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We would like to invite you to a meeting around Marcin Giżycki's book "Cinema of Artists and Women Artists. From Méliès to Maciunas", which will take place on October 18 at the Faculty of New Media Arts of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Gdansk (55 Brzegi Street, auditorium B015) at 4:00 pm.
Marcin Giżycki's book "Cinema of Artists and Women Artists. From Méliès to Maciunas" is a unique compendium of cinema knowledge. In it, the author describes impossible-to-find films and provides hard-to-find information, while familiarizing us with avant-garde cinema. He also shows that film - which art history for decades treated as a side phenomenon - was in fact an important means of expression for male and female artists. Marcin Giżycki offers the author's history of cinema created by male and female artists who were also active in other fields of art or were associated with the main directions of 20th century art. The first part of the book consists of chapters discussing films and artists associated with movements of the first half of the 20th century, such as Cubism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Constructivism and Surrealism.
The discussion on the work of Marcin Giżycki and his latest book "Cinema of Artists and Women Artists. From Méliès to Maciunas" will participate:
Agnieszka Taborska - writer, romanist, surrealism expert, translator of Philippe Soupault, Gisèle Prassinos, Spalding Gray and Roland Topor. She lives in Warsaw and Providence (USA), where she teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. Author of more than 20 books translated into several languages, including: "Conspirators of the Imagination. Surrealism"; "American Crumbs"; "The Dream Life of Leonora de la Cruz"; "The Whale, or Objective Coincidence"; "Not Like Paradise"; "The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks", "Chosen Place". Theatrical productions and animated films have been based on her prose. Her tales for children and adults have won awards in Poland and Germany. Recent titles include: "The Man Who Waits. Pandemic in the mansard"; "The world gone mad. A Surrealist's Guide. How to survive"; "Roland Topor's Archipelagos.
Adam Trwoga - art historian and film scholar; lecturer in contemporary art history, cinema history and animation film theory at the Faculty of New Media Arts of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Computer Science in Warsaw, as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He has published in "Film Quarterly", "Dialogue", "Czas Kultury", "Pleograph" and collective volumes, among others. As a scientific editor (together with Marcin Giżycki), he published the books "Magia Animacji. From the Animator's Archive" (2016), "#animation PJATK" (2016) and "Does the Master Know He Won. A Jubilee Book for Professor Daniel Szczechura" (2020).
Pawel Sitkiewicz - film and media expert, employee of the University of Gdansk. His scholarly interests include the history of animated cinema in Poland and around the world, the film culture of the interwar period and the prehistory of comics. Author of books: Small Great Cinema (2009), Polish School of Animation (2011) and Mickey and the Mouse. Walt Disney and cartoon film in pre-war Poland (2012). He has published in "Film Quarterly," "Dialogue," "Screens," "Panoptikum," "Popular Culture," "Images," "Zeszyty Komiksowe" and collective volumes, among others. Co-author of three books for children.
The book discussion will be accompanied by a presentation of photographs by Marcin Giżycki.
From October 12-18, the publisher's website www.terytoria.com.pl will offer the opportunity to purchase Professor Giżycki's book at a special discount of -40%.
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