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Thu 26 November, 3 December, 10 December 2015, 19:00 Cinema Room Admission free Thu 26 November, 19:00 Tadeusz Kantor’s MannequinsDocumentary; written and directed by Andrzej Sapija; photography by Przemys³aw Skwirczyñski; music by Henryk Ku¼niak; sound by Zdzis³aw Grzelka; edited by Anna Nawrocka; produced by Educational Film Studio in £ód¼; Poland, 1983; 33 minutes In Polish with English subtitles Tadeusz Kantor’s Mannequins is a personal documentary about the artist and theatre director Tadeusz Kantor. It includes short excerpts from archival recordings of Cricot 2 performances and photographs from the troupe’s rehearsals. It also shows Kantor working on his artistic objects, incorporating quotations that illustrate the essential ideas of the inventor of the Reality of the Lowest Rank concept.
Thu 3 December, 19:00 Tadeusz Kantor’s Return of OdysseusDocumentary; written and directed by Andrzej Sapija; photography by Tomasz Wert, Przemys³aw Skwirczyñski and Andrzej Sapija; sound by Piotr Domaradzki; edited by Hanna Wojtczyk-Kisiela; music selected and edited by Bogumi³a K³opotowski; produced by Educational Film Studio in £ód¼ for Telewizja Polska; Poland, 1988; 59 minutes In Polish with English subtitles Shot during rehearsals for I Will Never Return Here, the film premiered in April 1988 at Teatro Studio in Milan. Tadeusz Kantor counted it among the best films about his work. The Return explores the core ideas at the centre of Kantor’s art, giving voice to the artist’s writings, notes and interviews. Thu 10 December, 19:00 Rehearsals, Only RehearsalsDocumentary; written and directed by Andrzej Sapija, photography by Marek Stefañski; edited by Barbara Konstantin and Aleksander Stefañski; narrated by Jan Bielecki; produced by the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor Cricoteka; Poland, 1992; 74 minutes In Polish with English subtitles The film is based on a nearly 50-hour-long video recording of all the rehearsals for Tadeusz Kantor’s Cricot 2’s last performance piece Today Is My Birthday. The rehearsals were recorded by Cricoteka in Kraków between 13 October 1989 and 7 December 1990. Today Is My Birthday premiered after Tadeusz Kantor’s death (8 December 1990) in the Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse on 10 January 1991. Courtesy of the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor Cricoteka
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