Workshop of the film form = Warsztat formy filmowej / edited by Marika Kuzmicz, Łukasz Ronduda ; texts: George Clark [and 5 others] ; translation: Łukasz Mojsak [and 4 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, George, compiler.

Kuźmicz, Marika, editor.

Ronduda, Łukasz, editor.

Language:

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Warsztat Formy Filmowej--History--Exhibitions.

Warsztat Formy Filmowej.

Experimental films--Poland--Exhibitions.

Experimental films.

Motion pictures--Poland--Exhibitions.

Motion pictures.

Poland.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

394 pages : photographs (some color) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Warsztat formy filmowej

Place of Publication:

Warsaw : Arton Foundation ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2017]

Language Note:

Parallel texts in English and Polish.

Summary:

'Workshop of the Film Form' provides an in-depth overview of the achievements of Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WWF; Workshop of the Film Form), a group of avant-garde artists who were working at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland, between 1970 and 1977. WWF was founded by the students and graduates of the school, now known as the National Film School, and included: Wojciech Bruszewski, Pawel Kwiek, Andrzej Rózycki, Józef Robakowski, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Antoni Mikolajczyk, Janusz Polom, and Ryszard Wasko. As pioneers of video art in Poland and structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe, the artists refused classical narrative and traditional film media, working instead somewhere between cinematography and contemporary art. This publication examines all aspects of WFF's activity, from their films, photographic experiments, video art, and performative actions to their teaching work, which includes previously unexplored pedagogical contributions to the National Film School. Drawing on the private archives and oral testimonies of the WWF, 'Workshop of the Film Form' attempts to provide a full account of the group's history as well as a comprehensive survey of each member's practice. The writers who were invited to respond to the WWF for this book provide insightful new readings of the group's output and activities, contextualizing their work in the history of the prewar Polish avant-garde and the politics of experimental filmmaking in Poland under the rule of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR).

Contents:

Works

Workshop of the Film Form / Marika Kuźmicz

Tautological cinema: some notes on self-evidence in the Workshop of the Film Form / Mike Sperlinger

'The place of our dreams': Łódź Film School and the Workshop of the Film Form / Maeve Connolly

Workshop of the Film Form or the Coalition of Art Workers in a workers' state / Łukasz Ronduda

Contact with the Polish avant-garde guaranteed: modes of exchange in the Workshop of the Film form / George Clark

Gestures towards a new life: the avant-garde as a historical provocation / Jan Verwoert

Biographies.

ISBN:

9788393802937

8393802938

9783956793110

3956793110

OCLC:

994867184

Publisher Number:

9788393802937