Short Stop in Lithuania BY John BiweeklyIntro Will Poland take example of its neighbour and one day reach this beautiful state of no-billboards-on-top-of-other-billboards?
Big Top Cinema: The Two Riversides Festival of Art and Film BY Jakub SochaFilm Movies often take second stage to meetings with the people behind the films. Audiences eagerly participate in the dialogue; there’s no ironic smirking
New Horizons. International Competition BY Ludwika MastalerzFilm The film I was rooting for the most was Daniel Cockburn’s ‘You Are Here’. This eclectic picture is an amusing crash-course in analytical philosophy
Autumn with(out) a Keyboard BY Adam WiedemannMusic I felt really sorry for Reinbert de Leeuw, who actually got so carried away in his mechanical conducting that the score fell from the stand. I’d have preferred to listen to the old ‘Rite of Spring’ under his baton. No revolution took place during this year’s Warsaw Autumn
Access Denied BY John BiweeklyIntro Another important happening worth mentioning took place this summer. MediaLab in Chrzelice, in the Southwest of Poland, was a series of workshops organised by Biweekly columnists Mirek Filiciak and Alek Tarkowski, and the Ortus Foundation
Classical Documentary– The Time is Now BY Błażej HrapkowiczFilm The Kraków Film Festival avoids indulging in shameless self-promotion. You won’t hear the level-headed organisers brazenly trumpeting their accomplishments or the list of directors featured at this year’s festival. They just organise the festival. And they do it exceptionally well
13th New Tradition festival BY Agata Diduszko-ZyglewskaMusic The strength of the creators of New Tradition resides in the fact that they have consistently pursued two separate approaches to folk music. In the Roots Music section, they demonstrate the power of traditional performances, whereas in the competition section they welcome far-reaching artistic experiments
