Catalogue des films de « Jan Freda »

A report from a horse race, showing not only its difficulty, but also filmed behind the scenes – the fate of the animals, their fear, fatigue and death. Close-ups, repetitions, slow motion, black-and-white mixed with colour, silence in contrast...

A subjective visual essay depicting the works and the imaginative world of famous polish painter Zdzislaw Beksinski. Bogdan Dziworski adopts the recurring motifs of Zdzislaw Beksinski’s paintings as lines of a surrealistic poem: an enormous...

A film about the overcoming of physical handicap, thanks to courage, perseverance and humor. The hero of the film is a thirty seven year-old man who lost both hands at the age of twelve, Jerzy Orlowski. In spite of the severe disability he lives...

Made in Krynica-Zdrój, where Dziworski was born and spent his childhood, this film is a visual parody of the world of sanatoriums, holidays and social competitions: the lowest level of the indigenous entertainment industry becomes a devastating...

Portrait of Wladyslaw Kurpiewski, the master of fencing who teaches next generations of Polish Olympic competitors with a touching pedagogical passion. It’s a film about human gestures and self-mastery: the elegance of fencing is doubled by the...

A portrait of an Austrian skier-celebrity of the late seventies, Franz Klammer. Lumberjack scenes, images of big falls, leaping in the air in an opera house, diving: it’s a formally constructed work that departs from most norms of documentary...

An unusual documentary film about the life of the circus. Bogdan Dziworski chooses to show a calm but penetrating observation of circus artists during performances and at leisure time than to plunge us into a spectacular and "felliniesque" vision...

A film about the act of creation, in which the representation of the artist's different emotions and her relation to environment shows how the creative process develops to its end. The act of seeing is analyzed with delicacy and precision: from...

A film about the beauty of skiing and the risk connected with it. The camera accompanies the competitors presenting their breathtaking skills: with a clever antiheroic choice Bodgan Dziworski prefers not to show only the moments of success and joy...

Film shot during skiing competition for children in Zakopane: first sport experiences, taste of victory and taste of defeat. The beginning has a fairy tale tone: a big rabbit snowman looks after the children and their efforts to become like adult...