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IN-PERSON SCREENINGS <\/strong>Thursday, May 16 \u2013 Monday, May 20
ONLINE <\/strong>Thursday, May 16 \u2013 Thursday, June 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Segal Theatre<\/strong><\/a>
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER
365 5th Ave, New York, 10016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\u00a0the full lineup and details,<\/strong> see here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The festival is free of charge. The in-person screenings require registering in advance. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IN FESTIVAL’S LINE UP THERE WILL BE FOUR POLISH FILMS: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Premiere of<\/strong> Maria Klassenberg<\/em><\/strong> by Oscar nominated Magda Hueckel<\/strong> and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

US Premiere<\/strong> of Revolution 21<\/em><\/strong> by Martyna Peszko<\/strong> and Teatr 21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hamlet Syndrom<\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>by Elwira Niewiera <\/strong>and Piotr Rosolowski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Books of Jacob<\/em><\/strong> by Krzysztof Garbaczewski<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP)<\/strong> is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From its inaugural edition in 2015 to its present-day The Segal Film Festival for Theatre and Performance (FTP) has served as a platform for recorded works that span the length and breadth of the performing arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Festival Founder and Executive Director of the Martin E. Segal Theater Center, Frank Hentschker shares his inspiration for creating the festival: \u201cFilm and digital media are an integral part of theatre and performance. I am surprised that there is not a film festival out there right now focusing on theatre and performance. I thought \u2018why not create one\u2019?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the time before Corona, the Segal Film Festival had evolved into the premier US event for new film and video work focusing on theatre and performance. Its mission was to invite experimental and established theatre makers to present work created for the screen \u2013 not filmed archival recordings \u2013 to audiences and industry professionals from around the world. Now, after a year and a half of digital and hybrid theatre offerings, the festival must take on a new meaning. The festival has held on to its mission of being a free and open-to-all event accessible to everyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8th edition of the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP), co-curated by Frank Hentschker (Executive Director, The Martin E. Segal Theater Center) and Tomek Smolarski (Film and Performing Arts Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute NY) will be held in person May 16th<\/sup>-20th<\/sup>, and online from May 16th<\/sup>– June 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, May 16 at 8 PM<\/strong>
Maria Klassenberg<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Oscar nominated Magda Hueckel<\/strong> and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski<\/strong> \u2013 The World Premiere<\/strong> This film will be screened in-person on May 16th and also be available to watch online May 16th onwards for 3 weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film created by the Academy Award nominees: Magda Hueckel and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski is a biographical
mockumentary about Maria Klassenberg, a forgotten pioneer of performance art. All of her life the artist has created and presented her works in her apartment in Warsaw. The action of the film takes place at the opening of an exhibition, where the artist\u2019s radical works from the \u201870s and the \u201880s, that up to that point had been seen by the family and friends only, are presented to the wider audience for the first time. The moment Maria Klassenberg\u2019s works finally are discovered by the art world is at the same time the culmination of her personal conflict with her daughter -Aneta Klassenberg, the curator of the exhibition. For Aneta, Maria\u2019s exhibition is a compensation for the lost childhood and the only way to rebuild a close relationship with her mother. The unsettled past shared by the mother and daughter becomes the artist\u2019s final work. Maria Klassenberg has never existed, which doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s not real. She represents all
female artists who haven\u2019t had a chance to make their mark on the art market controlled by men. Her biography and artistic portfolio has been created by a group of Polish theatre and visual art artists: the concept and the very character of Maria Klassenberg has been created by Katarzyna Kalwat (theatre director), with the help form Anda Rottenberg (a curator and one of the protagonists of the film) and Joanna Zieli\u0144ska, and the archive of the artist\u2019s works from the \u201870s and the \u201880s has been developed by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga. The film features fragments of famous performances from the 20th century, that resonate with Klassenberg\u2019s works. On the one hand this documentary is an artistic recording of the performance-exhibition directed by Katarzyna Kalwat but on the other hand it\u2019s a provocation attempt: how will the modern world of art, which declares gender equity, react to a fictitious female artist who combines in her works feministic motifs found in the 20th century art?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, May 20 at 6:45 PM<\/strong>
Revolution 21<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Martyna Peszko<\/strong> and Teatr 21<\/strong> \u2013 US PREMIERE<\/strong> \u2013 In Person screening<\/strong>
TRAILER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the film \u201cRevolution 21\u201d we are introduced to Theatre 21, a Warsaw-based professional theatre group which has been staging performances for the last 17 years. Founded by Justyna Sobczyk, a theatre teacher and director, it consists solely of actors with Down syndrome. They start work on a new performance entitled \u201cA Revolution Which Never Was There\u201d, using the protest of the disabled in Polish parliament as their inspiration. Able-bodied actors are also invited to take part in the performance. Nobody receives any special treatment. Full commitment is required from each member of the cast, everyone is treated equally. The work model in Teatr 21 is very innovative. Most of the rehearsals rely on acting improvisations on the subject set by the director (revolution, sexuality, independence, political cabaret, rehabilitation, etc.), accompanied by live music written by the band POKUSA. This working process arouses heated discussions between the actors on the subject of nudity on stage, the involvement of theatre in politics, the limits of privacy and the courage to ridicule themselves on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, May 20 at 7:50 PM<\/strong>
The Hamlet Syndrome<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Elwira Niewiera <\/strong>and Piotr Rosolowski<\/strong> \u2013 In Person Screening
TRAILER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few months prior to Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, five young women and men participate in a unique stage production that attempts to relate their war experiences to Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet. For each of them, the stage is a platform to express their grief and trauma through the famous question, \u201cto be or not to be,\u201d a dilemma that applies to their ow lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Books of Jacob<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Krzysztof Garbaczewski<\/strong> \u2013 ONLINE ONLY<\/strong>     
This film will be available to watch online on the festival website May 16th onwards for 3 weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

La MaMa and CultureHub in association with the Polish Cultural Institute New York present The Books of Jacob by Dream Adoption Society, a digital laboratory led by Krzysztof Garbaczewski. The Books of Jacob is inspired by Olga Tokarczuk’s Nobel prize-winning novel of the same name which explores the historical events surrounding Jacob Frank, a man who claimed to be the reincarnation of Sabbatai Zevi. In front of a live audience, Garbaczewski creates a hybrid theatre and virtual reality experience that delves into the ideas and relevance of Jacob’s transformative religious movement in 18th Century Europe.
The Books of Jacob is produced within CultureHub and La MaMa\u2019s Experiments in Digital Storytelling program, which incubates story-driven artworks that push the boundaries of artistic forms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Magda Hueckel<\/strong> a visual artist, set designer, scriptwriter, creator of documentaries, and theatre photographer. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Design of the Fine Arts Academy in Gda\u0144sk. Her works have been presented at over 40 individual and over 60 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad (including Tate Britain in London, Circulation in Paris, Unseen Amsterdam, Vienna Art Fair). Her works can be found in the National Museum in Wroc\u0142aw and in numerous private collections. Hueckel is the author of \u201cAnima. Pictures from Africa 2005\u20132013\u201d and \u201cHUECKEL\/THEATRE\u201d (nominations for the 2014 and 2016 Photographic Publication of the Year Awards). She has documented a few hundred theatre performances. Hueckel was awarded scholarships by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Sopot and she\u2019s a laureate of the Sopot Muse for Young Artists award. From 2002 until 2004 she was a part of the photographic duo known as hueckelserafin, together with Agata Serafin. She is the Chairwoman and co-founder of the CCHS Foundation of Poland \u201cLift the Curse\u201d, which was awarded EURORDIS Black Pearl Award 2020. Hueckel is the curator and producer of the\u201cOndinata. Songs for Ondine\u201d project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski<\/strong>, director and scriptwriter. Graduate of the Directing Department at the Warsaw Film School and Feature Development Lab Programme at the Wajda School. His short movie \u201cOur Curse\u201d (2013) has won many prizes at film festivals all over the world and was nominated for the IDA Award granted by the International Documentary Association. He is a laureate of the \u201cYoung Poland\u201d Scholarship Programme (2015) awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and a scholarship awarded by the City of Warsaw (2019). \u015aliwi\u0144ski is a member of the Documentary Directors Guild of Poland and the Vice President of CCHS Foundation of Poland \u201cLift the Curse\u201d. He is the co-curator and producer of a music project \u201cOndinata. Songs for Ondine\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Magdalena Hueckel<\/strong> and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski<\/strong> often collaborate on the production of films and artistic projects – Magda Hueckel writes the scripts and is the art director, and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski is the director. Their documentary \u201cOur Curse\u201d was nominated for the Academy Award and won a few dozen awards at international festivals. Hueckel and \u015aliwi\u0144ski created together a short film \u201cOndine\u201d (2019) and short film series titled \u201cPlague Chronicles\u201d (2020). The series won the main prize at the DIG IT contest for the best theatrical activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their last production was \u201cStary\u201d – the documentary about the National Stary Theatre in Cracow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Katarzyna Kalwat<\/strong>, director, graduate of Psychology Faculty at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the Directing Department at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, holder of scholarships granted by the French Government. Her works often originate from archive explorations and focus on researching the mechanisms of memory and postmemory. She directed a performance titled \u201cHolzwege\u201d (produced by TR Warszawa, 2016), which won the Grand Prix at the 22nd National Competition for Staging Contemporary Polish Plays, and \u201cReykjavik \u201974\u201d (The Wilam Horzyca Theatre in Toru\u0144, 2017), which won the Second Prize at the 19th National Festival of Directing Art
\u201cInterpretations\u201d in Katowice. The director is interested in processual forms, works that combine various fields of art, and researching the common ground between performance art and theatre. Katarzyna Kalwat has directed many theatre performances including, among others: \u201cLandschaft. Anatomy Lesson\u201d based on Waronika Murek\u2019s text (The Julius S\u0142owacki Theatre in Cracow, 2017), \u201cGrotowski nonfiction\u201d created in cooperation with the visual artist Zbigniew Libera (Contemporary Theatre in Wroclaw and the Jan Kochanowski Theatre in Opole, 2019), an opera composed by Wojtek Blecharz, titled \u201cRechnitz. The Exterminating Angel\u201d based on a drama by the Nobel Prize winner \u2013 Elfriede Jelinek (TR Warszawa, 2019), \u201cStaff Only\u201d project created in cooperation with foreign artists living in Poland (coproduced by Biennale Warszawa and TR Warszawa), \u201cReturn to Reims\u201d inspired by Didier Eribon\u2019s book and based on Beniamin Bukowski\u2019s script (Nowy Teatr in Warsaw\/Teatr \u0141a\u017ania Nowa in Cracow, 2020), and \u201cMaria Klassenberg\u201d (TR Warszawa in cooperation with Galeria Raster, 2020). Kalwat is a laureate of \u201cO!L\u015bnienia 2021\u201d Cultural Award granted by Onet and the City of Cracow. One of her latest performances is titled \u201cArt of Living\u201d and is inspired by Georges Perec\u2019s \u201cLife: A User\u2019s Manual\u201d (The Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Cracow, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Martyna Peszko<\/strong>, graduate of the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow and the DOK Pro workshop at Wajda School. She studied at Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique in Paris, Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, and Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. As an actress, she was associated with Teatr Ludowy and Stary Teatr in Krakow, National Theatre and Drama Laboratory in Warsaw. She received the Jan Machulski prize for the best actress. She debuted in 2020 with the short documentary „Tell Me More”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elwira Niewiera<\/strong> & Piotr Rosolowski<\/strong> are acclaimed Polish-Germany filmmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Krzysztof Garbaczewski<\/strong> (born February 24, 1983 in Bialystok, Poland) is a Polish theatre director, stage designer and digital artist. He creates interdisciplinary performances, theatrical installations combining performance, visual arts and virtual reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lead image:  Aneta Grzeszykowska, Archiwum Marii Klassenberg, 1970-1980<\/em>, 2019. Wsp\u00f3\u0142praca: Jan Smaga. Performerzy: Anna Rutkowska, Wojciech \u017bera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The in-person screenings require registering in advance. \\nIN FESTIVAL'S LINE UP THERE WILL BE FOUR POLISH FILMS: \\nThe World Premiere of Maria Klassenberg by Oscar nominated Magda Hueckel and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski\\nUS Premiere of Revolution 21 by Martyna Peszko and Teatr 21\\nThe Hamlet Syndrom by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski\\nThe Books of Jacob by Krzysztof Garbaczewski\\nThe Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. \\nFrom its inaugural edition in 2015 to its present-day The Segal Film Festival for Theatre and Performance (FTP) has served as a platform for recorded works that span the length and breadth of the performing arts.\\nFestival Founder and Executive Director of the Martin E. Segal Theater Center, Frank Hentschker shares his inspiration for creating the festival: \u201cFilm and digital media are an integral part of theatre and performance. I am surprised that there is not a film festival out there right now focusing on theatre and performance. I thought \u2018why not create one\u2019?\u201d\\nIn the time before Corona, the Segal Film Festival had evolved into the premier US event for new film and video work focusing on theatre and performance. Its mission was to invite experimental and established theatre makers to present work created for the screen \u2013 not filmed archival recordings \u2013 to audiences and industry professionals from around the world. Now, after a year and a half of digital and hybrid theatre offerings, the festival must take on a new meaning. The festival has held on to its mission of being a free and open-to-all event accessible to everyone. \\n8th edition of the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP), co-curated by Frank Hentschker (Executive Director, The Martin E. Segal Theater Center) and Tomek Smolarski (Film and Performing Arts Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute NY) will be held in person May 16th-20th, and online from May 16th- June 6th.\\nThursday, May 16 at 8 PMMaria Klassenberg by Oscar nominated Magda Hueckel and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski \u2013 The World Premiere This film will be screened in-person on May 16th and also be available to watch online May 16th onwards for 3 weeks.\\nThe film created by the Academy Award nominees: Magda Hueckel and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski is a biographicalmockumentary about Maria Klassenberg, a forgotten pioneer of performance art. All of her life the artist has created and presented her works in her apartment in Warsaw. The action of the film takes place at the opening of an exhibition, where the artist\u2019s radical works from the \u201870s and the \u201880s, that up to that point had been seen by the family and friends only, are presented to the wider audience for the first time. The moment Maria Klassenberg\u2019s works finally are discovered by the art world is at the same time the culmination of her personal conflict with her daughter -Aneta Klassenberg, the curator of the exhibition. For Aneta, Maria\u2019s exhibition is a compensation for the lost childhood and the only way to rebuild a close relationship with her mother. The unsettled past shared by the mother and daughter becomes the artist\u2019s final work. Maria Klassenberg has never existed, which doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s not real. She represents allfemale artists who haven\u2019t had a chance to make their mark on the art market controlled by men. Her biography and artistic portfolio has been created by a group of Polish theatre and visual art artists: the concept and the very character of Maria Klassenberg has been created by Katarzyna Kalwat (theatre director), with the help form Anda Rottenberg (a curator and one of the protagonists of the film) and Joanna Zieli\u0144ska, and the archive of the artist\u2019s works from the \u201870s and the \u201880s has been developed by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga. The film features fragments of famous performances from the 20th century, that resonate with Klassenberg\u2019s works. On the one hand this documentary is an artistic recording of the performance-exhibition directed by Katarzyna Kalwat but on the other hand it\u2019s a provocation attempt: how will the modern world of art, which declares gender equity, react to a fictitious female artist who combines in her works feministic motifs found in the 20th century art?\\nMonday, May 20 at 6:45 PMRevolution 21 by Martyna Peszko and Teatr 21 \u2013 US PREMIERE \u2013 In Person screeningTRAILER\\nIn the film \u201cRevolution 21\u201d we are introduced to Theatre 21, a Warsaw-based professional theatre group which has been staging performances for the last 17 years. Founded by Justyna Sobczyk, a theatre teacher and director, it consists solely of actors with Down syndrome. They start work on a new performance entitled \u201cA Revolution Which Never Was There\u201d, using the protest of the disabled in Polish parliament as their inspiration. Able-bodied actors are also invited to take part in the performance. Nobody receives any special treatment. Full commitment is required from each member of the cast, everyone is treated equally. The work model in Teatr 21 is very innovative. Most of the rehearsals rely on acting improvisations on the subject set by the director (revolution, sexuality, independence, political cabaret, rehabilitation, etc.), accompanied by live music written by the band POKUSA. This working process arouses heated discussions between the actors on the subject of nudity on stage, the involvement of theatre in politics, the limits of privacy and the courage to ridicule themselves on stage.\\nMonday, May 20 at 7:50 PMThe Hamlet Syndrome by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski \u2013 In Person ScreeningTRAILER\\nFew months prior to Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, five young women and men participate in a unique stage production that attempts to relate their war experiences to Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet. For each of them, the stage is a platform to express their grief and trauma through the famous question, \u201cto be or not to be,\u201d a dilemma that applies to their ow lives. \\nThe Books of Jacob by Krzysztof Garbaczewski \u2013 ONLINE ONLY This film will be available to watch online on the festival website May 16th onwards for 3 weeks.\\nLa MaMa and CultureHub in association with the Polish Cultural Institute New York present The Books of Jacob by Dream Adoption Society, a digital laboratory led by Krzysztof Garbaczewski. The Books of Jacob is inspired by Olga Tokarczuk's Nobel prize-winning novel of the same name which explores the historical events surrounding Jacob Frank, a man who claimed to be the reincarnation of Sabbatai Zevi. In front of a live audience, Garbaczewski creates a hybrid theatre and virtual reality experience that delves into the ideas and relevance of Jacob's transformative religious movement in 18th Century Europe.The Books of Jacob is produced within CultureHub and La MaMa\u2019s Experiments in Digital Storytelling program, which incubates story-driven artworks that push the boundaries of artistic forms.\\nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\\nMagda Hueckel a visual artist, set designer, scriptwriter, creator of documentaries, and theatre photographer. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Design of the Fine Arts Academy in Gda\u0144sk. Her works have been presented at over 40 individual and over 60 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad (including Tate Britain in London, Circulation in Paris, Unseen Amsterdam, Vienna Art Fair). Her works can be found in the National Museum in Wroc\u0142aw and in numerous private collections. Hueckel is the author of \u201cAnima. Pictures from Africa 2005\u20132013\u201d and \u201cHUECKEL\/THEATRE\u201d (nominations for the 2014 and 2016 Photographic Publication of the Year Awards). She has documented a few hundred theatre performances. Hueckel was awarded scholarships by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Sopot and she\u2019s a laureate of the Sopot Muse for Young Artists award. From 2002 until 2004 she was a part of the photographic duo known as hueckelserafin, together with Agata Serafin. She is the Chairwoman and co-founder of the CCHS Foundation of Poland \u201cLift the Curse\u201d, which was awarded EURORDIS Black Pearl Award 2020. Hueckel is the curator and producer of the\u201cOndinata. Songs for Ondine\u201d project.\\nTomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski, director and scriptwriter. Graduate of the Directing Department at the Warsaw Film School and Feature Development Lab Programme at the Wajda School. His short movie \u201cOur Curse\u201d (2013) has won many prizes at film festivals all over the world and was nominated for the IDA Award granted by the International Documentary Association. He is a laureate of the \u201cYoung Poland\u201d Scholarship Programme (2015) awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and a scholarship awarded by the City of Warsaw (2019). \u015aliwi\u0144ski is a member of the Documentary Directors Guild of Poland and the Vice President of CCHS Foundation of Poland \u201cLift the Curse\u201d. He is the co-curator and producer of a music project \u201cOndinata. Songs for Ondine\u201d.\\nMagdalena Hueckel and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski often collaborate on the production of films and artistic projects - Magda Hueckel writes the scripts and is the art director, and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski is the director. Their documentary \u201cOur Curse\u201d was nominated for the Academy Award and won a few dozen awards at international festivals. Hueckel and \u015aliwi\u0144ski created together a short film \u201cOndine\u201d (2019) and short film series titled \u201cPlague Chronicles\u201d (2020). The series won the main prize at the DIG IT contest for the best theatrical activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their last production was \u201cStary\u201d - the documentary about the National Stary Theatre in Cracow.\\nKatarzyna Kalwat, director, graduate of Psychology Faculty at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the Directing Department at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, holder of scholarships granted by the French Government. Her works often originate from archive explorations and focus on researching the mechanisms of memory and postmemory. She directed a performance titled \u201cHolzwege\u201d (produced by TR Warszawa, 2016), which won the Grand Prix at the 22nd National Competition for Staging Contemporary Polish Plays, and \u201cReykjavik \u201974\u201d (The Wilam Horzyca Theatre in Toru\u0144, 2017), which won the Second Prize at the 19th National Festival of Directing Art\u201cInterpretations\u201d in Katowice. The director is interested in processual forms, works that combine various fields of art, and researching the common ground between performance art and theatre. Katarzyna Kalwat has directed many theatre performances including, among others: \u201cLandschaft. Anatomy Lesson\u201d based on Waronika Murek\u2019s text (The Julius S\u0142owacki Theatre in Cracow, 2017), \u201cGrotowski nonfiction\u201d created in cooperation with the visual artist Zbigniew Libera (Contemporary Theatre in Wroclaw and the Jan Kochanowski Theatre in Opole, 2019), an opera composed by Wojtek Blecharz, titled \u201cRechnitz. The Exterminating Angel\u201d based on a drama by the Nobel Prize winner \u2013 Elfriede Jelinek (TR Warszawa, 2019), \u201cStaff Only\u201d project created in cooperation with foreign artists living in Poland (coproduced by Biennale Warszawa and TR Warszawa), \u201cReturn to Reims\u201d inspired by Didier Eribon\u2019s book and based on Beniamin Bukowski\u2019s script (Nowy Teatr in Warsaw\/Teatr \u0141a\u017ania Nowa in Cracow, 2020), and \u201cMaria Klassenberg\u201d (TR Warszawa in cooperation with Galeria Raster, 2020). Kalwat is a laureate of \u201cO!L\u015bnienia 2021\u201d Cultural Award granted by Onet and the City of Cracow. One of her latest performances is titled \u201cArt of Living\u201d and is inspired by Georges Perec\u2019s \u201cLife: A User\u2019s Manual\u201d (The Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Cracow, 2022).\\nMartyna Peszko, graduate of the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow and the DOK Pro workshop at Wajda School. She studied at Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique in Paris, Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, and Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. As an actress, she was associated with Teatr Ludowy and Stary Teatr in Krakow, National Theatre and Drama Laboratory in Warsaw. She received the Jan Machulski prize for the best actress. She debuted in 2020 with the short documentary \\\"Tell Me More\\\".\\nElwira Niewiera & Piotr Rosolowski are acclaimed Polish-Germany filmmakers.\\nKrzysztof Garbaczewski (born February 24, 1983 in Bialystok, Poland) is a Polish theatre director, stage designer and digital artist. He creates interdisciplinary performances, theatrical installations combining performance, visual arts and virtual reality.\\nLead image: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Archiwum Marii Klassenberg, 1970-1980, 2019. Wsp\u00f3\u0142praca: Jan Smaga. 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The in-person screenings require registering in advance. \nIN FESTIVAL'S LINE UP THERE WILL BE FOUR POLISH FILMS: \nThe World Premiere of Maria Klassenberg by Oscar nominated Magda Hueckel and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski\nUS Premiere of Revolution 21 by Martyna Peszko and Teatr 21\nThe Hamlet Syndrom by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski\nThe Books of Jacob by Krzysztof Garbaczewski\nThe Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. \nFrom its inaugural edition in 2015 to its present-day The Segal Film Festival for Theatre and Performance (FTP) has served as a platform for recorded works that span the length and breadth of the performing arts.\nFestival Founder and Executive Director of the Martin E. Segal Theater Center, Frank Hentschker shares his inspiration for creating the festival: \u201cFilm and digital media are an integral part of theatre and performance. I am surprised that there is not a film festival out there right now focusing on theatre and performance. I thought \u2018why not create one\u2019?\u201d\nIn the time before Corona, the Segal Film Festival had evolved into the premier US event for new film and video work focusing on theatre and performance. Its mission was to invite experimental and established theatre makers to present work created for the screen \u2013 not filmed archival recordings \u2013 to audiences and industry professionals from around the world. Now, after a year and a half of digital and hybrid theatre offerings, the festival must take on a new meaning. The festival has held on to its mission of being a free and open-to-all event accessible to everyone. \n8th edition of the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP), co-curated by Frank Hentschker (Executive Director, The Martin E. Segal Theater Center) and Tomek Smolarski (Film and Performing Arts Curator at the Polish Cultural Institute NY) will be held in person May 16th-20th, and online from May 16th- June 6th.\nThursday, May 16 at 8 PMMaria Klassenberg by Oscar nominated Magda Hueckel and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski \u2013 The World Premiere This film will be screened in-person on May 16th and also be available to watch online May 16th onwards for 3 weeks.\nThe film created by the Academy Award nominees: Magda Hueckel and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski is a biographicalmockumentary about Maria Klassenberg, a forgotten pioneer of performance art. All of her life the artist has created and presented her works in her apartment in Warsaw. The action of the film takes place at the opening of an exhibition, where the artist\u2019s radical works from the \u201870s and the \u201880s, that up to that point had been seen by the family and friends only, are presented to the wider audience for the first time. The moment Maria Klassenberg\u2019s works finally are discovered by the art world is at the same time the culmination of her personal conflict with her daughter -Aneta Klassenberg, the curator of the exhibition. For Aneta, Maria\u2019s exhibition is a compensation for the lost childhood and the only way to rebuild a close relationship with her mother. The unsettled past shared by the mother and daughter becomes the artist\u2019s final work. Maria Klassenberg has never existed, which doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s not real. She represents allfemale artists who haven\u2019t had a chance to make their mark on the art market controlled by men. Her biography and artistic portfolio has been created by a group of Polish theatre and visual art artists: the concept and the very character of Maria Klassenberg has been created by Katarzyna Kalwat (theatre director), with the help form Anda Rottenberg (a curator and one of the protagonists of the film) and Joanna Zieli\u0144ska, and the archive of the artist\u2019s works from the \u201870s and the \u201880s has been developed by Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga. The film features fragments of famous performances from the 20th century, that resonate with Klassenberg\u2019s works. On the one hand this documentary is an artistic recording of the performance-exhibition directed by Katarzyna Kalwat but on the other hand it\u2019s a provocation attempt: how will the modern world of art, which declares gender equity, react to a fictitious female artist who combines in her works feministic motifs found in the 20th century art?\nMonday, May 20 at 6:45 PMRevolution 21 by Martyna Peszko and Teatr 21 \u2013 US PREMIERE \u2013 In Person screeningTRAILER\nIn the film \u201cRevolution 21\u201d we are introduced to Theatre 21, a Warsaw-based professional theatre group which has been staging performances for the last 17 years. Founded by Justyna Sobczyk, a theatre teacher and director, it consists solely of actors with Down syndrome. They start work on a new performance entitled \u201cA Revolution Which Never Was There\u201d, using the protest of the disabled in Polish parliament as their inspiration. Able-bodied actors are also invited to take part in the performance. Nobody receives any special treatment. Full commitment is required from each member of the cast, everyone is treated equally. The work model in Teatr 21 is very innovative. Most of the rehearsals rely on acting improvisations on the subject set by the director (revolution, sexuality, independence, political cabaret, rehabilitation, etc.), accompanied by live music written by the band POKUSA. This working process arouses heated discussions between the actors on the subject of nudity on stage, the involvement of theatre in politics, the limits of privacy and the courage to ridicule themselves on stage.\nMonday, May 20 at 7:50 PMThe Hamlet Syndrome by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski \u2013 In Person ScreeningTRAILER\nFew months prior to Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, five young women and men participate in a unique stage production that attempts to relate their war experiences to Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet. For each of them, the stage is a platform to express their grief and trauma through the famous question, \u201cto be or not to be,\u201d a dilemma that applies to their ow lives. \nThe Books of Jacob by Krzysztof Garbaczewski \u2013 ONLINE ONLY This film will be available to watch online on the festival website May 16th onwards for 3 weeks.\nLa MaMa and CultureHub in association with the Polish Cultural Institute New York present The Books of Jacob by Dream Adoption Society, a digital laboratory led by Krzysztof Garbaczewski. The Books of Jacob is inspired by Olga Tokarczuk's Nobel prize-winning novel of the same name which explores the historical events surrounding Jacob Frank, a man who claimed to be the reincarnation of Sabbatai Zevi. In front of a live audience, Garbaczewski creates a hybrid theatre and virtual reality experience that delves into the ideas and relevance of Jacob's transformative religious movement in 18th Century Europe.The Books of Jacob is produced within CultureHub and La MaMa\u2019s Experiments in Digital Storytelling program, which incubates story-driven artworks that push the boundaries of artistic forms.\nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nMagda Hueckel a visual artist, set designer, scriptwriter, creator of documentaries, and theatre photographer. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Design of the Fine Arts Academy in Gda\u0144sk. Her works have been presented at over 40 individual and over 60 group exhibitions in Poland and abroad (including Tate Britain in London, Circulation in Paris, Unseen Amsterdam, Vienna Art Fair). Her works can be found in the National Museum in Wroc\u0142aw and in numerous private collections. Hueckel is the author of \u201cAnima. Pictures from Africa 2005\u20132013\u201d and \u201cHUECKEL\/THEATRE\u201d (nominations for the 2014 and 2016 Photographic Publication of the Year Awards). She has documented a few hundred theatre performances. Hueckel was awarded scholarships by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Sopot and she\u2019s a laureate of the Sopot Muse for Young Artists award. From 2002 until 2004 she was a part of the photographic duo known as hueckelserafin, together with Agata Serafin. She is the Chairwoman and co-founder of the CCHS Foundation of Poland \u201cLift the Curse\u201d, which was awarded EURORDIS Black Pearl Award 2020. Hueckel is the curator and producer of the\u201cOndinata. Songs for Ondine\u201d project.\nTomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski, director and scriptwriter. Graduate of the Directing Department at the Warsaw Film School and Feature Development Lab Programme at the Wajda School. His short movie \u201cOur Curse\u201d (2013) has won many prizes at film festivals all over the world and was nominated for the IDA Award granted by the International Documentary Association. He is a laureate of the \u201cYoung Poland\u201d Scholarship Programme (2015) awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and a scholarship awarded by the City of Warsaw (2019). \u015aliwi\u0144ski is a member of the Documentary Directors Guild of Poland and the Vice President of CCHS Foundation of Poland \u201cLift the Curse\u201d. He is the co-curator and producer of a music project \u201cOndinata. Songs for Ondine\u201d.\nMagdalena Hueckel and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski often collaborate on the production of films and artistic projects - Magda Hueckel writes the scripts and is the art director, and Tomasz \u015aliwi\u0144ski is the director. Their documentary \u201cOur Curse\u201d was nominated for the Academy Award and won a few dozen awards at international festivals. Hueckel and \u015aliwi\u0144ski created together a short film \u201cOndine\u201d (2019) and short film series titled \u201cPlague Chronicles\u201d (2020). The series won the main prize at the DIG IT contest for the best theatrical activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their last production was \u201cStary\u201d - the documentary about the National Stary Theatre in Cracow.\nKatarzyna Kalwat, director, graduate of Psychology Faculty at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the Directing Department at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, holder of scholarships granted by the French Government. Her works often originate from archive explorations and focus on researching the mechanisms of memory and postmemory. She directed a performance titled \u201cHolzwege\u201d (produced by TR Warszawa, 2016), which won the Grand Prix at the 22nd National Competition for Staging Contemporary Polish Plays, and \u201cReykjavik \u201974\u201d (The Wilam Horzyca Theatre in Toru\u0144, 2017), which won the Second Prize at the 19th National Festival of Directing Art\u201cInterpretations\u201d in Katowice. The director is interested in processual forms, works that combine various fields of art, and researching the common ground between performance art and theatre. Katarzyna Kalwat has directed many theatre performances including, among others: \u201cLandschaft. Anatomy Lesson\u201d based on Waronika Murek\u2019s text (The Julius S\u0142owacki Theatre in Cracow, 2017), \u201cGrotowski nonfiction\u201d created in cooperation with the visual artist Zbigniew Libera (Contemporary Theatre in Wroclaw and the Jan Kochanowski Theatre in Opole, 2019), an opera composed by Wojtek Blecharz, titled \u201cRechnitz. The Exterminating Angel\u201d based on a drama by the Nobel Prize winner \u2013 Elfriede Jelinek (TR Warszawa, 2019), \u201cStaff Only\u201d project created in cooperation with foreign artists living in Poland (coproduced by Biennale Warszawa and TR Warszawa), \u201cReturn to Reims\u201d inspired by Didier Eribon\u2019s book and based on Beniamin Bukowski\u2019s script (Nowy Teatr in Warsaw\/Teatr \u0141a\u017ania Nowa in Cracow, 2020), and \u201cMaria Klassenberg\u201d (TR Warszawa in cooperation with Galeria Raster, 2020). Kalwat is a laureate of \u201cO!L\u015bnienia 2021\u201d Cultural Award granted by Onet and the City of Cracow. One of her latest performances is titled \u201cArt of Living\u201d and is inspired by Georges Perec\u2019s \u201cLife: A User\u2019s Manual\u201d (The Helena Modrzejewska National Stary Theatre in Cracow, 2022).\nMartyna Peszko, graduate of the National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow and the DOK Pro workshop at Wajda School. She studied at Conservatoire National d'Art Dramatique in Paris, Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, and Philosophy at the University of Warsaw. As an actress, she was associated with Teatr Ludowy and Stary Teatr in Krakow, National Theatre and Drama Laboratory in Warsaw. She received the Jan Machulski prize for the best actress. She debuted in 2020 with the short documentary \"Tell Me More\".\nElwira Niewiera & Piotr Rosolowski are acclaimed Polish-Germany filmmakers.\nKrzysztof Garbaczewski (born February 24, 1983 in Bialystok, Poland) is a Polish theatre director, stage designer and digital artist. He creates interdisciplinary performances, theatrical installations combining performance, visual arts and virtual reality.\nLead image: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Archiwum Marii Klassenberg, 1970-1980, 2019. Wsp\u00f3\u0142praca: Jan Smaga. 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