AROUND THE CORNER, NOT FAR AWAY
(ZA ROGIEM NIEDALEKO)



2005, 43 min., Poland
DIRECTION:
Kazimierz Karabasz
SCRIPT:
Kazimierz Karabasz
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Kazimierz Karabasz
EDITING:
Lidia Zonn
SOUND:
Iwmo Klimek
PRODUCTION:
Kronika Film Studio

How may we express respect with camera and microphone in hand? By examining the life of a human being, his experience in a careful, amiable and favorable way, Karabasz once said. Here he portrays everyday life of three men of a different age who live and work at the same Koszykowa street in Warsaw. It's the street, as the director confides in an of-screen voice, "he walks down almost every day." Franciszek has been training dogs for sixty years, Ryszard supervises the budget bookstore, and Bartek play an oboe…

Kazimierz Karabasz

Born in 1930 in Bydgosz. A classic of the postwar II Polish documentary. Graduate of the National Lodz Film School (Film Directing, 1956). Since leaving the school he has worked for the Documentary Film Studio in Warsaw, collaborated with Polish National Newsreel, and recently with Kronika Film Studio. Professor in his alma mater. Author of three books on documentary film. He made a great number of award winning films, of which particularly his works from the 60's were most influential on the whole generation of European filmmakers, like: Musicians (Muzykanci, 1960), Golden Lion in Venice, Golden Gate in San Francisco, Grand Prix in Oberhausen and Leipzig; In a Way (W drodze, 1960), Jury Award in Tours '62; A Year of Franek W. (Rok Franka W., 1968), Award in Oberhausen and Golden Lajkonik in Cracow. In 2006 he received Dragon of the Dragons Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cracow FF.

Monday, November 13, 2006 at 7:00 pm. (Gallery Theatre)