Kazimierz Karabasz
Kazimierz Karabasz ( born June 5, 1930 in Bydgoszcz ) is a Polish documentary filmmaker; He is considered a classic of the Polish post-war documentary film ( " Czarna Seria "). He is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and was a teacher of the young Krzysztof Kieslowski, with whom he worked his training after the end, and whose work has influenced decisively.
The " Karabasz school" - an informal aesthetic doctrine, which reached its peak in the 60s - emphasizes asceticism of realization: The documentarian is to avoid any production, reduce their own intervention in the reality to a minimum and as major contributors ordinary as possible, select hardly striking people. Only a sensitive view of the documentary - and the construction of the film - to make them unusual, familiar learning worthy purchase.
Career
1956 graduated Karabasz film school in Łódź ( Państwowa Wyższa szkole filmowa Telewysyjna i Teatralna in. Schillera Leona ). Since that time he has worked as a documentary filmmaker in the documentary Studios ( Wytwórni Filmów Dokumentalnych ) in Warsaw. At the moment he realized films for the film studio Kronika. He is Professor of Film School in Łódź and the author of over 30 documentaries of various lengths and several books dedicated to the documentary.
Filmography ( selection)
(Books )
- The patient eye ( Cierpliwe oko, Warsaw 1979)
- Without fiction ( Bez fikcji, Warsaw 1985)
- Odczytać czas, Łódź 1999