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"Embarrassing, rejected, scrutinized again" writes Monika Talarczyk-Gubała, the author of the first monograph on Wanda Jakubowska.
The book promotion meeting will take place at the Lodz Film School Cinema on 19th, February.
"It is a valuable monograph, which should have been written earlier" – admits Prof. Tadeusz Lubelski in the monograph’s review. Monika Talaczyk-Gubała – a film historian and theoretician, researcher of female film-makers’ work, undertook the task to present Wanda Jakubowska, a film-director and former Lodz Film School professor, who is called the Mother of Polish Cinema. Wanda Jakubowska is one of the most important female film-makers not only in the Polish cinema. In contemporary English language publications about the world cinema her name is mentioned next to those of Orson Welles and Agnieszka Holland. The film "Ostatni etap" (Last Stage), presenting womens’ camp martyrology, which was based on director’s own memories from Auschwitz, was the first post-war film about this subject to echo widely across the world. Wanda Jakubowska was one of the first professors at the Lodz Film School together with Antoni Bohdziewicz, Jerzy Toeplitz and Jerzy Bossak. She took part in creating film structures in Poland. She was a co-founder of the Artistic Film Fans Association "Start" (1930), and the artistic director of the film production units: ZAF (1948-49) and "Start" (1955-1968), and also a Lodz Film School professor (1949-74). Her professional career comprises two film époques: pre-war and post-war, avant-garde and social realism. For many, however, she still remains a controversial person, and many of her artistic choices disputable.
- "Od nowa" in an attempt to understand the significant greatness of Wanda Jakubowska whose life nearly covered the whole 20th century. – says the monograph’s author. Monika Talarczyk Gubała viewed the director’s private archive, spoke to the members of her family and people who worked with her, and read what had been written about Wanda Jakubowska in Poland and abroad. The author provides a new insight into Jakubowska’s films in the context of the director’s biography and other films released in those years, thus drawing attention to films which have been recognized as lost, unimportant or simply bad. At the same time, she points in the direction of less known film directors who worked in the shadow of Wanda Jakubowska.
The Lodz Film School and Krytyka Polityczna, the publisher of Monika Talarczyk –Gubała’s book "Wanda Jakubowska. Od nowa", invite to a book promotion meeting which will take place at the Lodz Film School Cinema on 19, February at 7 p.m. The meeting is free of charge.
"It is a valuable monograph, which should have been written earlier" – admits Prof. Tadeusz Lubelski in the monograph’s review. Monika Talaczyk-Gubała – a film historian and theoretician, researcher of female film-makers’ work, undertook the task to present Wanda Jakubowska, a film-director and former Lodz Film School professor, who is called the Mother of Polish Cinema. Wanda Jakubowska is one of the most important female film-makers not only in the Polish cinema. In contemporary English language publications about the world cinema her name is mentioned next to those of Orson Welles and Agnieszka Holland. The film "Ostatni etap" (Last Stage), presenting womens’ camp martyrology, which was based on director’s own memories from Auschwitz, was the first post-war film about this subject to echo widely across the world. Wanda Jakubowska was one of the first professors at the Lodz Film School together with Antoni Bohdziewicz, Jerzy Toeplitz and Jerzy Bossak. She took part in creating film structures in Poland. She was a co-founder of the Artistic Film Fans Association "Start" (1930), and the artistic director of the film production units: ZAF (1948-49) and "Start" (1955-1968), and also a Lodz Film School professor (1949-74). Her professional career comprises two film époques: pre-war and post-war, avant-garde and social realism. For many, however, she still remains a controversial person, and many of her artistic choices disputable.
- "Od nowa" in an attempt to understand the significant greatness of Wanda Jakubowska whose life nearly covered the whole 20th century. – says the monograph’s author. Monika Talarczyk Gubała viewed the director’s private archive, spoke to the members of her family and people who worked with her, and read what had been written about Wanda Jakubowska in Poland and abroad. The author provides a new insight into Jakubowska’s films in the context of the director’s biography and other films released in those years, thus drawing attention to films which have been recognized as lost, unimportant or simply bad. At the same time, she points in the direction of less known film directors who worked in the shadow of Wanda Jakubowska.
The Lodz Film School and Krytyka Polityczna, the publisher of Monika Talarczyk –Gubała’s book "Wanda Jakubowska. Od nowa", invite to a book promotion meeting which will take place at the Lodz Film School Cinema on 19, February at 7 p.m. The meeting is free of charge.