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The PCI New York and MoMI present a series of films WAYS TO FREEDOM
October 25, 2014
WAYS TO FREEDOM a reference to Wojciech Marczewski's movie Escape from the Liberty Cinema (Ucieczka z kina "Wolnosc," 1990) encompasses a series of film screenings, discussions, public lectures, and conversations with artists and activists, devoted to the democratic changes of 1989 in Poland.
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Thursday, November 13, 2014 - Sunday, November 23, 2014 |
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WAYS TO FREEDOM a reference to Wojciech Marczewski's movie Escape from the Liberty Cinema (Ucieczka z kina " Wolnosc ," 1990) encompasses a series of film screenings, discussions, public lectures, and conversations with artists and activists, devoted to the democratic changes of 1989 in Poland. All films in Polish with English subtitles Thursday, November 13 7:00 Blind Chance + From a Night Porter's Point of View Blind Chance introduced by Annette Insdorf Friday, November 14 7:00 Interrogation Introduced by Sheila Skaff Saturday, November 15 2:00 Smaller Sky 4:30 Escape from the Liberty Cinema Introduced by Andrzej Krakowski Sunday, November 16 3:30 Man of Iron 7:00 Mother of Kings Introduced by Michal Oleszczyk Saturday, November 22 2:00 Ratcatcher, Fan, My Notes from the Underground 4:30 Hear My Scream, Where To Saturday, November 23 2:00 Shivers The long-standing collaboration between the Polish Cultural Institute New York and the Museum of the Moving Image continues with the project WAYS TO FREEDOM, conceived by the KINO POLSKA Foundation and the Digital Film Repository in Poland to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first partly-free parliamentary elections in Poland, and, in a wider context, the major democratic changes which took place in Poland in 1989. The PCI New York and MoMI present a series of films documenting the changes Poland has undergone on its long and arduous road towards democracy. Screenings of 13 films (7 features and 6 documentaries) will give context and background to an extremely tumultuous but fascinating period in Poland's history. The films will be introduced by Annette Insdorf of Columbia University, acclaimed film critic and scholar of the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski, Michal Oleszczyk, a well-known Polish film critic and the newly-appointed director of the Gdynia Film Festival, Polands largest festival of feature films; Sheila Skaff - Administrative Director of the Masters of Art Program in the New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study in NYC, as well as Andrzej Krakowski, a film director and professor of Media Communication Arts at CUNY. Ways to Freedom is presented by Museum of the Moving Image in collaboration with Kino Polska Foundation, Digital Film Respository and the Polish Cultural Institute New York. |
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