A surprise episode – March 13th this year, which marks exactly the 29th anniversary of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s death, will see the premiere of a special episode of SpoilerMaster, created in collaboration with Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Creative Archive in Sokołowsko.
The special guest will be Prof. Mikołaj Jazdon, a researcher of Kieślowski’s documentary work from the Institute of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts at UAM.
We will discuss five gems from Kieślowski’s documentary filmography, using materials available in the Sokołowsko Archive:
- FROM THE CITY OF ŁÓDŹ (1969)
- FIRST LOVE (1974)
- FROM A NIGHT PORTER’S POINT OF VIEW (1977)
- SEVEN WOMEN OF DIFFERENT AGES (1979)
- TALKING HEADS (1980)
For their help in producing the recording, I would like to thank Dominik Cywiński and Kacper Jasiński from the Stanisław Lem Laboratory of Experimental Media, as well as Dr. Piotr Pławuszewski.
We invite you to listen!
Did you know that 30 years ago Krzysztof Kieślowski (direction, screenplay), Krzysztof Piesiewicz (screenplay) and Piotr Sobociński (cinematography) were nominated for Academy Awards for their contribution to the making of the final part of the “Three Colors” trilogy?
As Krzysztof Piesiewicz recalls in his conversation with Mikołaj Jazdon:
When the winner in our category [best screenplay] was announced, and it was “Pulp Fiction” again, the co-writer of that film [Roger Avary] who was sitting next to me, stood up, patted me friendly on the shoulder and said with a smile: “Don’t worry. I learned how to write screenplays from your ‘Dekalog, ten!’”. I didn’t worry, at least not as much as Avary thought. I was thinking then about the strange and amazing twists of fate that had led me to this place. After all, when I was going to meet with Kieślowski on a gray afternoon of a day during martial law, I didn’t expect that I was just beginning a journey that would take me, a Warsaw legal counsel, to the Shrine Auditorium, where I would be one of the Oscar-nominated screenwriters, alongside Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Richard Curtis and Krzysztof Kieślowski.
