Tadeusz Szczepański, Jan Troell
Korporacja Ha!art i Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty, Kraków-Warszawa 2009
Linia filmowa
Jan Troell is an extensive discourse by Tadeusz Szczepański - the best Polish expert in the film art of this outstanding Swedish director, who started his professional career as... a primary school teacher. For his artistic versatility, Troell, who directed his films, wrote screenplays for them, worked as a cinematographer and even edited the final works, is called a universal artist. Highly appreciated and respected in Sweden, creator of great, epic narratives, one of which - The Emigrants (Utvandrarna, 1971) and mentioned as equal to Bergman and Widerberg, Jan Troell is hardly known to the broader audience in Poland. The retrospective of his films at this year's International Film Festival Era New Horizons in Wrocław (July 2009) will be an opportunity to admire his art.
Official premiere at the 9th IFF Era New Horizons
Stanisław Zawiśliński, Zanussi - Przemiany
Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty, Warszawa 2009
Among the most important events at this year's International Film Festival Era New Horizons in Wrocław, will be a retrospective of films by Krzysztof Zanussi. Just one month prior, the distinguished director will celebrate his 70th birthday and this is another reason why a review of his art at this festival will be absolutely unique.
Film meetings of young spectators with the author of the cult Camouflage (Barwy ochronne) and Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową) will be enriched by a book prepared specifically for the 9th Festival by Stanisław Zawiśliński and entitled Zanussi - Przemiany.
The large dissertation of two hundred pages will be an attempt to see the Filmmaker Zanussi and the Man Zanussi from a contemporary perspective. Currently, the director's private archive is being examined and thus - as the editor says - with few exceptions, everything in the book will be new, or even updated.
In this work, Zanussi will be reflected by three mirrors. One of them will be selected and re-edited reviews and commentaries of the director's works, published in the Polish and foreign press.
The second one will include texts by critics and film theorists, e.g. Piotr Wojciechowski, Łukasz Maciejewski, Jerzy Sosnowski, father Andrzej Luter and Stanisław Zawiślański. Their essays will touch on many issues, including: Zanussi - metamorphoses of art and attitude; Zanussi as a creator; KZ's films reread; Zanussi and sacrum; Zanussi seen by the West; the director's images in new media or an authority knocked off its pedestal.
The third mirror, complementing the picture of Zanussi will be his peculiar confession: My times, my films.
Naturally, the publication will also include all standard elements like complete filmography and chronology of life and art of Krzystof Zanussi. The graphic aspect will include about 120 photos from the artist's private archive, most of them never published and copies of posters of his films.
Official premiere at the 9th IFF Era New Horizons
Jerzy Armata, Śnione filmy Piotra Dumały
Korporacja Ha!art i Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty, Kraków-Warszawa 2009
Poza seriami
Piotr Dumała is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating and most recognisable artists of Polish cinema. He has made about a dozen animated films, which have received many prestigious awards at festivals in Poland and abroad. Soon, his first full-length feature film entitled The Forest (Las) will be screened at cinemas. In his animations he uses the traditional drawing technique (e.g. Little Black Riding Hood - Czarny Kapturek, Jittery Life in Space - Nerwowe życie kosmosu) and the plaster-plate technique he himself invented (e.g. Gentle Spirit - Łagodna, Walls - Ściany, Franz Kafka, Crime and Punishment - Zbrodnia i kara). Visual originality in excellent harmony with a soundtrack, precision of the tiniest details and especially the skill to adapt difficult issues for screen in an attractive way - these are the hallmarks of his cinema. He is also active in applied animation, making credits for TV series, broadcasts, festivals, commercials, music videos. He draws for the press, designs book covers and posters for films and theatre performances. Occasionally he acts. The author of numerous short stories, gathered in the book Playing safety razors, and of the comic book Crime and Punishment 1980. He teaches as well at the Łódź film school and elsewhere.
The book Śnione filmy Piotra Dumały will be an attempt to describe this unique art. It will include a critical analysis, but also an interview with the artist, fragments of already published texts on his artistic achievements, texts by his collaborators and friends, documentation of Dumała's work (biofilmography, notes about films, list of awards, bibliography), several short stories and plenty of illustrations (drawings, posters, frames from films, fragments of comic books, pictures).
The publication is related to the retrospective of Piotr Dumała's work which will be presented at this year's International Film Festival ERA NEW HORIZONS in Wrocław.
The publication financially supported by the Polish Film Institute
Official premiere at the 9th IFF Era New Horizons
Złota era węgierskiego kina. Lata 60. i 70.
Korporacja Ha!art i Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty, Kraków-Warszawa 2009
Linia filmowa
The Golden age of Hungarian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s was an extraordinary time for cinema. Andrzej Werner describes a situation we can hardly imagine now: crowds of people going to see a film almost exclusively for its aesthetical value, without tempting advertisements or posters. Very often, there were simply no advertisements or posters. In the planned book the fascinating phenomenon of Hungarian films of those times is discussed by critics of the young and middle-aged generation: Lorant Stohr (about the documentary trend), Balazs Varga (about the Hungarian new wave of the 1960s and new generation of the 1970s), Gabor Gelencser (about the Hungarian original and creative cinema) and Gyorgy Baron (about the leading representative of the "golden age" of the Hungarian cinema - Miklos Janco). The critical essays are matched by two historical descriptions of how Hungarian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s was perceived in Poland and in the former Czechoslovakia, written by Andrzej Werner and Radim Valak.
Official premiere at the 9th IFF Era New Horizons
Hynek Pallas, Nowe kino szwedzkie
Korporacja Ha!art i Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty, Kraków-Warszawa 2009
Linia filmowa
In the past decade, the Swedish film industry has changed significantly. With the shifting balance of forces in film production and developing technologies, new production companies and new directors have turned up. These processes affected the type of stories filmed and the way they are filmed. The book Nowe kino szwedzkie follows and analyses these changes and presents the most interesting films and directors of various genres.
Official premiere at the 9th IFF Era New Horizons
Nie chcę spać sam. Kino Tsai Ming-lianga, edited by Paulina Kwiatkowska and Kuba Mikurda
Korporacja Ha!art i Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty, Kraków-Warszawa 2009
Linia filmowa
Despite critics' enthusiasm and spectators' interest, not many books have been devoted to the art of Tsai Ming-liang. Nie chcę spać sam. Kino Tsai Ming-lianga is one of the first such publications - an opportunity to confront the phenomenon which is neither entirely recognised nor easy to classify, with an unclosed output, filmography in progress.
Official premiere at the 9th IFF Era New Horizons
Kuba Mikurda, Michał Oleszczyk, Rozmowy z Guyem Maddinem
Korporacja Ha!art i Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty, Kraków-Warszawa 2009
Linia Wizualna
Guy Maddin refreshes the cinema language, drawing from silent films, early "talkies", European painting, 19th-century literature (e.g. Bruno Schulz, Robert Musil, Raymond Roussel) and his own biography. Guy Maddin's films are a rare phenomenon - experimental and popular at the same time, formally sophisticated and yet easily understandable, erudite and intimate as well. Maddin sets cinema stereotypes in motion, he re-invents long-forgotten techniques, uses overlapping conventions - as if shaking a kaleidoscope now and again, with colliding emotions, images and stories.
In February 2009, Kuba Mikurda and Michał Oleszczyk visited Maddin in "his" Winnipeg and on return they brought back more than 25 hours of recorded conversations. Rozmowy z Guyem Maddinem is a record of "magnificent obsessions" - mad love for cinema, private mythologies, work on "live memories".
Official premiere at the 9th IFF Era New Horizons
