| Theatre Cinema: Tadeusz Kantor |
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Mon 8 December 2014, 19:00 / Cinema Room Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear… Documentary including Teatr Cricot 2’s performance, directed by Andrzej Sapija, photography by Przemys³aw Skwirczyñski, sound by Zdzis³aw Grzelka, produced by Educational Film Studio in £ód¼ with the support of Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Poland; 1985; 33 minutes This screening is being held to mark the 24th anniversary of Tadeusz Kantor’s death. In Polish with English subtitles Composed of thirteen episodes/scenes with no common narrative thread, this piece by Tadeusz Kantor, inspired, among other things, by the song “Our Little Town is Burning” by Mordechai Gebirtig, is a séance of individual and collective memory. Slightly different visually from The Dead Class, it heralds Kantor’s later Death Theatre work, particularly Wielopole, Wielopole and I Shall Never Return. It premiered in 1979 at Palazzo delle Espozisioni in Rome.  |