monday'screening 14th May 2oo7
We are introducing Marcel Lozinski’s documentary forms
Event hosted by ‘the people speak’
20:00
‘The King’
‘The Visit’
‘Happy End’
‘Front Collision’
‘Microphone Test’
‘Matriculation’
’89 mm from Europe’
Marcel Lozinski is one of the internationally most acclaimed Polish film documentary filmmakers, boasting prizes from numerous film festivals, including Oberhausen, Krakow, San Francisco and Leipzig.
1971 witnessed a generational change in Polish documentary, with debuts by young filmmakers such as Tomasz Zygadlo, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Wojciech Wiszniewski and Pawel Kedzierski. As a group, they moved away from neo-realistic, objective registration of reality advocated mainly by Kazimierz Karabasz, veered towards describing social reality and unravelling the non-presented world.
Lozinski was one of the leading directors of the generation whose films were marked by "a skepticism of official, façade life which was at odds with individual experience" and revealed the inconsistency "between the official and personal living", Lozinski's documentaries made in communist Poland, such as PROBA MIKROFONU [THE MICROPHONE TEST],
ZDERZENIE CZOLOWE [A HEAD-ON COLLISION], HAPPY END, KROL [THE KING]
and EGZAMIN DOJRZALOSCI [MATRICULATION],
are now considered documentary classics of the period, were indeed akin to political and social essays. Most of the later ones were stopped from release or interfered with by the authorities, often without Lozinski's knowledge.
The interesting thing is the directors approach to pointing the situation of filming itself: to what extent it is possible to capture the truth about man by means of camera and a microphone. The director allows us to become aware of what mcluhan's theory says: the media becomes the message regardless of what they represent. "The Visit", "Microphone Test" and "Practise exercises" continue a trilogy whose subject is the media; the positive (or negative) role they play,; their thematic film about filmmakers (ourselves) and journalists - says Lozinski, about how easily you can interfere in man’s soul and eviscerate him.
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Monday, 14th May 2007, 8pm,
We are introducing Marcel Lozinski’s documentary forms
Event hosted by ‘the people speak’
20:00
‘The King’
‘The Visit’
‘Happy End’
‘Front Collision’
‘Microphone Test’
‘Matriculation’
’89 mm from Europe’
Marcel Lozinski is one of the internationally most acclaimed Polish film documentary filmmakers, boasting prizes from numerous film festivals,
including Oberhausen, Krakow, San Francisco and Leipzig.
1971 witnessed a generational change in Polish documentary,
with debuts by young filmmakers such as Tomasz Zygadlo, Krzysztof Kieslowski,
Wojciech Wiszniewski and Pawel Kedzierski. As a group, they moved away from neo-realistic,
objective registration of reality advocated mainly by Kazimierz Karabasz,
veered towards describing social reality and unravelling the non-presented world.
Lozinski was one of the leading directors of the generation whose films
were marked by "a skepticism of official, façade life which was at odds with individual experience"
and revealed the inconsistency "between the official and personal living",
Lozinski's documentaries made in communist Poland, such as
PROBA MIKROFONU [THE MICROPHONE TEST],
ZDERZENIE CZOLOWE [A HEAD-ON COLLISION],
HAPPY END, KROL [THE KING]
and EGZAMIN DOJRZALOSCI [MATRICULATION],
are now considered documentary classics of the period,
were indeed akin to political and social essays. Most of the later ones were stopped
from release or interfered with by the authorities, often without Lozinski's knowledge.
The interesting thing is the directors approach to pointing the situation of filming
itself: to what extent it is possible to capture the truth about man by means
of camera and a microphone. The director allows us to become aware of what
mcluhan's theory says: the media becomes the message regardless of what
they represent. "The Visit", "Microphone Test" and "Practise exercises" continue
a trilogy whose subject is the media; the positive (or negative) role they play,;
their thematic film about filmmakers (ourselves) and journalists - says
Lozinski, about how easily you can interfere in man’s soul and eviscerate him.
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Monday, 14th May 2007, 8pm,
1-3 Frederick Terrace, E8 4EW, London
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