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
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 10'
- YEAR:
- 1974
- DIRECTING:
- Bogdan Dziworski
- SCRIPT:
- Stanisław Janicki
- DOP:
- Bogdan Dziworski, Andrzej Nawrocki
- EDITOR:
- Anna Nawrocka
- MUSIC:
- Janusz Hajdun, Ryszard Lindenbergh
- PRODUCER:
- 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.