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Department
Direction
Direction
An excellent Polish film and theatre director, and a Lodz Film School’s graduate, Kazimierz Kutz, will visit the school on 24 November at 2 p.m.
Kazimierz Kutz has been invited to come to Lodz as an honorary guest of the 22 European Film Forum ORLEN Cinergia. On the occasion of the visit to Lodz his footsteps will lead him straight to Targowa Street where on 24 November (Friday) at 2 p.m. he will meet the students, professors and his films’ viewers at the TV Studio.
The films “Nobody Calls” (1960), Silesian Trilogy: “Salt of the Black Earth” (1969), “Pearl in the Crown” (1971) and “Beads of one Rosary” (1979); „Death as a Bread Slice” (1994) , and “Reverted” (1994) are the most prominent ones in his filmography. Kutz is not only a filmmaker, the director of over 20 films, but also a politician known for his colourful, down to the point statements. For us he is a goldmine of knowledge about the first years of the Lodz Film School, its professors and students who would later on be recognized as the representatives of the so called Polish School of Film. During the meeting at the school Kazimierz Kutz will read fragments of the book he is currently working on which recalls those people and those times.
Kutz wrote for Gazeta Wyborcza: “Andrzej Wajda passed away, and shortly after him, Tadeusz Chmielewski, the last colleague from my year in the Film School. The generation of film-makers from the “Polish School of Film” has gone completely. And it is me who will have the honour to turn the lights off after the first post-war generation of film-makers. As a matter of fact, I was the youngest of those who were admitted to the Film School and then were on the front line of filmmakers who would define the new aesthetic borders of Polish cinema. ” – („Kazimierz Kutz: Idzie czas ludojadów”, 7.01.2017).
During the meeting at the school, Kutz will receive the Golden “Bovver Boot”, the prize of Charlie Cinema and "Łódź Filmowa” Association, awarded to independent artists who in a consistent way oppose the trends present in pop culture, and who reveal and ridicule myths and stereotypes present in the mass imagination of the Poles.
Finally, Kazimierz Kutz’ Day at the Film School will finish with a screening of his film, "Nobody Calls” with photography by Jerzy Wójcik, based on Józef Hen’s novel and screenplay.
Access to both the meeting with Kazimierz Kutz and the film screening is free.
The films “Nobody Calls” (1960), Silesian Trilogy: “Salt of the Black Earth” (1969), “Pearl in the Crown” (1971) and “Beads of one Rosary” (1979); „Death as a Bread Slice” (1994) , and “Reverted” (1994) are the most prominent ones in his filmography. Kutz is not only a filmmaker, the director of over 20 films, but also a politician known for his colourful, down to the point statements. For us he is a goldmine of knowledge about the first years of the Lodz Film School, its professors and students who would later on be recognized as the representatives of the so called Polish School of Film. During the meeting at the school Kazimierz Kutz will read fragments of the book he is currently working on which recalls those people and those times.
Kutz wrote for Gazeta Wyborcza: “Andrzej Wajda passed away, and shortly after him, Tadeusz Chmielewski, the last colleague from my year in the Film School. The generation of film-makers from the “Polish School of Film” has gone completely. And it is me who will have the honour to turn the lights off after the first post-war generation of film-makers. As a matter of fact, I was the youngest of those who were admitted to the Film School and then were on the front line of filmmakers who would define the new aesthetic borders of Polish cinema. ” – („Kazimierz Kutz: Idzie czas ludojadów”, 7.01.2017).
During the meeting at the school, Kutz will receive the Golden “Bovver Boot”, the prize of Charlie Cinema and "Łódź Filmowa” Association, awarded to independent artists who in a consistent way oppose the trends present in pop culture, and who reveal and ridicule myths and stereotypes present in the mass imagination of the Poles.
Finally, Kazimierz Kutz’ Day at the Film School will finish with a screening of his film, "Nobody Calls” with photography by Jerzy Wójcik, based on Józef Hen’s novel and screenplay.
Access to both the meeting with Kazimierz Kutz and the film screening is free.