HEAR MY CRY
1991, 46 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
Direction/Reżyseria MACIEJ DRYGAS
Script/Scenariusz MACIEJ DRYGAS
Cinematography/Zdjęcia STANISŁAW ŚLISKOWSKI
Editing/Montaż DOROTA WARDĘSZKIEWICZ
Sound/Dźwięk ANDRZEJ ŻABICKI
Music/Muzyka PAWEŁ SZYMAŃSKI
Produced by/Produkcja EDUCATIONAL FILM STUDIO
The story of an ordinary accountant from Przemyśl (south-east Poland), Ryszard Siwiec, who set himself on fire during the large harvest festival at the Warsaw stadium in 1968. He did it to protest against the military invasion in Czechoslovakia.
MACIEJ DRYGAS
Born in 1956 in Łódź. Scriptwriter and documentary film director. After graduation from the Film Directing Department at Moscow’s VGIK in 1981 he worked with Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieślowski as a director’s assistant. His documentaries include “False Start”, “Psychotherapy”, “Hear My Cry”, “State of Weightlessness”, “Voice of Hope”, “One Day in People’s Poland”, “Abu Haraz”, “Piano”. He has won a number of festival awards in, among others, Mumbai, Huston, Tai Pei, Monte Carlo, San Francisco, Nyon and Cracow. Member of Polish Film Academy. Currently he teaches at the Film School in Łódź.
CANVAS SKY
1967, 10 min, Poland
Polish with English subtitles
Direction/Reżyseria EDWARD ETLER
Script/Scenariusz EDWARD ETLER
Cinematography/Zdjęcia JACEK MIEROSŁAWSKI
Editing/Montaż JERZY DREDIER
Sound/Dźwięk ZDZISŁAW BRZOZOWSKI
Music/Muzyka CZERWONE GITARY
Produced by/Produkcja EDUCATIONAL FILM STUDIO
Documentary impression about the big-beats concerts in Sopot in the year 1967 in the framework of the big-beats marathons of the young generation of 60s. The pictures are accompanied by the music of the band “Red Guitars”.
EDWARD ETLER
Born in 1931 in Warsaw. Director, writer and cinematographer. He spent his childhood in Warsaw Ghetto. He later hid outside the ghetto. Graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. In 1968 he emigrated from Poland to Israel. Known for “Cemetery of Rem” (1961), “13th Floor” (1966) and “The White Waltz” (1965).
ARCHEOLOGY
1967, 14 min, Poland
Direction/Reżyseria ANDRZEJ BRZOZOWSKI
Script/Scenariusz ANDRZEJ BRZOZOWSKI
Cinematography/Zdjęcia JANUSZ CZECZ
Editing/Montaż KRYSTYNA LEŚNIEWSKA
Produced by/Produkcja EDUCATIONAL FILM STUDIO
Film about archaeological research on the ground of a former concentration camp. The theme of the film is related to horrible discoveries in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau (in the III Crematorium of concentration camp).
ANDRZEJ BRZOZOWSKI
Born in 1932 in Łódź. Documentary film director and writer. His best known films are “This Is an Egg” (1966), “Archaeology” (1967) and “Salome” (1969). He died in 2005 in Warsaw.
A FEW STORIES ABOUT MAN
1983, 20 min, Poland
Direction/Reżyseria BOGDAN DZIWORSKI
Script/Scenariusz BOGDAN DZIWORSKI
Cinematography/Zdjęcia KRZYSZTOF PTAK
Editing/Montaż AGNIESZKA BOJANOWSKA
Sound/Dźwięk JAN FREDA
Music/Muzyka JANUSZ HAJDUN
Produced by/Produkcja EDUCATIONAL FILM STUDIO
An extraordinary film with an extraordinary hero-a man deprived of both hands, and performing independently almost all the daily activities. We can see that Jerzy Orłowski not only maneuvers the key to the door, or ignites a cigarette, but also rides on skis, flies and draws-with real talent. All this is told without a single word, only a suggestive image, accompanied only by the individual sound effects and the whistling of the hero.
BOGDAN DZIWORSKI
Born in 1941 in Łódź. Documentary film director, cinematographer, photographer and university teacher A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź Film School (1965). An Ordinary Professor of Film and Photography and the Dean of the Radio and Television Department of the Silesia University in Katowice. He has received a number of prestigious awards for his excellent documentary films, which focus primarily on arts or sports and include “Cross and Axe”, “Hockey”, “Olympiad”, “A Few Stories about Man” at festivals in Bilbao, Brussels, Leipzig, Marseilles, Oberhausen, San Sebastian and Cracow, among others.
WORKING WOMEN
1978, 6 min, Poland
Direction/Reżyseria PIOTR SZULKIN
Script/Scenariusz PIOTR SZULKIN
Cinematography/Zdjęcia JACEK ZYGADŁO
Editing/Montaż AGNIESZKA BOJANOWSKA
Sound/Dźwięk JAN FREDA
Music/Muzyka JERZY MAKSYMIUK
Produced by/Produkcja EDUCATIONAL FILM STUDIO
Documentary about women’s work on the assembly line. Long hours of mind-numbing work, a steady rhythm of repetitive activities, after which there is no longer any energy for nothing. Film awarded at the festival in Oberhausen.
PIOTR SZULKIN
Born in 1950 in Gdańsk. Film director and writer. He directed over thirty films, both Polish and international productions. He was a recipient of “Best Science Fiction Film Director” at Eurocon in 1984. During the latter part of his career, he was also a professor at the National Film School in Łódź. Member of Polish Film Academy. Honored with the Order of Polonia Restituta. He died in 2018 in Warsaw.
SCREENINGS
Gallery Theatre
(1112 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago)
Tuesday, 19/11/2019 at 7:00 pm
