Movies: Krzysztof Penderecki

Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue....

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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 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....

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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....

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A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki...

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...

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...

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

Ijon Tichy arrives on a new planet in a single-person spacecraft. His habits and fantasies are with him. The aliens recreate the sex bomb from the poster that could be found in the cabin of his spacecraft. Then, they present him a live dummy. A male-...

An old beekeeper and a little boy look into a hive. A brown-yellow shape and a black ball of a motile swarm begin to move on the surface of the screen. Physical reality turns into abstract forms....

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

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

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

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...

An elderly traveler arrives on an alien planet. The natives greet him friendly. Cosmic virgins want to clone the guest so that each of them would have him for herself. The man from planet Earth manages to escape, but his clones remain where they are....

A modest tailor sews a cape in his basement. He would like to use it to fly. Modern machines change other people. The tailor remains the same, old-fashioned person. Persecuted, he escapes on the sewing machine and rises into the air. He flies among t...