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      • Wojciech Has — retrospective confirmed

        Following last years Polish Poster Art exhibition and City Eye focus on Gdansk, we’ll again be working with our partners at the Polish Cultural Institute. This year we will be presenting a retrospective of the films by Wojciech Has. Often described as a surrealist, fans of his work include Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Jerry Garcia and Luis Bunuel.

        Internationally his best known work is perhaps The Saragossa Manuscript, described as ‘Simultaneously horrific, erotic and funny … this is one mother of a film” – David Lynch. It is widely regarded as one of the landmark films in Poland’s rich cinematic history.

        Following the success of The Saragossa Manuscript, Has went on to win the Special Jury Award in Cannes 1973 for his next feature The Hour Glass Sanatorium, which has been compared to the work of Bunuel and Gilliam.

        The retrospective will also feature some of his earlier films Noose, Farewells and How to Be Loved.

        Has was appointed as a professor in the directing department at the Lodz Film School in 1974. The 60th anniversary of this eminent school was celebrated last year during CINECITY when we screened a selection of shorts by graduates from the school.

      • Mark Lewis

        It is confirmed our main Artists’ Moving Image feature  for the 2009 festival will be internationally acclaimed film-artist Mark Lewis who has just returned  to London from the Venice Biennale and his series of four films  entitled ‘Cold Morning’ at the Canadian Pavilion.

        Mark will screen three moving image works including  the international premiere of his newest work, currently under construction.

        His practice is focused on the many ways in which the time and space of moving image can transform the pictorial conventions of landscape, portraiture and genre scenes. Many monographs have been produced on his work and it has been exhibited widely:  BFI Southbank, London:  Cetro Andluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla; Vancouver Art Gallery;  Whitney Museum of American Art, Mori Art Museum,  Tokyo; Tate Britain, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris.  For more details visit www.marklewisstudio.com

        “Mark Lewis  film work has returned to he problem of modernity, to the dilemma of its irretrievable pastness on the one hand and it’s continued centrality to it’s thought about art and politics on the other.  In the choice of rear- projection resurrects an archaic technology that shares some attributes of the aesthetics of modernity” Laura Mulvey

        The Exhibition will run for a month from 20th November – 12th December at the University of Brighton Gallery.