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Streaming on MUBI<\/a><\/strong> starting September 12, 2021
The Polish Cultural Institute New York’s audiences can watch the series with a 30 days free trial <\/strong>(instead of the regular 7 days) by clicking this link: MUBI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polish Cultural Institute New York is excited to partner with <\/em>MUBI<\/em><\/strong> to celebrate Stanislaw Lem’s centennial.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legendary Polish sci-fi author Stanis\u0142aw Lem is best known for his visionary, genre-changing Solaris, famously adapted by Andrei Tarkovsky for his masterpiece of the same name. Marking his centennial, we’re looking back at four key Lem adaptations\u2013by Ari Folman (The Congress), Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi (His Master’s Voice), Andrzej Wajda (Roly Poly), and Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay (Maska)\u2013and celebrating a body of work that continues to illuminate. Two additional titles will screen in November: Marek Piestrak\u2019s Pilot Pirx\u2019s Inquest and Edward Zebrowski\u2019s Hospital of the Transfiguration.<\/p>\n\n\n

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THE CONGRESS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Ari Folman
THE CONGRESS<\/strong>
Available: September 12, 2021 – July 31, 2022 in the US
Available October 15, 2021 – August 31, 2022 in Denmark\/Finland\/Sweden\/Norway from
(2013, 122 min, digital)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm, Danny Huston, and Paul Giamatti.

Freely adapted from Lem\u2019s 1971 novel, THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS, Ari Folman\u2019s THE CONGRESS relocates the story to Hollywood, where aging actress Robin Wright (playing a version of herself) prepares to take on her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future era. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent (Keitel) and the head of Miramount Studios (Huston), her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so she can care for her ailing son, and her digitized character will remain forever young. Twenty years later, under the creative vision of the studio\u2019s head animator (Hamm), Wright\u2019s digital double rises to immortal stardom. With her contract expiring, she is invited to take part in \u201cThe Congress\u201d convention as she makes her comeback straight into the world of future fantasy cinema.

\u201cAn extraordinary and very touching film that exists somewhere in the twilight zone between the existential brainteasers of Charlie Kaufman and the psychedelic wonders of Hayao Miyazaki.\u201d \u2013EMPIRE MAGAZINE<\/p>\n\n\n

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HIS MASTER’S VOICE<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi
HIS MASTER’S VOICE<\/strong>
Available: September 13, 2021 – August 31, 2022 in the US
(Hungary, Canada, 103 minutes, color, English subtitles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Hungarian journalist begins a journey to  the United States in the hopes of finding his own father, a scientist who went missing in the 1970s, while working on a top secret military research project that examined \u2018voices\u2019 from outer space.<\/p>\n\n\n

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ROLY POLY<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Andrzej Wajda
ROLY POLY \/ PRZEKLADANIEC<\/strong>
Available: September 14, 2021 – August 31, 2022 in the US\/Canada
(1968, 35 min, b&w. with Bogumil Kobiela, Polish with English subtitles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Wajda\u2019s film] uses shots of Chicago skyscrapers to set in motion a bizarre futuristic story of a race-car driver who\u2019s had so much of his body replaced by transplants that insurance companies question his very identity and he\u2019s asked to support the children of one of his donors. Lem wrote Wajda that ROLY POLY \u2018rekindled my trust in cooperation with film,\u2019 and its amusing satire on the way people are constructed \u2013 and reconstructed \u2013 by technology and bureaucracy seems even more biting today.\u201d \u2013Fred Camper, CHICAGO READER<\/p>\n\n\n

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MASKA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay
MASKA<\/strong>
Available: September 17, 2021 – September 16, 2022 in the US\/Canada
(2010, 23 min, digital, Polish with English subtitles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set to music by composer Krzysztof Penderecki, this Lem adaptation by the renowned animators the Quay brothers tells the story of an automaton, created in the form of a beautiful woman in order to assassinate a prince, who begins to question her purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n

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HOSPITAL OF THE TRANSFIGURATION<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Edward Zebrowski
HOSPITAL OF THE TRANSFIGURATION<\/strong><\/strong> \/ SZPITAL PRZEMIENIENIA<\/strong> (November)
(1979, 90 min, Polish and German with English subtitles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImagine ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO\u2019S NEST set in a Polish psychiatric hospital during the Nazi occupation. Such is the chillingly perverse scenario of this film, an adaptation of Lem\u2019s first novel (written 1948, published 1955). Both novel and film utilize the asylum as a microcosm of society, but go a step further by placing that microcosm in a time and place \u2013 the early months of World War II \u2013 when the outer world itself had gone mad. The film anatomizes the beliefs, behavior, and identities of both patients and staff, seeking some principle, whether in reason or unreason, to oppose to the implacable totalitarian solution of involuntary euthanasia. But, as if always already overshadowed by the inevitable apocalyptic end, all intentions and actions degenerate into something akin to a piercingly tragic, cruelly humorous theater of the absurd. A disturbing, thoroughly ambiguous picture.\u201d \u2013Christopher J. Caes<\/p>\n\n\n

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PILOT PIRX\u2019S TEST<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Marek Piestrak
PILOT PIRX\u2019S TEST<\/strong> \/ TEST PILOTA PIRXA<\/strong> (November)
(1979, 95 min, Polish, Russian, and Estonian with English subtitles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPirx the Pilot, the everyman of the space age, is one of Lem\u2019s most beloved and psychologically complex characters, appearing over the course of nearly thirty years in ten short stories and one novel. The Estonian-Polish co-production, THE TEST OF PILOT PIRX, to date the only screen adaptation of a Pirx tale, is based on the 1968 short story \u201cThe Inquest.\u201d In it, Pirx, no longer a bumbling space cadet but a seasoned star pilot, is approached by a corporation gearing up for the mass production of androids. The test: can Pirx determine which of the crew members under his command is an android and how he\/it will perform under stress? Imagined against the backdrop of a slightly seedy, near-future corporatocracy and punctuated by composer Arvo P\u00e4rt\u2019s edgy score, the film combines the sensibility of a spy thriller with the conceptual speculation of hard sci-fi.\u201d \u2013Christopher J. Caes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Streaming on MUBI<\/a><\/strong> starting September 12, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor. A place to discover and watch beautiful, interesting, incredible films. A new hand-picked film arrives on MUBI, every single day. Cinema from across the world. From iconic directors, to emerging auteurs. All carefully chosen by MUBI\u2019s curators. MUBI is the biggest community of film lovers, available across 190 countries, with more than 10 million members around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marking his centennial, we're looking back at four key Lem adaptations\u2013by Ari Folman (The Congress), Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi (His Master's Voice), Andrzej Wajda (Roly Poly), and Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay (Maska)\u2013and celebrating a body of work that continues to illuminate. Two additional titles will screen in November: Marek Piestrak\u2019s Pilot Pirx\u2019s Inquest and Edward Zebrowski\u2019s Hospital of the Transfiguration.\nAri FolmanTHE CONGRESSAvailable: September 12, 2021 - July 31, 2022 in the USAvailable October 15, 2021 - August 31, 2022 in Denmark\/Finland\/Sweden\/Norway from(2013, 122 min, digital)\nWith Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm, Danny Huston, and Paul Giamatti.Freely adapted from Lem\u2019s 1971 novel, THE FUTUROLOGICAL CONGRESS, Ari Folman\u2019s THE CONGRESS relocates the story to Hollywood, where aging actress Robin Wright (playing a version of herself) prepares to take on her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future era. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent (Keitel) and the head of Miramount Studios (Huston), her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so she can care for her ailing son, and her digitized character will remain forever young. Twenty years later, under the creative vision of the studio\u2019s head animator (Hamm), Wright\u2019s digital double rises to immortal stardom. With her contract expiring, she is invited to take part in \u201cThe Congress\u201d convention as she makes her comeback straight into the world of future fantasy cinema.\u201cAn extraordinary and very touching film that exists somewhere in the twilight zone between the existential brainteasers of Charlie Kaufman and the psychedelic wonders of Hayao Miyazaki.\u201d \u2013EMPIRE MAGAZINE\nGy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfiHIS MASTER'S VOICEAvailable: September 13, 2021 - August 31, 2022 in the US(Hungary, Canada, 103 minutes, color, English subtitles)\nA Hungarian journalist begins a journey to the United States in the hopes of finding his own father, a scientist who went missing in the 1970s, while working on a top secret military research project that examined \u2018voices\u2019 from outer space.\nAndrzej WajdaROLY POLY \/ PRZEKLADANIECAvailable: September 14, 2021 - August 31, 2022 in the US\/Canada(1968, 35 min, b&w. with Bogumil Kobiela, Polish with English subtitles)\n\u201c[Wajda\u2019s film] uses shots of Chicago skyscrapers to set in motion a bizarre futuristic story of a race-car driver who\u2019s had so much of his body replaced by transplants that insurance companies question his very identity and he\u2019s asked to support the children of one of his donors. Lem wrote Wajda that ROLY POLY \u2018rekindled my trust in cooperation with film,\u2019 and its amusing satire on the way people are constructed \u2013 and reconstructed \u2013 by technology and bureaucracy seems even more biting today.\u201d \u2013Fred Camper, CHICAGO READER\nStephen Quay & Timothy QuayMASKAAvailable: September 17, 2021 - September 16, 2022 in the US\/Canada(2010, 23 min, digital, Polish with English subtitles)\nSet to music by composer Krzysztof Penderecki, this Lem adaptation by the renowned animators the Quay brothers tells the story of an automaton, created in the form of a beautiful woman in order to assassinate a prince, who begins to question her purpose.\nEdward ZebrowskiHOSPITAL OF THE TRANSFIGURATION \/ SZPITAL PRZEMIENIENIA (November)(1979, 90 min, Polish and German with English subtitles)\n\u201cImagine ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO\u2019S NEST set in a Polish psychiatric hospital during the Nazi occupation. Such is the chillingly perverse scenario of this film, an adaptation of Lem\u2019s first novel (written 1948, published 1955). Both novel and film utilize the asylum as a microcosm of society, but go a step further by placing that microcosm in a time and place \u2013 the early months of World War II \u2013 when the outer world itself had gone mad. The film anatomizes the beliefs, behavior, and identities of both patients and staff, seeking some principle, whether in reason or unreason, to oppose to the implacable totalitarian solution of involuntary euthanasia. But, as if always already overshadowed by the inevitable apocalyptic end, all intentions and actions degenerate into something akin to a piercingly tragic, cruelly humorous theater of the absurd. A disturbing, thoroughly ambiguous picture.\u201d \u2013Christopher J. Caes\nMarek PiestrakPILOT PIRX\u2019S TEST \/ TEST PILOTA PIRXA (November)(1979, 95 min, Polish, Russian, and Estonian with English subtitles)\n\u201cPirx the Pilot, the everyman of the space age, is one of Lem\u2019s most beloved and psychologically complex characters, appearing over the course of nearly thirty years in ten short stories and one novel. The Estonian-Polish co-production, THE TEST OF PILOT PIRX, to date the only screen adaptation of a Pirx tale, is based on the 1968 short story \u201cThe Inquest.\u201d In it, Pirx, no longer a bumbling space cadet but a seasoned star pilot, is approached by a corporation gearing up for the mass production of androids. The test: can Pirx determine which of the crew members under his command is an android and how he\/it will perform under stress? Imagined against the backdrop of a slightly seedy, near-future corporatocracy and punctuated by composer Arvo P\u00e4rt\u2019s edgy score, the film combines the sensibility of a spy thriller with the conceptual speculation of hard sci-fi.\u201d \u2013Christopher J. Caes\nStreaming on MUBI starting September 12, 2021\nMUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor. A place to discover and watch beautiful, interesting, incredible films. A new hand-picked film arrives on MUBI, every single day. Cinema from across the world. From iconic directors, to emerging auteurs. All carefully chosen by MUBI\u2019s curators. 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