Sunday, September 6 | 18:00 | Kino Muza, screening room #1
Meeting with the directors of FROM WITHIN: Cezary Grzesiuk, Tomasz Szwan, and Krystian Kamiński following the screening of FROM WITHIN
Language: Polish
Zdzisław Beksiński is one of the most recognizable 20th century Polish painters. His surreal, visionary images remain hugely popular with audiences and are an inspiration to upcoming generations of artists. Beksiński was capturing his home life and creative process in the 1987-1997 period on video; “From Within” is composed entirely of the footage recorded by the master himself as well as by his family, resulting in a uniquely intimate diary which also chronicles the period of social change in Poland. The directors strive to remain unbiased as they chronicle the 300 hours of video footage left by Beksiński. Their film can be understood as the artist’s final work, his last attempt to face the unrelenting passage of time.
Guests:
Cezary Grzesiuk — producer, director, and film editor born in 1963, owner of the Blue dReam Film studio. Lecturer at Kraków’s AMA Film Academy. He edited numerous famous productions, including “Destined for Blues” (2005), “Little Rose” (2010), “Imagine” (2012), and “Once Upon a Time in November” (2017). Two-time Golden Lion winner for film editing at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia: for “The Haven” in 1998 and for “With Fire and Sword” in 1999. Awarded the Bronze Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture in 2016.
Tomasz Szwan — Sanok resident, graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Rzeszów. He initiated the 2009 Tomasz Beksiński memorial event, “Love Never Dies”, where he created the short documentary “Doctor Jimmy” screened at the 50th Krakow Film Festival.
Krystian Kamiński — born in 1988 in Warsaw, Kamiński studies film direction at the Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia. He participated in the 2005-2007 edition of Film Kindergarten classes at the Andrzej Wajda Movie Direction Master School known for the short film “Cold” screened at the 7th New Horizons International Film Festival. In 2011 Kamiński co-directed the Katowice Ateneum Theatre play “Zbuntowany Autobus, czyli jazda bez trzymanki”.
Moderator:
Andrzej Marzec — philosopher, film critic, editor of “Czas Kultury”, vlogger at “Widma Marca”. Marzec curates the “Krótkie spięcia” cinematic cycle at Pawilon and hosts philosophy debates at Kino Muza. His research focuses on object-oriented ontology, dark ecology, postdigital aesthetics, and contemporary alternative cinema. Author of "Widmontologia. Teoria filozoficzna i praktyka artystyczna ponowoczesności" (2015).
