"Russia-Poland. New Gaze" in USA
2007-11-18
The Polish Cultural Institute
presented
RUSSIA-POLAND. NEW GAZE SECOND OF THREE PROGRAMS IN A SERIES OF NEW DOCUMENTARIES BY YOUNG POLISH AND RUSSIAN FILMMAKERS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2007, 8 PM - PART I
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2007, 8 PM – PART II
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2007, 8 PM – PART III
GALAPAGOS ART SPACE
70 North 6th Street (between Kent and Wythe, Williamsburg), Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tel. (718) 782-5188
Free admission
Second of three programs of Short Films from an innovative experiment in international understanding:
RUSSIA IN THE EYES OF POLES, POLAND IN THE EYES OF RUSSIANS
Following the warm reception of Part One by a full-house international audience on September 30, the second is a three-part series of films will be shown at Galapagos Art Space on Sunday, October 28, at 8 p.m. In a innovative program of cross-cultural encouner called Russia-Poland. New Gaze, selected film students from a number of film schools in Russia “traded places” with their counterparts from film schools in Poland to make short documentary films about each other’s countrymen. As a group the films offer intriguing personal glimpses – a “new gaze” – into the lives of “others”, with the similarities at least as startling as the contrasts. The enthusiastic young film-school students used their talents and skills to explore who those "Poles" and "Russians" really are. These films thus came to life through the confrontation of prejudices with spontaneous interactions, and the collision of expectations with facts, bringing us closer to the truth about the stereotypes dividing these two nations.
The films have been shown over 300 times throughout Europe and cumulatively have garnered nearly thirty awards. (Part Three will be shown on Sunday, November 18, at 8 p.m.)
Russia-Poland. New Gaze was co-produced by Eureka Media and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, with further financial support from the Polish Film Institute and in collaboration with the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing, Gerasimov All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television, K. Kieslowski Faculty of Radio and Television at University of Silesia, Polish Television, and the European Documentary Network.
Project curator: Mateusz Werner
Tutors and art supervisors: Maciej Drygas, Andrzej Fidyk, Vladimir Fienchenko, Dmitriy Kabakov, Tue Steen Müller, Jacek Petrycki, Dorota Wardęszkiewicz, Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
Producer: Krzysztof Kopczyński
Co-producer for Polish Television TVP SA: Witold Będkowski