Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

Results found: 6

first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last

Search results

Search:
in the keywords:  Kazimierz Karabasz
help Sort By:

help Limit search:
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
EN
The People of Nowa Huta. Two films by Kazimierz Karabasz Nowa Huta, a symbol of a generation and significant place in the symbolic space of the Polish People’s Republic, was a character in newsreels, documentaries and films many times. The latter include two films by Kazimierz Karabasz: Shadow is Not Far (1984) and Memory (1985). In them Nowa Huta forms a setting for stories told about common people, yet it is also an important setting that determines their place in life, both in the past and in the present, regardless of whether they feel attached to it or rebel against it. Karabasz s heroes were people from Nowa Huta. They built it, and worked and lived in it. They were also shaped by its building. They are therefore also the people of Nowa Huta.
2
Publication available in full text mode
Content available

Kino Wolność (1990–2009)

100%
EN
The article deals with Polish cinema after the year 1989. Starting with the characteristics of Polish cinema before the period of transformations, the author continues with an analysis of the new cinema to distinguish four currents: “works of mourning” encompassing films which were meant as settling accounts or reconciliation with World War II and communism; “cinema of testimony” with special interest in films by Marcel Łoziński, but also mentioning others such as Kazimierz Karabasz and Jacek Blawut; “filmmakers young and old” based on three strategies of authorship, namely those of a fabulator (e.g. Krzysztof Kieślowski), a myth¬ biographer (e.g. Andrzej Kondratiuk, Marek Koterski and Marcin Koszałka), and an artist (e.g. Andrzej Barański, Dorota Kędzierzawska and Lech J. Majewski); and “popular cinema” with its four basic genres: action cinema, comedy, literary adaptation and romantic comedy.
EN
In his master’s thesis, Documentary Film and Reality, Krzysztof Kieślowski dealt with a number of problems that turned out to play a vital role in his future film career, and its documentary period in particular. This range of topics includes the concept of ‘the dramaturgy of reality’, one of the methods for factual filmmaking he intended to put into practice, but also such ideas as the relation between film and literature, between documentary film and ethics, and the difference between reportage and documentary filmmaking. These concepts had an influence on his documentary filmmaking andled him to develop other concepts and methods for documentary filmmaking. From the perspective of Kieślowski’s creative oeuvre, the thesis Documentary Film and Reality reads as a manifesto by the young filmmaker.
EN
The origins of particular documentary films are sometimes difficult to determine, precisely locate and capture in time and space. It is like searching for the source of a river. What marked the beginning of Intensity of Looking, a film about the great documentary film director Kazimierz Karabasz? The beginning of a documentary film’s creation determines the artistic process and elements that shape its strength, energy and main thought. These elements, which sometimes verge on intuition, guide this process, shaping the subject of the film, as well as its meaning, climate and aura. There is a thread connecting the author and the protagonist of the film, something that binds them together during work on the film, and sometimes lasts much longer. The three variants of what initiates the process of making a particular documentary film are as follows. The first is an encounter with a person who could be a character in a documentary film. The second is a thought, idea or problem that a filmmaker wants to address and discuss in a documentary by means of a certain character and story. The third is a return to a character who had been portrayed in a previous documentary film, to tell more about him or her. All three of these variants were the case in the making of Andrzej Sapija’s Intensity of Looking.
EN
Movie Director Exercise. Władysław Ślesicki and a Film School (1950–1955) The article discusses Władysław Ślesicki’s studies at the Lodz Film School (1950–1955). The years he spent at Film Directing Department were fruitful not only because of a few worth-while writings, but also due to some of his first directing experiences. Ślesicki was an assistant on the set of Kazimierz Karabasz’s school films, but he also directed his own (debut) short movies (the short feature Kawaler Kubiak; the short documentary Jedzie tabor). The claim is also made that these early works foreshadow his unique cinematic style, which Władysław Ślesicki developed especially within the documentary genre and which gave him a lasting place in the history of Polish cinema.
EN
The article analyses the particular interest that the documentary filmmakers of the late 1950s had in the architectural and urban issues. The reasons for this phenomenon are situated in several plans: they refer to the image of reconstruction from the war devastation and the reaction to its falsification in the period of socialist realism. They refer to the social interests of the filmmakers and to the strategy of metaphorising and allegorising the images of the city, which was handy in the times of censorship as it extended meanings and applied non-literality. The article analyses various film incarnations of this phenomenon.
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.