Malga kubiak biography of donald
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Women on film competition
Entrants’ inspirations, part three:
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Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Jennifer Corcoran, London, UK
I first came across the Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski (above) when I was 17 years old, discovering his world-renowned Three Colours (1993-1994) trilogy in one of my early forays into foreign cinema. Three Colours Blue (1993), the first in the series, had a particularly lasting impact. Intimate, spare and profoundly moving, it was the film that made me fall in love with cinema, while the blue-saturated cinematography would set the aesthetic standards for my film-viewing habits for years to come.
Kieslowski began his filmmaking career in do
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italian writer, filmskapare, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)
"Pasolini" redirects here. For other people with that surname, see Pasolini (surname). For the 2014 film, see Pasolini (film).
Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
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Pasolini in 1964 | |
| Born | (1922-03-05)5 March 1922 Bologna, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 2 November 1975(1975-11-02) (aged 53) Ostia, Italy |
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| Alma mater | University of Bologna |
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian:[ˈpjɛrˈpaːolopazoˈliːni]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, spelfilm director, writer, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist and a political figure.[1][2][3][4] He is known for directing The Gospel According to St. Matthew, the films from Trilogy of Life (The Decameron, The Cante
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Libido and Thanatos
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Art channelMałga Kubiak
My libido and thanatos are not and have never been the opposing forces. They are the leading force. The leading force in my life, that is in my film, because film is what I do, create, live and breathe; it is what makes me horribly conceited, as I make no deals and join no coteries. I first gave up on a full-blown career at the moment of my birth (the midwife pushed me out of my mother’s womb and called me a dancer, maybe a ballerina), and later at the birth of my children. I gave birth to my daughter when I was 18 years old, quite publicly, in the University Hospital, observed by a group of girls; it was then that I became a strongwoman.
Throughout my pregnancy I was taken care of by the Hospital Director Dr Rużyłło, who was a friend of my grandmother W.E. Szymańska, née Koziełło. Oh, my old age; I still haven’t noticed that I grew old. Pretty inte