BOREDOM in Critical Condition BY Bartosz Żurawiecki Film Boredom desacralizes. It reveals the void, monotony, and banality behind the surface of the decorations and under the illusion of attraction. But where does this revelation happen? Does it happen in what we’re watching? Or does it happen inside of us?
Big Top Cinema: The Two Riversides Festival of Art and Film BY Jakub Socha Film Movies often take second stage to meetings with the people behind the films. Audiences eagerly participate in the dialogue; there’s no ironic smirking
BEFORE THE EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS:Listening is an Art Talk with Patryk Zakrocki Music Have you ever tried closing your eyes during a screening just to check how much of the story you can glean from sound alone in a visual medium?
Political Gambit BY Michał Oleszczyk Literature Political Critique and their debate on film unwittingly revealed just how much anti-intellectualism still exists among the Polish artistic elite
Guerrilla Filmmaker Talk with Przemysław Wojcieszek Talks If Polish cinema wasn’t infantile, films would have to pose questions that would stir the masses of consumers out of their lethargy
NOT IN ENGLISH YET: Polish Cinema 1989-2009. A Critical History BY Grzegorz Wysocki Film The essays’ authors not only encourage Polish filmmakers to stand at the gates and start a revolution, but also often put them against the wall with the aim of executing them
PHOTOGRAPHY, STILLS& GNASH: 3D or not 3D? BY Chris Niedenthal Art 3D has been around now for almost a hundred and sixty years. Introduced to the public at London’s 1851 World Exhibition, Queen Victoria loved it
An Empty Bed BY Rafał Marszałek Film The author demands the audience’s absolute concentration. A moment of inattention would deal a deadly blow to the viewer’s perception of The Forest. And, to a certain extent, to the ambition of Dumała himself
You Have to Be Ruthless Talk with Michał Chaciński Film Great works aren’t a result of great tools but the fact that these tools are used by great artists
An Atlas of Polish Cinema BY Paulina Kwiatkowska Film Andrzej Wajda does a great job controlling his fear of death – but a much poorer one controlling his fear of error
