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Exploitation Cinema – we are going to explore the bizarre areas of cinema… We will also meet with Jacek Rokosz, author of the “Lost Souls – American Film Exploitation 1929–1959”.
Meeting on 13th of March at 19.00.
Jacek Rokosz, a graduate of the National Film School in Łódź, during the meeting in Film School Cinema will be talking about exploitation cinema movement. Productions that are today categorised according to the above mentioned term, were developed as American underground films, and few viewers could see them. Nowadays the exploitation film becomes a subject of research and dissertations, and Jacek Rokosz made it a main theme of his book. - „Lost Souls – American Film Exploitation 1929–1959”. On the 13th March at 19.00 viewers at the Film School’s Cinema will be able to watch production that serves as representative for exploitation films titled “Maniac” directed by Dwain Esper. The film tells a story of a mad scientist and his even more insane apprentice, who decides to kill his mentor and start to experiment on humans. The film is a mixture of humour and horror – shaken and… stirred.
During the time when Hollywood productions celebrated their greatest success and shaped the history of cinema, beyond the control of budget and outside the awareness of big stars a new genre developed that today is known as exploitation cinema – low budget productions, with dubious aesthetics, with plot holes, unconvincing dialogues and flat characters. However those films dealt with themes from which cinema at that time kept away. The film exploitation turned out to be a very bold movement, that gave up being fancy (but never stopped being glitzy) in favour of topics relating to drugs, alcohol, gender, racism, chauvinism, and human sexuality.
The filmmakers of that time, because of limited resources, were often falling into grotesque, using horror, soap opera or musical genre. The weirder, more indigestible for the audience was the final effect, the better - this kind of cinema was meant to shock with bravado, surprise and stay in the audience's mind, and not to be an idealized image of the world with love intrigues in the background. Challenging established norms and aesthetic rollercoaster - this is what representatives of exploitation cinema served for their viewers.
Meeting with Jacek Rokosz will be conducted by Kuba Mikurda.
Jacek Rokosz, a graduate of the National Film School in Łódź, during the meeting in Film School Cinema will be talking about exploitation cinema movement. Productions that are today categorised according to the above mentioned term, were developed as American underground films, and few viewers could see them. Nowadays the exploitation film becomes a subject of research and dissertations, and Jacek Rokosz made it a main theme of his book. - „Lost Souls – American Film Exploitation 1929–1959”. On the 13th March at 19.00 viewers at the Film School’s Cinema will be able to watch production that serves as representative for exploitation films titled “Maniac” directed by Dwain Esper. The film tells a story of a mad scientist and his even more insane apprentice, who decides to kill his mentor and start to experiment on humans. The film is a mixture of humour and horror – shaken and… stirred.
During the time when Hollywood productions celebrated their greatest success and shaped the history of cinema, beyond the control of budget and outside the awareness of big stars a new genre developed that today is known as exploitation cinema – low budget productions, with dubious aesthetics, with plot holes, unconvincing dialogues and flat characters. However those films dealt with themes from which cinema at that time kept away. The film exploitation turned out to be a very bold movement, that gave up being fancy (but never stopped being glitzy) in favour of topics relating to drugs, alcohol, gender, racism, chauvinism, and human sexuality.
The filmmakers of that time, because of limited resources, were often falling into grotesque, using horror, soap opera or musical genre. The weirder, more indigestible for the audience was the final effect, the better - this kind of cinema was meant to shock with bravado, surprise and stay in the audience's mind, and not to be an idealized image of the world with love intrigues in the background. Challenging established norms and aesthetic rollercoaster - this is what representatives of exploitation cinema served for their viewers.
Meeting with Jacek Rokosz will be conducted by Kuba Mikurda.