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A THRENODY FOR THE TOWN OF SZYDŁÓW

POLISH TITLE: TREN DLA MIASTA SZYDŁOWA

The lyrical portrait of Szydłów, formerly a town and now a village in the region of Kielce, was yet another step on the filmmaker’s way in search for his own artistic focus and style. One of the first films made by Dziworski is a harbinger of what will become his fully fledged style as he develops as an artist: surprising framing, deformed sound recording, slow, accelerated and backward motion, no verbal communication and the superior role of an image.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Poland
RUNNING TIME:
10'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Bogdan Dziworski
SCRIPT:
Stanisław Janicki
DOP:
Bogdan Dziworski, Andrzej Nawrocki
EDITOR:
Anna Nawrocka
MUSIC:
Janusz Hajdun, Ryszard Lindenbergh
PRODUCTION:
Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych

Bogdan Dziworski »

Documentary film director, cinematographer, photographer and university teacher born in 1941 in Lodz. A graduate of Lodz Film School (1965). An Ordinary Professor of Film and Photography and the Dean of the Radio and Television Department of the Silesia University in Katowice. He has received a number of prestigious awards for his excellent documentary films, which focus primarily on arts or sports and include "Krzyz i Topor", "Hokej", "Olimpiada", "Kilka opowiesci o czlowieku" at festivals in Bilbao, Brussels, Leipzig, Marseilles, Oberhausen, San Sebastian and Krakow, among others.