Presented by The Museum of the Moving Image
in collaboration with The Polish Cultural Institute New York
and The Polish Film Institute

Friday, October 7, 2016 – Sunday, November 6, 2016

Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue (at 37 Street)
Astoria, NY 11106

Tickets: $12 ($9 seniors and students / free for Museum members)  
This retrospective of the acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski‘s features, short films, and documentaries commemorates the 20th anniversary of the director’s untimely death and coincides with the theatrical release of a new digital restoration of his epic masterwork The Decalogue (1988). The series will also feature a marathon screening of The Decalogue, and four posthumous works based on unproduced screenplays by Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz: Heaven by Tom Tykver, Hell by Danis Tanovic, Purgatory by Stanislaw Mucha, and Big Animal by Jerzy Stuhr.

From his earliest documentations of Polish factory life to his first forays into psychological portraiture, and from the religious-existential gambits of his Solidarity-era features to the star-studded festival favorites that cemented him as one of the most important filmmakers of the 1990s, Kieslowski was always drawn to the infinite, sometimes absurd, other times infuriating, complexities of our lives. Kieslowski made films for television long before it was fashionable. And he didn’t make ordinary television: he made The Decalogue, arguably the greatest TV miniseries of all time. And long before Hollywood movies were required to have franchise potential, his Three Colors trilogy was an arthouse juggernaut, setting three international movie stars Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, and Irene Jacob into a loosely interconnected cycle that mirrored the challenges of European unification–challenges that continue today.

The opening night screening of The Double Life of Veronique will be introduced by Annette Insdorf, and followed by a reception.

Krzysztof Kieslowski (19411996) best known for his internationally acclaimed 1990s films The Double Life of Veronique and the Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, and Red, was a graduate of the prestigious Lodz Film School and started his career in television with documentaries and dramas that captured the daily lives of working class people. At the height of his career (and sadly at the end of his life), he was admired worldwide for his emotionally haunting, visually sumptuous moral dramas of modern life, epitomized by the Three Colors Trilogy.

Special thanks to TOR Studio, National Film Archives, Documentary and Feature Film Studios (WFDiF), National School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Polish TV, Digital Film Repository (CRF).

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