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The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film, 1916-1989
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This is the first comprehensive English-language account of the Polish avant-garde film, from its beginnings in the early decades of the last century to the collapse of communism in 1989. Taking a broad understanding of avant-garde film, this collection includes writings on the pioneering work of the internationally-acclaimed Franciszka and Stefan Themerson; the Polish Futurists (Jalu Kurek, Anatol Stern) engagement with film; the Thaw and animation (Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk, Andrzej Pawlowski, Zbigniew Rybczynski); documentary (Natalia Brzozowska, Kazimierz Karabasz, Wojciech Wiszniewski), Polish migr filmmakers (Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Zulawski) as well as essays and documentation on the highly influential Film Form Workshop (Jzef Robakowski, Ryszard Wasko, Wojciech Bruszewski). Including a mix of historical writings from early film magazines with commissioned essays, this book constitutes an important source on the rich, complex and diverse history of the Polish film avant-garde, which is presented from the perspective of both British (A. L. Rees, Jonathan Owen, Michael OPray) and Polish (Marcin Gizycki, Ryszard Kluszczynski, Kamila Kuc) authorities on the subject. This book is thus an indispensable introduction to the theories and practices of critically important avant-garde artists and filmmakers.

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THE STRUGGLE FOR FORM

THE STRUGGLE

FOR FORM

PERSPECTIVES ON POLISH AVANT-GARDE FILM

1916-1989

EDITED BY KAMILA KUC & MICHAEL OPRAY

A Wallflower Press Book

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Columbia University Press

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E-ISBN 978-0-231-85065-0

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The images included in Chapter 1 are reproduced by courtesy of the Themerson Estate and GV Art Gallery, London

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CONTENTS

It is in the nature of books of this kind that debts of many different sorts are incurred. We first would like to thank Yoram Allon at Wallflower Press for his immediate enthusiasm and support for the project, which he has sustained throughout its rather lengthy production, and, not least, for his patience.

For important help in the early stages, thanks are due to Paulina Latham and Marlena ukasiak at the Polish Cultural Institute, London; Marcin Giycki; Ryszard Kluszczyski; and ukasz Ronduda. We would also like to mention Agnieszka Wolak for her hospitality in Warsaw and her continual support and friendship. Others who often gave practical help and advice or offered critical discussion were A. L. Rees, David Curtis, Daniel Bird, Ilona Halberstadt, Michael Maziere, Kuba Mikurda and Ben Cook.

In particular, enormous gratitude is due to Adam Wyyski and Krzysztof Berowski at the National Film Archive, Warsaw, whose enthusiasm in locating materials went far beyond any professional duty, and also to Jasia Reichardt at the Themerson Archive, London, who gave her enormous support and in a generous spirit provided excellent stills of the Themersons films.

The same is offered to David Curtis and Steven Ball at the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection, Central St Martins, whose knowledge of the subject was extremely important and whose assistance with documentation and film viewings was crucial.

Michael OPray would also like to acknowledge the early financial support for travel in relation to the project of the Research Committee of the School of Architecture and Design, University of East London. Kamila Kuc would like to thank Urszula and Mariusz Dragan for their hospitality during extensive research visits at the National Film Archive in Warsaw.

Of course, we owe much to our contributors for their hard work and commitment, with little remuneration, as is the way more often than not these days, and we offer enormous thanks to them. We would also like to acknowledge the contribution of the magazines Lux Centre, Undercut and PIX in granting permissions to reproduce essays, without which the project would have been impossible.

MARCIN GIYCKI is a film and art historian, critic, filmmaker, photographer and educator, and the Artistic Director of the Animator International Animated Film Festival in Pozna, Poland. He teaches in Poland and the US and has published seven books and made a number of documentary, experimental and animated films.

MIKOAJ JAZDON is a film historian and Professor in the Department of Film, Television and New Media at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna. He is the author of books about the documentary films of Krzysztof Kielowski and Kazimierz Karabasz and the editor of the first book on contemporary Polish independent cinema. He wrote several booklets for the DVD collection of Polish documentary classics (Polska Szkoa Dokumentu), and was the scriptwriter and the interviewer for a TV series about recognised Polish documentary filmmakers (Sztuka dokumentu). He is also the programmer of Klub Krtkiego Kina, a weekly programme of screenings and public meetings with film directors, and an artistic director of the International Documentary Film Festival OFF CINEMA in Pozna.

RYSZARD KLUSZCZYSKI is Professor at the University of d and the d Academy of Fine Arts. He published widely on video art, multi-media and avant-garde cinema. His current interests revolve largely around cyber-culture. He is an art critic and the author of many publications on Polish avant-garde and experimental film.

KAMILA KUC is a film and art historian and curator. She completed her PhD thesis in the history of Polish avant-garde film at Birkbeck College (2012) and is currently authoring a manuscript based on her thesis for Indiana University Press. She is a co-editor of the first Polish collection of Laura Mulveys most influential essays (ha!art) and is also co-editing the first in English companion to Walerian Borowczyks films for Berghahn Books. She teaches art and film history and theory at University of Brighton, Hertfordshire and Kingston.

MICHAEL OPRAY was Professor of Film in the School of Art and Theory, University of East London. He has published widely on avant-garde film and animation and edited Andy Warhol Film Factory (1989, translated into Japanese in 1991); The British Avant-Garde Film 19261995: An Anthology (1996); and, with Jayne Pilling, Inside the Pleasure Dome: The Films of Kenneth Anger (1990). He also wrote Derek Jarman: Dreams of England (1996, translated into Korean in 2004); The Avant-Garde Film: Themes, Forms and Passions (2003); and Film Form and Phantasy: Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics (2004).

JONATHAN L. OWEN completed his PhD on Czech cinema at the University of Manchester, UK. He has worked as an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and a Teaching Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He is author of the monograph Avant-Garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties (Berghahn, 2011) and has contributed various book chapters and articles, including to the journals Framework and Canadian Slavonic Papers. His research interests are East European cinemas, East European avant-gardes, animation, cult cinema and co-productions.

A. L. REES is a research tutor in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art, London. He programmes and writes about artists film, video and digital media. A new and updated edition of his 1999 book, A History of Experimental Film and Video, was published by BFI/Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Other recent essays are in Iconics (Japan), Millennium Film Journal (USA), Sequence and MIRAJ (London).

MATEUSZ WERNER, born 1970, PhD, is a philosopher of culture and film critic. He lectures at UKSW University in Warsaw. He is the editor of the philosophical quarterly Kronos; author of the book Facing Up to Nihilism: Gombrowicz, Witkacy (Warsaw, 2009), on the phenomenon of nihilism in literature; and editor of What Does Kielowski Tell Us Today? (Warsaw, 2008, in Hebrew) and Polish Cinema Now! Focus On Contemporary Polish Cinema (London and Warsaw, 2010; Seoul, 2012). He has recently edited a collection of Pier Paolo Pasolinis essays, After Genocide (Warsaw, 2012), and contributed to international film magazines such as Cahiers du cinma and Close Up (Italy). He is a member of FIPRESCI and the Polish Filmmakers Association.

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