MARIAN MARZYNSKI - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER (Marian Marzynski. Autobiografia dokumentalisty)

• Authors: Jazdon Mikolaj
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to present the method and style of Marian Marzynski's documentary films. Marzynski is Polish-American filmmaker who explores his own biography in different ways in the documentaries that he makes. Jazdon presents the development of Marzynski's film career from cinema vérité docs made in Poland in the 1960s up, films that he made in Denmark - where he emigrated in the beginning of the 1970s (after the anti-Semitic actions undertaken by the communist government in Poland) and his American works - beginning with 'Return to Poland' (1981) up to the latest works like 'Settlement' (2008) and 'Skibet' (2010). Marzynski almost always appears in front of the camera in his films relating the theme from the film with his own biography of a Holocaust survival, immigrant, journalist or American citizen. He comments on the events presented in the film from off-screen and often initiates them. From film to film his works become more and more auto-documentaries up the docs rom recent years, such as Anya in and 'Out of Focus' (2004) or 'Life on Marz' (2007), with autobiography dominating in them.

Keywords

EN

AUTOBIOGRAPHISM; DOCUMENTARY; HOLOCAUST; MARZYNSKI MARIAN

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 73
• Pages: 42-52
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jazdon Mikolaj

• Mikolaj Jazdon, Zaklad Filmu i Telewizji Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, ul. Fredry 10, 67-701, Poznan, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA09684