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We invite you to the launch of the book PORUSZYĆ MILIONY. KINO JERZEGO BOSSAKA, a monograph on Jerzy Bossak’s films written by Marek Cieśliński.
The launch meeting with the author, Marek Cieśliński will take place on 23, November (Thursday) at 4:00 p.m. at the Film School Cinema (Rectorate Building).
The host of the meeting will be Dr. Jarosław Grzechowiak.
The programme also includes:
a screening of the film „Bossak. Chronicle of Film Accidents” (2010),
duration - 67 min
directed by Małgorzata Burzyńska-Keller,
cinematography and production, Józef Romasz.
Patronage of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Society for Film and Media Research
Marek Cieśliński's work is an important biographical monograph revealing for the first time the entire richness of Jerzy Bossak's creative life. The author showed substantiveness, respect for his hero, his scientific predecessors, and, finally, for documentary films. With great inventiveness, he described Bossak's creative genius, his social roots and dedication to the idea of creating cinema that develops people in the community.
The author carefully selects political and socio-cultural contexts that confirm Bossak's countless initiatives for the development of Polish film and the impact of film on society. On the one hand, he mythologizes the character, and on the other, he tries to approach with a distance but also with understanding his conformist statements (i.e. attempts to "fraternize" with the authorities) and decisions, the price of which was the opportunity to develop one's own career as a filmmaker in socialist Poland. Particularly important are the fragments in which Cieśliński's doubts and reflections on Bossak's attitudes appear that may disturb the imagined image of the filmmaker. The author discreetly provides the reader with quotes, references to the opinions of others and his own comments, which are, at least to some extent, intended to express understanding of Bossak's behaviour in ethically and morally ambiguous situations, but he does not deny historical facts.
The book published by Lodz Film School Publishing House and University of Łódź is available in our bookstore. ksiegarnia.filmschool.lodz.pl
The publication was carried out as part of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
The publication was co-financed by the Polish Filmmakers Association.
The cover uses a photo of Jerzy Bossak from 1948, photo Edward Hartwig / FINA
The programme also includes:
a screening of the film „Bossak. Chronicle of Film Accidents” (2010),
duration - 67 min
directed by Małgorzata Burzyńska-Keller,
cinematography and production, Józef Romasz.
Patronage of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Society for Film and Media Research
Marek Cieśliński's work is an important biographical monograph revealing for the first time the entire richness of Jerzy Bossak's creative life. The author showed substantiveness, respect for his hero, his scientific predecessors, and, finally, for documentary films. With great inventiveness, he described Bossak's creative genius, his social roots and dedication to the idea of creating cinema that develops people in the community.
The author carefully selects political and socio-cultural contexts that confirm Bossak's countless initiatives for the development of Polish film and the impact of film on society. On the one hand, he mythologizes the character, and on the other, he tries to approach with a distance but also with understanding his conformist statements (i.e. attempts to "fraternize" with the authorities) and decisions, the price of which was the opportunity to develop one's own career as a filmmaker in socialist Poland. Particularly important are the fragments in which Cieśliński's doubts and reflections on Bossak's attitudes appear that may disturb the imagined image of the filmmaker. The author discreetly provides the reader with quotes, references to the opinions of others and his own comments, which are, at least to some extent, intended to express understanding of Bossak's behaviour in ethically and morally ambiguous situations, but he does not deny historical facts.
The book published by Lodz Film School Publishing House and University of Łódź is available in our bookstore. ksiegarnia.filmschool.lodz.pl
The publication was carried out as part of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
The publication was co-financed by the Polish Filmmakers Association.
The cover uses a photo of Jerzy Bossak from 1948, photo Edward Hartwig / FINA