Work on the set is creative effort in extremely unfavourable conditions. The crew work under time pressure and against difficulties which seem to conspire against the film. Each take is almost snatched from the throat of a monster whose aim is to prevent the film from being made, and has attacked using any possible weapon \u2013 bad weather, actor\u2019s illness, conflict between the cameraman and the director. Situation is like before a Christmas Eve dinner, when nothing is ready and the guests are arriving in five minutes. And on top of that, in the centre of it all there is a strange camera\u2019s eye that is supposed to record the making of the whole film.<\/p>\n
Great masters of cinematography \u2013 Andrei Tarkovsky or Akira Kurosawa \u2013 have in their output film materials documenting their work on the set. It is difficult to say whether a similar tradition existed in the Polish cinematography \u2013 on the one hand, the filmmakers were often visited by the Polish Film Chronicle, and on the other \u2013 only few films\u2019 production process is accompanied by a documentary about it. A prerequisite for recording good film set material is certainly the director\u2019s trust in its author.<\/p>\n
Films presented during the festival Etiuda&Anima 2015 represent various documentary forms. From pure recordings (Andrzej Wajda liked On the Set<\/em>\/Na Planie <\/em>by Jerzy Ziarnik so much that he planned to incorporate its fragments into his film Everything for Sale (Wszystko na sprzeda\u017c<\/em>), a documentary with narrator\u2019s voice off the camera (150 days of the Pharaoh<\/em>\/150 dni<\/em> Faraona<\/em>), to a film joke like, without a doubt, Kie\u015blowski\u2019s Slate<\/em> (Klaps). <\/em>Kieslowski\u2019s title slate creates the film\u2019s reality, and at the same time reveals its symbolic nature; it also stresses a certain absurdity of the situation. Delivering the same lines many times (\u201cwhat a lot of rubbish\u201d is repeated by a person during the meeting), and presenting actors\u2019 mistakes or unintentionally comic situations seem to constitute arguments supporting a thesis which in Kie\u015bowski\u2019s work reads: making a film is not a serious undertaking. Paradoxically, it is in this short (in which the film machinery appears not even once) where the whole specificity of a film set is visible \u2013 its repetitiveness, boredom and symbolism of the created world. After the sound of the slate a bloke bursts out laughing and the actors start off with a heavy piece of furniture. And then \u2013 one more time, and again one more time\u2026<\/p>\n Films from the set presented during the festival were made by directors and cameramen who impressed a permanent mark in the Polish cinematography. This is what gives them additional value, apart from the pleasure of looking behind the scenes that they provide.<\/p>\n Adam Lewandowski<\/p>\n Polish making of<\/strong><\/p>\n Rotunda (large screening room) \n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Work on the set is creative effort in extremely unfavourable conditions. The crew work under time pressure and against difficulties which seem to conspire against the film. Each take is almost snatched from the throat of a monster whose aim is to prevent the film from being made, and has attacked using any possible weapon […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n28th<\/sup> November (Saturday), 2.30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n