Movies: Krzysztof Penderecki

Seen from the outside, it’s an old arch-windowed house overlooking a field isolated from the center of the village. But the rooms of this dark haven of demons hide unimaginable secrets. It was within those very four walls that an artist ordained to L...

A tribute to Martin Slivka, one of the most important personalities of Slovak cinematography and culture. He was the creator of Slovak documentary ethnographic film, director, screenwriter, dramaturgist, film theoretician, pedagogue, author and ethno...

Documentary illustrating the classic principles of Byzantine iconography on the examples of sixteen icons from a museum of ancient Greek art....

A film about Slovak icons painted in the period of the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, when original Byzantine icon was ending in Slovak folk art....

An experimental short film shot on iPhone 7 Plus during the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak. The film depicts a young man's love for arts and his struggle to coexist with his personas....

Persephone combines an excerpt from Penderecki’s “Cello Concerto No 1” with a static image of a shivering cat, emerging from the shade....

Bulandra the miner explores the underground and wins gold from its inhabitant, an old spirit. Little does he know that the Devil will cause mischief to him once he gets out....

Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil....

In this video, with every minute, the artist's body becomes more and more machine, element of a perfectly working clock mechanism, it becomes ornament; to the extent that at some point a new “organism” emerges, with the many Anetas playing the role o...

A film impression showing the Royal Sigismond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle as an interior with a unique and abundant collection of sculptures. It brings to light details of construction and presents them in close-ups which makes it possible to profou...

This film shows the artistic milieu at the Baltic Coast formerly knows as the “Sopot School”. In the film we can only see the remnants of this group, the individual artists, the differences and similarities between them, as well as the inspiration th...

Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue....

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The little naughty bunny is kidnapped by a fox and a wolf....

A Prussian general instructs his soldiers how to get rid of the storks bringing new lives. He turns the conscripts into cannon fodder, and he can't deal with one fly himself....

The adventures of a classic "podrywacz" character known from Molière's drama and Byron's poem, who has not lost popularity until today. All this is shown with a pinch of salt, in a grotesque form of a cut-out film, reminiscent of the comic book editi...

A story illustrating the legend of Bazyliszek who mischief among tenement houses in Warsaw's Old Town....

For decades the photographer Krzysztof Gierłatowski has portrayed eminent Polish figures, thus creating an invaluable visual testimony. This time his "victims" are well-known citizens of Kraków: Stanisław Lem, one of the most brilliant, versatile, an...

A swarm of locusts teases a herd of horses. A four-wheeled vehicle drives into the herd. It pulls behind its riders, the horses, and the insects. The gallop is more and more dynamic, gravediggers prepare coffins for crazy drivers....

An anti-alcohol poster full of bitterness. Artistic compositions made of bottles and alcohol labels tell the story of drinking alcohol – it starts from drinking alcohol as a young person and ends with the death on the operating table....