Micro-seminars on polish cinema:
March 20, 17:00 – 19:00, Lögberg 101: The best of Kieslowski (plus screening of "Still Alive" - documentary film on Kieslowski)
Kieslowski's films focus on universal issues. They are experienced in a similar way by everyone no matter where they come from. Love, death, jealousy, sadness, despair, the choice between good and evil – these are all human problems, dilemmas and feelings. As a result, everyone is able to understand and identify with these films and their subject matter is universal.
March 22, 17:00 – 19:00, Lögberg 101: Transformation in Poland after 1989 in Film (plus screening of "The Purimspiel")
After 26 years of political and economic transformation in Poland, after its deep identity crises and a period of foreign (mostly American) influences, polish cinema is rising and found itself to be a part of the new reality at last.
Mirosław Jelonkiewicz is a lecturer at the Polonicum Centre of Polish Language and Culture at the University of Warsaw since 1974 and teaches Polish as a foreign language. Mr. Jelonkiewicz specializes in teaching Polish History and Culture through films. Over the last 25 years his articles on teaching culture have been published in Polish periodicals such as Polonicum Quaterly or Postscriptum. He has taught Polish Culture in over a dozen European universities as member of Erasmus program for teachers. In 1984-89 Mr Jelonkiewicz taught Polish at the University of New Delhi in India.