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Direction
On 6, March (Wedn.), we invite you to the School Cinema, where we will celebrate the 98th anniversary of Andrzej Wajda’s birthday, Andrzej Wajda is one of the most outstanding graduates of our School.
We invite you to the School Cinema (Rectorate's Building, 1st floor) on Wednesday, 6, March, from 12.00 to 15.40.
The programme includes:
12:00 - IMAGINED PROMOTION. NEW TRAILERS FOR ANDRZEJ WAJDA
documentary essay- duration 48'
dir. Małgorzata Świderska
13:00 – MEETING WITH THE FILM’S DIRECTOR dr MAŁGORZATA ŚWIDERSKA
host: Monika Talarczyk, PhD
14:00 – INNOCENT SORCERERS
feature film - duration 83'
dir. Andrzeja Wajda
The documentary essay "Imagined Promotion. New Trailers for Andrzej Wajda" attempts to create an alternative reality in which trailers for Andrzej Wajda's early films are created and shown in cinemas. We will see trailers for seven films directed by Andrzej Wajda: "The Sewer", "Ashes and Diamonds", "Innocent Sorcerers", "The Ashes", "Everything for Sale", "The Promised Land" and "Man of Marble". The trailers were made in a historical context and correspond to the global genre trends that were prevalent when the films were made in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. "Imagined Promotion..." has several perceptual levels and is a pill of knowledge about the global history of trailers, and the clips from Andrzej Wajda's films woven into it show what trailers and cinema teasers could have looked like if, in the times of the Polish People's Republic, distribution campaigns such as those in the United States or Western Europe had been carried out. The film is the artistic part of the doctorate exam that Małgorzata Świderska passed at our School last year.
After the screening, we invite you to discuss Andrzej Wajda, his films and their trailers, and the process of making the documentary essay in the form of a desktop movie. The meeting with the author of the film will be run by a Professor of our School, Monika Talarczyk.
After the meeting, at 14:00, we invite you to the screening of the restored version of the film "Innocent Sorcerers" directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Andrzej Wajda said of his work: "Innocent Sorcerers" is probably one of the most politically neutral films I have ever made. However, the authorities from Gomułka's times assessed it completely differently. The innocent topic of a young doctor who likes elastic socks and good cigarettes, has a tape recorder and records his conversations with girls on it, and whose only passion is playing drums in Krzysztof Komeda's jazz band, turned out to be more sensitive to ideologists-educators than the Home Army and the Warsaw uprising." The film sparked a wide social discussion. The reviews after its premiere were extremely different, ranging from attacking to supportive. This did not prevent "Innocent Wizards" from winning a diploma at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1961.
The programme includes:
12:00 - IMAGINED PROMOTION. NEW TRAILERS FOR ANDRZEJ WAJDA
documentary essay- duration 48'
dir. Małgorzata Świderska
13:00 – MEETING WITH THE FILM’S DIRECTOR dr MAŁGORZATA ŚWIDERSKA
host: Monika Talarczyk, PhD
14:00 – INNOCENT SORCERERS
feature film - duration 83'
dir. Andrzeja Wajda
The documentary essay "Imagined Promotion. New Trailers for Andrzej Wajda" attempts to create an alternative reality in which trailers for Andrzej Wajda's early films are created and shown in cinemas. We will see trailers for seven films directed by Andrzej Wajda: "The Sewer", "Ashes and Diamonds", "Innocent Sorcerers", "The Ashes", "Everything for Sale", "The Promised Land" and "Man of Marble". The trailers were made in a historical context and correspond to the global genre trends that were prevalent when the films were made in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. "Imagined Promotion..." has several perceptual levels and is a pill of knowledge about the global history of trailers, and the clips from Andrzej Wajda's films woven into it show what trailers and cinema teasers could have looked like if, in the times of the Polish People's Republic, distribution campaigns such as those in the United States or Western Europe had been carried out. The film is the artistic part of the doctorate exam that Małgorzata Świderska passed at our School last year.
After the screening, we invite you to discuss Andrzej Wajda, his films and their trailers, and the process of making the documentary essay in the form of a desktop movie. The meeting with the author of the film will be run by a Professor of our School, Monika Talarczyk.
After the meeting, at 14:00, we invite you to the screening of the restored version of the film "Innocent Sorcerers" directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Andrzej Wajda said of his work: "Innocent Sorcerers" is probably one of the most politically neutral films I have ever made. However, the authorities from Gomułka's times assessed it completely differently. The innocent topic of a young doctor who likes elastic socks and good cigarettes, has a tape recorder and records his conversations with girls on it, and whose only passion is playing drums in Krzysztof Komeda's jazz band, turned out to be more sensitive to ideologists-educators than the Home Army and the Warsaw uprising." The film sparked a wide social discussion. The reviews after its premiere were extremely different, ranging from attacking to supportive. This did not prevent "Innocent Wizards" from winning a diploma at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1961.