ALFIERI SUNDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 1ST - PROGRAMME
5:30 pm
The Visit
by Marcel Łoziński
Poland, 1974, 16’, o.v. Ita. sub. / Eng. Sub.
A journalist and a photo-reporter tread on paths winding through farms, fields, and stables in search of a young woman farmer who lives alone with her old mother. M. Łozinski reflects on his work as documentary film-maker and story-teller, but – possibly for the first time – with this short film he virtually shifts the focus onto the margins of official representation, the countryside, letting the city, the modern country slip away, off screen.
With the director in-person
So It Doesn’t Hurt
by Marcel Łoziński
Poland, 1998, 47’, o.v. Ita. sub. / Eng. sub.
1997, more than twenty years since M. Łozinski first visited Urszula Flis, who “starred” in The Visit (Wizyta). M. Łozinski, who likes to re-film and re-edit ma terials from the past, is still standing behind the camera. This time, though, he interacts openly with his protagonist, and reconstructs a virtual shot and reverse shot of their dialogue.
With the director in-person
7 pm
Matriculation
by Marcel Łoziński
Poland, 1978, 17’, o.v. Ita. sub. / Eng. sub.
Which is the best point of view to discuss and describe the Polish educational system? At the turn of the 1970’s, M. Łozinski chose to be like an invisible eye among the young students who were about to take their school-leaving examination. He recorded comments and accounts in-between the exams, students sharing their projects and expectations, interviews with the professors, political and institutional questions, and embarrassed, amused, uncertain answers.
With the director in-person
Seven Jews From My Class
by Marcel Łoziński
Poland, 1992, 40’, o.v. Ita. sub. / Eng. sub.
The director meets with seven classmates who had to leave Poland because of the 1968 anti-Semitic witch-hunt.
With the director in-person