Chris Knipp
08-05-2009, 10:23 PM
BORYS MUSIELAK is a young Polish-born film buff living in London whom I've been in contact with recently who has co-founded a website called FILMASTER (http://filmaster.com/).
Borys recently covered the NEW ERA HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL held in Wroclaw, Poland and sent me his coverage or what he prefers to call his "impressions." Take a look. (http://michuk.filmaster.com/review/era-new-horizons-9-film-festival-impressions/) It would be nice to have Borys as a member but we have a problem with introducing new contributors at this point so I will just act as his go-between for now.
Borys writes:
I just came back from Wroclaw, Poland which for the last 10 days hosted the international film festival "Era New Horizons" (http://www.enh.pl/index.do?lang=en). The main idea of the festival is to show the movies that "reach beyond the borders of conventional cinema", both new and old ones. It's the biggest film event for the masses in Poland. Tens of thousands of cinema lovers watch new movies from all around the world as well as take part in retrospectives of masters of cinema. There are also many exhibitions, performances and concerts that make Era a truly cross-cultural event. Borys plans to watch the overall winner of the festival, Steve McQueen's Hunger, which I highly recommend and which as he mentions has already been shown extensively in theaters in England; but generally he chose to focus more on retrospectives and documentaries, feeling they were "better value for money."
The main retrospectives were of Guy Maddin, Tsai Ming-liang, and Jan Troell, who were on hand to discuss their work. Another series of the festival Borys followed was Hungarian Golden Age, featuring Hungarian films of the Sixties. He also sampled the documentaries and, logically, since this was Poland, the series of new Polish films. You'll find brief discussions of all of these by Borys at the link above. This was a festival I knew nothing about and worth being aware of, even if we can't make it to Wroclaw any time soon.
Borys invites Filmleaf members to join FILMASTER (http://filmaster.com/). You can reach him at borys.musielak@gmail.com. You can find out more about him at his website (http://borys.musielak.eu/en/). He's a tech (Java) support person for a London IT consulting firm called Rule Financial. He did a year of high school in Michigan and as a university student had an Erasmus year in London, which helps explain his fluency in English.
Borys recently covered the NEW ERA HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL held in Wroclaw, Poland and sent me his coverage or what he prefers to call his "impressions." Take a look. (http://michuk.filmaster.com/review/era-new-horizons-9-film-festival-impressions/) It would be nice to have Borys as a member but we have a problem with introducing new contributors at this point so I will just act as his go-between for now.
Borys writes:
I just came back from Wroclaw, Poland which for the last 10 days hosted the international film festival "Era New Horizons" (http://www.enh.pl/index.do?lang=en). The main idea of the festival is to show the movies that "reach beyond the borders of conventional cinema", both new and old ones. It's the biggest film event for the masses in Poland. Tens of thousands of cinema lovers watch new movies from all around the world as well as take part in retrospectives of masters of cinema. There are also many exhibitions, performances and concerts that make Era a truly cross-cultural event. Borys plans to watch the overall winner of the festival, Steve McQueen's Hunger, which I highly recommend and which as he mentions has already been shown extensively in theaters in England; but generally he chose to focus more on retrospectives and documentaries, feeling they were "better value for money."
The main retrospectives were of Guy Maddin, Tsai Ming-liang, and Jan Troell, who were on hand to discuss their work. Another series of the festival Borys followed was Hungarian Golden Age, featuring Hungarian films of the Sixties. He also sampled the documentaries and, logically, since this was Poland, the series of new Polish films. You'll find brief discussions of all of these by Borys at the link above. This was a festival I knew nothing about and worth being aware of, even if we can't make it to Wroclaw any time soon.
Borys invites Filmleaf members to join FILMASTER (http://filmaster.com/). You can reach him at borys.musielak@gmail.com. You can find out more about him at his website (http://borys.musielak.eu/en/). He's a tech (Java) support person for a London IT consulting firm called Rule Financial. He did a year of high school in Michigan and as a university student had an Erasmus year in London, which helps explain his fluency in English.