The Beksińskis. A Sound and Picture Album

Date
Hour
Place
30/07
16:45
THE SMALL CINEMA


Beksińscy. Album wideofoniczny
reż|dir Marcin Borchardt | PL | 2017 | 80 min
prod|pro Dariusz Dikti scen|wr Marcin Borchardt muz|mus Marcin Dymiter mon|ed Dominik Jagodziński ob|cast Zdzisław Beksiński, Tomasz Beksiński dys|dis Biuro Pomysłów

DESCRIPTION

Composed of archive records, the film retells the story of the Beksiński family throughout the decades. Released a year after Jan P. Matuszyński’s The Last Family, Borchardt’s documentary affirms the meticulous reconstruction undertaken by the creators biographical story. The script was inspired by the biography by Magdalena Grzebałkowska. The film comprises extracts from the Polish Film Chronicles, TV broadcasts, private recordings from a friend of the Beksiński family and photographer Jerzy Lewczyński, and Parisian art dealer Piotr Dmochowski. Most of the shots, however, are video and audio materials made by Zdzisław Beksiński himself, a testament to vanity and exhibitionism as well as evidence of toxic family relations.


AWARDS
2017 Krakow Film Festival – honorable mention in the international documentary film competition

DIRECTOR
Marcin Borchardt (1967) Screenwriter, director, film studies scholar, and former radio journalist. Directed documentaries, advertisements, video clips, and TV broadcasts. Teacher of short fiction film aesthetics at Gdynia Film School as well as avant-garde and experimental cinema and contemporary documentary films at University of Gdańsk. Author of the monograph The Avant-Garde Music at the End of the 20th Century. The Beginners’ Guide.

FILMOGRAPHY
2017 Beksińscy. Album wideofoniczny
2016 Wydźwięki // Resonances (krótki|short)
2014 Historie ponad granicami (krótki|short)
2014 Otwarta galeria. Rzeźby z metalu (krótki|short)
2014 Wydźwięki / Resonances (krótki|short)
2008 Andrzej Wajda ogląda „Popiół i diament” (krótki|short)

© Festiwal Filmu i Sztuki Dwa Brzegi Kazimierz Dolny Janowiec nad Wisłą
Projekt i realizacja: Tomasz Żewłakow