NOT IN ENGLISH YET:The Story of a Short Story BY Patrycja Pustkowiak Literature Polish writers treat the short story genre as the spreading of wings before the proper flight into the bright skies of the novel. Yet in 2011 the market was flooded with short story anthologies. Suprisingly, there’s very little sex in it
EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS: Reading Lab BY Agnieszka Słodownik Literature The Reading Lab at the European Culture Congress (8-11 September 2011) is intended to pose a variety of questions concerning modern book shelves, storytelling and reading within the noise
New Horizons. International Competition BY Ludwika Mastalerz Film 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
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:O as in Zero BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media While existing institutions of culture or the media that transmit it may disappear, culture itself is here to stay
THE ABC OF NEW CULTURE:M as in Machinima BY Mirek Filiciak / Alek Tarkowski Media Art, like a particularly vigorous strain of bacteria, can now blossom in nearly every environment. Machinima is made precisely because it CAN be made – and because there are people willing to do so
Art On and Off Talk with Daniel Szczechura Film Many people mistake entertainment for art, and I myself am no longer interested in pure entertainment. When I watch a film I want to see behind what I see. I want to see the human being – Daniel Szczechura in an interview by Adriana Prodeus
Gdynia Film Festival.After the Verdict BY Michał Walkiewicz Film At the entrance to the screening room. “Entering?” I ask an elderly gentleman, anxious and not sure which way to pass him from. “Well, I’m a bit afraid, you know?” he says. Unfortunately, I do
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
