Screening

Landscape of Singularity: Women in the Documentary Film

Saturday, May 31 13:00 / Kino Pod Baranami Blue Room / ′

Rynek Główny 27, 31-010 Kraków
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Landscape of Singularity: Women in the Documentary Film

The programme prepared by FINA – the National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute focuses on women’s experience as seen from the perspective of both female characters and filmmakers. It shows young girls along with adult women struggling with everyday life, work and social expectations. Such films as ‘Gucia’, ‘Krystyna M.’ or ‘Day by Day’ show a grey, monotonous reality, full of uncertainty and challenges. They are tied together by ‘Colour’ and ‘Painting’ – two poetic, artistic visions offering an escape from rejection, misunderstanding or creative impotence, and at the same time making an attempt to regain voice and space for oneself. Documentaries made by such masters of Polish cinema as Kazimierz Karabasz, Irena Kamieńska, Bogdan Dziworski, Jadwiga Kędzierzawska and her daughter, Dorota Kędzierzawska, combine sensitivity, intimacy and a poetic form, revealing the world hidden behind routine and silence. Tickets apply Partner: FINA – the National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute

List of films

  • Krystyna M.

    Kazimierz Karabasz
    doc1973

    "The master of Polish documentary filmmaking paints a tender portrayal of adolescent Krystyna, showing her daily life filled with work and the clash between dreams and reality. ‘Krystyna M.’ is an intimate sketch about growing up, ambitions and limitations inscribed in social roles and professional hierarchies."

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    film still Krystyna M.

  • Painting

    Bogdan Dziworski
    doc1979

    "In this praise of the act of creation based on glimpses and minutiae of existence, almost every frame becomes an image leading inside the protagonist. The state of impotence and powerlessness can be felt in the gaze, fills the thoughts, and turns the eyes towards objects. Bogdan Dziworski’s film is a remarkably sonorous, visual lullaby about the inability to create and the approaching breakthrough."

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    film still Painting

  • Colour

    Jadwiga Kędzierzawska
    doc1982

    A peculiar story about childhood, play and a world full of magic, as seen through the eyes of a few-year-old girl excluded from her peer group. Jadwiga Kędzierzawska leads us through a sunburnt river, forest and city, creating a colourful journey into the world of a child’s imagination.

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    film still Colour

  • Gucia

    Dorota Kędzierzawska
    doc1985

    Seven-year-old Tom, disappointed by the behaviour of Gucia, a girl his age, offers to turn her into a boy, Peter, with whom he will get along better. The story told by Dorota Kędzierzawska forty years ago shows that expectations and ideas about sexuality and one’s role in society emerge very early in our lives.

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    film still Gucia

  • Day by Day

    Irena Kamieńska
    doc1989

    "Grey landscape and brick dust are the everyday life of two sisters working at Transbud. Irena Kamieńska’s film shows their monotonous labour, memories of youth and struggles with the communist reality. A poignant picture of life dominated by fatigue – day by day, brick by brick."

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    film still Day by Day