STILL ALIVE - FILM ABOUT KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI
(STILL ALIVE - FILM O KRZYSZTOFIE KIEŚLOWSKIM)



2006, 80 min., Poland
DIRECTION:
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
SCRIPT:
Stanislaw Zawislinski
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Andrzej Adamczak
EDITING:
Grazyna Gradon
SOUND:
Wojciech Plucinski
PRODUCER:
Slawomir Salamon, Jerzy Jakutowicz
PRODUCTION:
Es-Media, TVP S.A.

Cinema is about drudgery, it is about getting up early, about not sleeping at night, about fretting about rain... This is cinema, this is real cinema. And the moments of satisfaction happen seldom, as Krzysztof Kieslowski often used to say. His former student and outstanding documentary filmmaker today tries to paint his portrait from his words, fragments of films, scraps of memories kept by his friends and colleagues - Wim Wanders, Agnieszka Holland, Slawomir Idziak, Jacek Petrycki, Irene Jacob, Zbigniew Preisner.

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Born in 1954 in Cieplice Slaskie. Film director, scriptwriter. One of the most prolific Polish documentary filmmakers; made nearly 50 films. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (painting, 1978) and the Radio and TV Department of the University of Silesia in Katowice (film directing, 1982). Her feature film debut was The End of the World (Kraj swiata, 1993). Her doc pics include award winning The Office (Urzad, 1986), awarded Golden Lajkonik and Silver Dragon at the Cracow FF '87, Cinema du Reel First Prize '88; Love Without Visa (Milosc bez wizy, 2001); Children of Revolution (Dzieci rewolucji, 2002); Diary.pl (Dziennik.pl, 2004); Krzysztof Kieslowski - Still Alive (2006).

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 8:45 pm. (Gallery Theatre)