To celebrate 10th anniversary of the Wajda School, Plus Camerimage will include a series of events.



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MASTERCLASSES

ANDRZEJ WAJDA MASTERCLASS
Story in pictures - Edward Hopper paintings

Sunday, 27th November, 11.00 - 12.30

The paintings of Edward Hopper are considered by Andrzej Wajda as an integral part of the process of thinking about the cinema and the condition of modern humanity.





VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF MASTERCLASS
Contemporary films vs historical ones

Monday, 28th November, 12.30 - 14.00

Any given film is a historical one, not in the sense of "period drama", but given it is rooted in the historical moment of its making, whether its subject is in the present, the future or the past.





WOJCIECH MARCZEWSKI MASTERCLASS
Film camera psychology vs audience interaction

Tuesday, 29th November, 15.15 - 16.45

Both cinematographer and director have to be aware that a film camera is not only a technical object. In the hands of a true artist it can have a soul, a character, and a personality. Film camera can be intelligent, sensible and reflective, or even indifferent and cynical. This awareness helps the filmmakers in making use of all the possibilities of inviting the viewers into an intriguing game.





UDAYAN PRASAD MASTERCLASS
Point Of View: Seeing The World Through The Eyes Of The Characters. How an understanding of the acting process can help us in developing a visual language that shows the inner, psychological world of the characters.

Wednesday, 30th November, 15.00 - 16.30

Tarkovsky said that there are two kind of film makers - those who simply replicate the world as it is and those that create the inner psychological world of their characters. The latter, he went on to say, are the poets of the cinema. What did he mean by this? I would like to suggest that his comments are about ‘point-of-view'. That is to say when we watch their films we don't simply and literally see what the characters see but also feel the story. The point is to convey as intensely as possible the world of the story as the characters experience it. How is this achieved? That is precisely what we will explore by looking at the approaches/techniques some film makers have used to force us into the mental landscapes of their characters.





ZBIGNIEW LIBERA MASTER CLASS
Presentation of his work

Thursday, 1st December, 15.30 - 17.00

Zbigniew Libera's lecture on his work will be illustrated with slides: “How to Tame Girls", “Mystical Perseveration", and “Intimate rites".





JERZY ZIELIŃSKI MASTERCLASS
Hyperrealism in the film "Man, Chicks are Just Different"

Friday, 2nd December, 17.30 - 19.00

About the making of "Man, Chicks are Just Different". Despite the fact that the action takes place in a moving car, the film was shot almost entirely in a film studio. By using “green screen" and digital technology the filmmakers created a plausible and realistic film. Maybe even hyperrealistic.







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EXHIBITIONS


WAJDA'S SCHOOL - BEST POSTERS

Galeria Debiut
28.11.2011, 18.00 Exhibition Opening

The film school established by Andrzej Wajda and Wojciech Marczewski will be celebrating its 10th birthday during the 19th Plus Camerimage Festival. On this occasion, many attractions have been planned: master classes by Polish and foreign artists, screenings, and exhibitions - including a gallery of the best movie posters from the last decade. Among them, one will find works by Bartek Konopka, Marcin Sauter, Agnieszka Smoczyńska and Marta Minorowicz.

These posters prove that Wajda Studio and Wajda School are not focusing solely on movies. A film's production is the most important stage through which it has to go through, but it is just one of many. Wajda School and Wajda Studio give artistic patronage to their feature films and documentaries, as well as taking care of their distribution and promotion. The posters are proof of the latter. Although printed in small numbers, they are always carefully thought out - directors collaborate closely with chosen artists in order to reflect the specific character of a movie. In this way, Wajda School and Wajda Studio refer to the idea of Zespoły Filmowe (Film Groups), and at the same time they resuscitate the tradition of the Polish School of Poster. Let this exhibition be a form of visual credo for the Wajda School and Studio: “more than just a film school", “more than just a film studio".

In the gallery, one will find posters created by artists such as Ewa Natkaniec, Tymek Jezierski, Ewelina Rytel, Jerzy Korput, Malwina Kühn, Monika Łyko, Piotr Jackowski, Robert Czerniawski, Thierry Paladino, Piotr Jarecki, Bartłomiej Skolimowski, Artur Wyrzykowski, Lesław Dobrucki, Swava Harasymowic and Ola Niepsuj.


ANDRZEJ WAJDA - DRAWINGS

Exhibition grand opening: 27.11.2011 (Sunday), 6.00PM
Galeria Miejska bwa in Bydgoszcz, 20 Gdańska Street

The audience of this year's PLUS CAMERIMAGE festival will have a one-of-a-kind chance to see the unique exhibition dedicated to the works of Andrzej Wajda in the Bydgoszcz Municipal Gallery bwa. The 55 drawings put on display - created concomitantly with Wajda's filmmaking activities - were selected from over 300 works published in the album "Rysunki z całego życia" ("Drawings from a Lifetime"). Antoni Rodowicz, Wajda's friend of long standing, is both the originator of the exhibition and the publisher of the album. The grand opening will be held on the second day of the festival in the Municipal Gallery bwa, on 27 September (Sunday), at 6 PM, in the presence of the author himself. The exhibition will be open to the public until the end of December 2011. We would like express our deepest thanks to the “Manggha" Centre of Japanese Art and Technology in Cracow for lending the drawings.


A POSITIVE EXHIBITION - LIBERA IN MUNICIPAL MUSEUM

Exhibition: 25.11.2011-8.01.2012
1st December, 18:00: Ceremonial opening and a meeting with Zbigniew Libera
Municipal Museum, Granaries, 7-11 Grodzka Street, Bydgoszcz

"Pozytywy" is a series of staged photographs from 2002-2003, reconstructing famous historical press photographs in their ‘positive' versions, repeating their general composition yet at the same time replacing the main characters and altering the meaning of the depicted scenes. Zbigniew Libera about the works: “Pozytywy is yet another attempt at playing with trauma. We are always dealing with memorised images of things, not with things themselves. I wanted to use this mechanism of perceiving the world and remembering and to touch upon the phenomenon of memory afterimage. This is exactly how we perceive these photographs - the innocent scenes invoke flashbacks of the original cruel events. I selected the ‘negatives' out of my own memory, from photographs remembered when I was I child."

Zbigniew Libera is one of the most important and famous Polish contemporary artists. His works include photographs, films, installations, structures and drawings, which are an insightful and at times misleading commentary about the reality and a play with stereotypes of contemporary culture. The made his debut in 1980s with the shocking installations of an intimate character (Obrzędy intymne - Intimate rituals, and Perseweracja mistyczna - Mystic perseverance), foreshadowing the future ‘body art.' In 1990s, he became the most important representative of critical art in Poland (he teased that: ‘he was critical art'). He creates numerous works commenting on the development of the culture of consumption, culture ‘training' and repressive unpbringing. His most famous works include: Lego. Concentration Camp, Body master. A play set for under 9s, ChristusistMeinLeben and La Vue.

The exhibition is organised on occasion of the 10th anniversary of Wajda's School during the Plus Camerimage film festival and on occasion of awarding Zbigiew Libera the first edition of the Film Award - a joint initiative of the Polish Films Institute, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Wajda School.

The works made available come from the collections of the Lower Silesia Fine Arts Promotion Society in Wrocław.



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THE BEST OF WAJDA SCHOOL
Divided into five screenings (more information about the films HERE)


FIRST SCREENING


WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE MY MOTHER
Director: Norah McGettigan
Cinematographer: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen

TAKE A LOOK
Director: Adam Palenta
Cinematographer: Adam Palenta

ANDRZEJ WAJDA: LET'S SHOOT!
Directors: Maciej Cuske, Thierry Paladino, Marcin Sauter, Piotr Stasik
Cinematographers: Maciej Cuske, Thierry Paladino, Marcin Sauter, Piotr Stasik


SECOND SCREENING


LITTLE BRIDE
Director: Leszek Dobrucki
Cinematographer: Piotr Rosołowski

THREE FOR THE TAKING
Director: Bartek Konopka
Cinematographer: Piotr Rosołowski

THE BLACK DAUGHTER
Director: Anna Skorupa
Cinematographers: Piotr Rosołowski, Magdalena Kowalczyk


THIRD SCREENING


THE DOG HILL
Director: Grzegorz Zariczny
Cinematographer: Weronika Bilska

VIVA MARIA!
Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Cinematographers: Magda Kowalczyk, Kacper Lisowski

ARIA DIVA
Director: Agnieszka Smoczyńska
Cinematographer: Przemysław Kamiński


FOURTH SCREENING


THE NORTH FROM CALABRIA
Director: Marcin Sauter
Cinematographers: Radosław Ładczuk, Łukasz Gutt

BEHIND THE FENCE
Director: Marcin Sauter
Cinematographer: Dawid Sokołowski

STREET FEELING
Director: Kristoffer Rus
Cinematographer: Piotr Sobociński jr


FIFTH SCREENING


GLASGOW
Director: Piotr Subbotko
Cinematographer: Wojciech Staroń

3 DAYS OF FREEDOM
Cinematographers: Michał Stajniak, Magdalena Kowalczyk, Filip Drożdż

BIRTHDAY
Director: Maciej Sobieszczański
Cinematographer: Jacek Podgórski