Rafał Syska

Rafał Syska, Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts of the Jagiellonian University. Film scholar, specialist in contemporary cinema and post-film practices. Author and editor of several books. Holder of scholarships of the Polityka Weekly Foundation, the Polish Science Foundation and the Kościuszko Foundation. Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. Editor-in-chief of the EKRANy magazine. Two-time organising director of the „Etiuda” International Film Festival. Curator of the Stanley Kubrick (2014) and Wajda (2019) exhibitions. Since 2016 director of the National Centre of Film Culture in Lodz.

Archives and trends in world film exhibitions

The topic of the speech will be the presentation of the dominant trends in film exhibitions in the world museology. At the beginning, the most important paradoxes of film exhibitions will be examined, and in the following sections – examples of exhibition trends. As benchmarks will be analyzed Stanley Kubrick (a traditional touring exhibition). Harry Potter (a multimedia show activating the widest spectrum of the recipient’s senses), and the National Center for Film Culture (a central institution focused on educational and popularization activities, as well as permanent and temporary exhibitions). Each of these projects is closely related to archival activities, collecting objects, conservation, preparation for exhibitions, and then the preparation of exhibition narration.

Prof. Rafał Syska

Institute of Audiovisual Arts

Jagiellonian University in Cracow