{"id":13714,"date":"2017-11-23T20:26:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etiudaandanima.com\/?p=13714"},"modified":"2017-11-23T20:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T19:27:57","slug":"georges-melies-and-theatrum-magicum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/news\/georges-melies-and-theatrum-magicum\/","title":{"rendered":"Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s and Theatrum Magicum"},"content":{"rendered":"

During such festival as Etiuda&Anima there simply must be some kind of event combining both film and music. We invite you all to a screening of Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s\u2019 movies with live music of guitarist Kuba Duda, as well as to a screening of \u201cTheatrum Magicum\u201d, a remarkable project of Marcin Gi\u017cycki, inspired by work of Jan Potocki. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s was a cinematography pioneer. He was an amazing film director and a prestidigitator. The screening of his films, which were kindly lend to us by National Film Achieve of Prague, is a real find for film enthusiasts.\u00a0 The films speak volumes about the true genius of their maker, as well as\u00a0 about the level of his creative invention and imagination. An additional attraction is a music performance of a guitarist - Kuba Duda - during the film screening.<\/p>\n

The second part of the evening is going to focus on \u201eTheatrum Magicum\u201d, a film directed by Marcin Gi\u017cycki. As the director says himself, the idea for the movie came to him in 2007 which is nearly 100 years after M\u00e9li\u00e8s made his. Gi\u017cycki wanted to make a silent movie. This 24-minutes long film required huge amount of work, a big number of crew members, numerous costumes, as well as a considerable budget. And it is definitely worth it.<\/p>\n

Natalia Szczepanek<\/p>\n

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A vague idea for the film Theatrum Magicum<\/em>, even without a title, emerged soon after an animators conference which I organized in 2007 at the \u0141a\u0144cut Castle. Wit W\u00f3jtowicz, the director of the museum and a great animated film lover, let us meet in the court theatre, in which count Jan Potocki, author of The Manuscript Found in Saragossa<\/em> (R\u0119kopis znaleziony w Saragossie) <\/em>staged his short plays called The<\/em> Parades<\/em> (Parady<\/em>), in 1792, to the delight of the castle dwellers. In the\u00a0 meantime, the Quay brothers, who also participated in the conference, were working on their impression document Inventorium of Traces<\/em>, in which they looked for some traces of the count`s presence in the castle chambers. Having watched this interesting and unconventional film, I thought that I would look for the spirit of Jan Potocki in the theatre, little displayed in the film by the famous twins from London. That is why I again reached for inspiration to my favourite read, namely The Parades<\/em>, and the idea for a film started to materialize quickly.<\/p>\n

The count`s plays are based predominantly on funny, absurd dialogues (yet they do not lack situational humour, whose elements were also transferred to the film). However, I preferred a silent film and I did not want to make yet another adaptation of many-times- performed one-act plays. But the characters seemed colourful enough for me not to want to give them up. And so I borrowed them from the count and made them members of an itinerant prestidigitator`s troupe; however, I left the relationships between them just as they were in Potocki`s play.\u00a0 Kasander, a burgher, became the prestidigitator, but Zerzabella, his amorous daughter, Gil - a servant in love with her, and Zerzabella`s admirer, Leander, were taken straight from The Parades<\/em>. And if we have a prestidigitator on stage, a professional association with Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s appears naturally. However, it did not stop at literary and film associations, as our M\u00e9li\u00e8s takes certain things after baron M\u00fcnchhausen from Gustave Dor\u00e9`s illustration.<\/p>\n

Marcin Gi\u017cycki<\/p>\n

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KUBA DUDA<\/span><\/strong>
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Kuba Duda is a young guitarist and the author of instrumental music, which leaves space for your thoughts and imaginations to flow freely. During solo acts he plays his own compositions on guitar using various techniques and effects. His cloudy noir style of playing reminds masters of improvised solo guitar like Marc Ribot, Aram Bajakian and Raphael Rogi\u0144ski. He opened two concerts in Cracow for Jozef Van Wissem \u2013 lute player and the author of music score for Jim Jarmusch\u2019s movie \u201eOnly Lovers Left Alive\u201d. Some listeners compare the mood of his music to soundtracks from David Lynch's and Jim Jarmusch's movies, which had large influence on his style. To enrich solo acts he screens old film reels on analog projectors, which make the atmosphere even more dreamy. In march 2017 he released instrumental solo album which was recorded at home. Compositions are untitled, numbered only with Roman numerals. They tell stories without the words and listeners can\u00a0 interpret them on their own. Beside solo acts he plays with the band Patrick The Pan. In the past he collaborated with Vladimirska, The Silver Owls, Teddy Jr. and The Undertakers and Limboski.<\/p>\n

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Georges M\u00e9lies and others<\/strong>
\nfrom the archive of N\u00e1rodni<\/strong>
\nFilmov\u00fd Archiv in Prague<\/strong>
\n24th November (Friday), 10.30 pm. <\/strong>
\nKij\u00f3w Centrum \u2013 Large Screening Room <\/strong>
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Theatrum Magicum<\/strong>
\n(dir. Marcin Gi\u017cycki, Poland 2017, 23 min.)
\n24th November (Friday), 10.30 pm. <\/strong>
\nKij\u00f3w Centrum \u2013 Large Screening Room <\/strong><\/p>\n

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During such festival as Etiuda&Anima there simply must be some kind of event combining both film and music. We invite you all to a screening of Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s\u2019 movies with live music of guitarist Kuba Duda, as well as to a screening of \u201cTheatrum Magicum\u201d, a remarkable project of Marcin Gi\u017cycki, inspired by work of […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[270,331,303],"class_list":["post-13714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-24-iff-etiudaanima","tag-georges-melies-and-theatrum-magicum","tag-news-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13716,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions\/13716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}