{"id":787,"date":"2020-04-11T03:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T01:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=787"},"modified":"2020-04-14T23:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T21:31:19","slug":"indelible-portraits-polish-hybrid-nonfiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2020\/04\/11\/indelible-portraits-polish-hybrid-nonfiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Indelible Portraits: Polish Hybrid Nonfiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Presented by Museum of the Moving Image <\/strong><br><strong> in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute New York <\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, June 2, 2017 &#8211; Sunday, June 4, 2017              <br><br><strong>Museum of the Moving Image<br> 36-01 35 Avenue (at 37 Street) <br> Astoria, NY 11106              <\/strong><br><br>Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students \/ free for Museum members)   &nbsp;                                             <br>&#8222;The key impulse behind making documentary films is so that others, directors and viewers alike, feel less alone. It&#8217;s about seeking communication, discovering common fears, weaknesses, and dreams.&#8221;  Marcel Lozinski <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polish documentary came into its own in the late 1950s and early &#8217;60s, when the first political thaw after Stalin&#8217;s death made it possible to speak openly about social and political ills. A &#8222;black series&#8221; of documentaries spoke out about dire conditions in post-war Poland. But by the 1970s and &#8217;80s, filmmakers realized that social commentary was not enough. They craved a new approach to form. The resulting films were bold and inventive. They were also metaphorical and clever, to outwit the censors. In this program, guest curator <strong>Ela Bittencourt <\/strong>gathers key works made in this tradition of Polish hybrid documentaries, a version of which was initially presented at the True\/False Film Festival in 2015 where audiences found them revelatory. 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It's about seeking communication, discovering common fears, weaknesses, and dreams.\"  Marcel Lozinski \nPolish documentary came into its own in the late 1950s and early '60s, when the first political thaw after Stalin's death made it possible to speak openly about social and political ills. A \"black series\" of documentaries spoke out about dire conditions in post-war Poland. But by the 1970s and '80s, filmmakers realized that social commentary was not enough. They craved a new approach to form. The resulting films were bold and inventive. They were also metaphorical and clever, to outwit the censors. In this program, guest curator Ela Bittencourt gathers key works made in this tradition of Polish hybrid documentaries, a version of which was initially presented at the True\/False Film Festival in 2015 where audiences found them revelatory. The impulse behind Indelible Portraits is to bring more of these filmmakers--some who have been only known in Poland, others who have been unjustly forgotten--to the attention of American cinemagoers.\nOne of them is Bogdan Dziworski, a master of plastic imagery and rhythm who was inspired by photography and contemporary visual artists such as Andy Warhol. Also featured in the series are Marek Piwowski, known for later features but whose sharp earlier portraits of people living within oppressive environments have been rarely shown, and Marcel Lozinski, who made films at a time when neither censorship nor the communist regime's suppression of student and workers' movements was conducive to truth telling. Among the younger generation, a formally elastic passion for portraiture can be found in the films of Zofia Kowalewska, Michal Szczesniak, Marcin Koszalka and Michal Marczak.\nMore information\n\t\t\t\t\t  Share this event on your social media."},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2020\/04\/11\/indelible-portraits-polish-hybrid-nonfiction\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/04\/marczak1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/04\/marczak1.jpg","width":300,"height":130,"caption":"marczak1"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2020\/04\/11\/indelible-portraits-polish-hybrid-nonfiction\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Indelible Portraits: Polish Hybrid Nonfiction"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/17b717f69bde859b5f88985d0e02cf4c","name":"grabkai","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c5df7aa3017d2e4a0728ee8593128d75?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c5df7aa3017d2e4a0728ee8593128d75?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"grabkai"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/author\/grabkai\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}