Channel 5 China blog: Wojie Federer Wei Sini Gutschewski (of the untimely death of an Eastern European film days)

by:auess

there is really no time to write too much on any point on-line translation on the bar, Wei Sini Gutschewski is I know Poland Pioneer best documentary director, his work completely subvert the traditional documentary form, especially in photography (not that we saw on that), but unfortunately he died too early, but Shengbufengshi in that How could the Polish allow such freedom of artistic genius there. . . : (

Wojciech Wiszniewski --
1946 Born in Lodz, 81, 35, died of a heart attack due to Warsaw. Wei Sini Gutschewski 1970s Poland is the most radical movement documentary the most creative one director, is also banned from the history of Poland, the highest number of video director, his works had been under 75 percent are banned, which makes the At that time, a group of distinguished documentary directors such as Poland Grzegorz
Krolikiewicz, Marek Koterski, Piotr Szulkin and Bogdan
Dziworski, and other people he is the most little-known one. 1965-69, Wei Sini Gutschewski in Lodz Film Academy study, is the beginning of the photography, and later because of bad eyesight, and to the director, his classmate friends, including young Roman
Polanski, Henryk Kluba and Stefan
Schabenbeck, who often rented in his mother run the student hostels, when these friends come together to create the film later became Poland's new forces, and he is one of the best, is all the most promising one of the students .

Wei Sini Gutschewski in the short life of only 12 completed works, including six students short, 5 Short documentaries and a television movie. He died before that was director of Poland's generation is the most unique style of an individual. Although his work made him a documentary field is a master of creativity, but because the Polish Film Review Committee at the time of the obstruction, which he ultimately failed to complete a long-their first effort, a video history of other Eastern European Pavel
Juracek of the tragic characters.

audio-visual publishing houses last year, Poland (PWA) issued the "Polish documentary Masters Series DVD"also includes the election of his works, One of the two is the most representative "primer"and the "carpenter."The former film of the 1970s because of Poland's political dogmatism of social criticism and the pessimistic view and banned until after the death of the director only to be released, its far-reaching implications of being a symbol of a new awareness, in the same year the film festival carats test was Five awards, while the latter in the excellent cinematography, editing skills and combine documentary and fictional approach was considered the best embodiment Wei Sini Gutschewski style of a film works, although the fate of the same Tao Butuo banned, but Was 81 Oberhausen film festival's best documentary award.

translation: primer

Name: Elementarz (The Primer)

Director: Wojciech Wiszniewski

music: Janusz Hajdun

Location: Jerzy Zielinski

Age: 1976

Color: Color

Length: 9 mins

White: Polish

Subtitles: English

Products: Wytwornia Filmow Oswiatowych

Awards: 81 Bolankela test Film Festival best cinematography, best music and best director FIPRESCI Award

This
extraordinary picture does not fit into any genre. It is a freak of
nature, a acinematic oddity like no other. It took considerable
bravery and imaginatio, or perhaps a bliss of ignorance as to the
implication of one's actions (common to the artists), to make a
film in which for the most part people recite the alphabet. The
primer symbolises a key to the people communicate and perceive the
world and traditions. The film is premeated with ugliness and
lifelessness, which are extraordinary lit and beautifully captured
by Jerzy Zielinski's camera. Tradition is dead, communication
between people has become ossified in its banal formats, we all
know the letters of the alphabet but cannot put them into sentences
which would express out true selves.

translation: carpenter

Name: Stolarz (The Carpenter)

Director: Wojciech Wiszniewski

Location: Ryszard Jaworski

Music: Janusz Hajdun

Age: 1976

Length: 13
mins

White: Polish

Subtitles: English

color: Black&White&Color

Products: Wytwornia Filmow Oswiatowych

Awards: 81 Bolankela test Film Festival Best Cinematography ( "primer"tied) &
81 Germany Oberhausen international film festival for best documentary

The
film is reminiscent of "Gosciminska"by virtue of both analogy and
a reversal. Both films are based on a written text - a colloquially
worded document written and read out by the protagonist, which
initially takes form of curriculum vitae, but as it progresses
begins to sound more like a letter of complaint. The protagonist's
account spans from the pre-war to the post-war period. What is
reversed is the relationship accounts and the film footage
illustrating them. The unique method of editing archive material is
particularly worthy of note. As each take is replayed a number of
times the footage looses its credibility.