Friday, 1听December听2017, 7:15pm
Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity听College, 海角社区
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A screening of the second part of Krzysztof Kie艣lowski's "Decalogue: The Ten Commandments" (Dekalog, 1988) series.听The screening will be introduced and followed with expert commentary and discussion with听Dr Matilda Mroz, Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex.
After the discussion, we invited all attendees to a wine reception next to the lecture theatre.
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The Criterion Collection writes the following of听Dekalog:
'This masterwork by Krzysztof Kie艣lowski is one of the twentieth century鈥檚 greatest achievements in visual storytelling. Originally made for Polish television,听Dekalog听focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure,听grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time. Shot by nine different cinematographers, with stirring music by Zbigniew听Preisner听and compelling performances from established and unknown actors alike,听Dekalog听arrestingly explores the unknowable forces that shape our lives'.
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Dr Matilda Mroz听is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. Her work听examines how international and transnational film and new screen media reconfigure our relationship to memory and history, particularly in the context of Holocaust studies. Dr Mroz's听research builds upon work conducted during her British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and appointment as Advisor in Film to the research group 鈥楳emory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine鈥�, based at the 海角社区. This international collaborative project investigated how the public memory of twentieth-century conflicts, expressed in visual forms, mediates the ways in which Eastern European nations develop in post-socialist space. Dr Mroz co-authored the volume听Remembering Katyn听(Polity, 2012), the first transnational study of the cultural memory of the Soviet massacres at Katyn, with a particular focus on the impact of Polish cinema in Eastern Europe.
