, tell about the phenomenon of "the only man Andy Warhol would like to copy". Discussion about Jack Smith as an originator of queer underground, father of performance and the highest priestess of Babylon of Lower Manhattan. Discussion in English with translation.
MARIUSZ WILCZYŃSKI: MASTERCLASS
25 July, Monday, 1 pm, Helios 5
27 July, Wensday, 1pm, Helios 5
'When I was asked to select ten favourite animations – I was speechless. Where will I find ten of them when, from those which I have seen, four, maybe five moved me? I began frantically searching… And suddenly I thought that it was pointless, that I should show what really interests me and what inspires me. Indicating my favourite feature film was similar. I hesitated for a long time…' (Mariusz Wilczyński)
BÉLA TARR: MASTERCLASS
26 July, Tuesday, 3.45 pm, Helios 5
The author of the legendary Satantango, a character from the retrospective on the International Film Festival Era New Horizons in 2004, is now one of the most prominent directors. After his latest film, Turin Horse (The Silver Bear on Berlinale 2011), he announced he was leaving the cinema business. Lecture is in English with translations.
ANJA BREIEN: MASTERCLASS
28 July, Thursday, 12:45 pm, Helios 3
The most renowned Norwegian female director analyzes her films The Witch Hunt, Wives, Games of Love and Loneliness within the context of changing moral and film standards of presenting women. Lecture in English with translation. Introduction and leading: Jan Erik Holst
PRZEMYSŁAW WOJCIESZEK: HERITAGE. PICTURES FROM THE HDSLR REVOLUTION
28 July, Thursday, 0.00, Helios 3
Przemysław Wojcieszek: "The cinema in Poland is a domain of the rich and satiated. Conventional film production, protected by the State, belongs to the apparatus of repressions. The cinema has never been a weapon of the privileged and satiated. It is a weapon of the excluded and poor. We transform the act of an independent creation into the act of aggression towards the system, which eliminates everything that does not fit its neoliberal framework. We use for this HDSLR cameras, lens and memory cards. I call this a revolution."
GAZETA CAFÉ
All meetings of this series are led by a journalist of Gazeta Wyborcza, Paweł T. Felis, and they take place at 7 pm at the summer stage of the Puppet Theatre.
PRESS CONFERENCES
Conferences attended by authors will take place after the end of the premiere film screenings within the New Polish Films competition. Meetings will be led by Janusz Wróblewski, editor and film critic of Polityka weekly.
