Paweł Kuczyński - Delos Films

latest news:

December 18. On this sad day, as a tribute to Vaclav Havel a fragment of his 2010 interview (for "Lawnswood Gardens") has been posted on http://www.youtube.com/hermesnow

October 21, Warsaw. "Light Denied" at the Polish Academy of Sciences during the conference "Cultural status of a creator: genius or madness" (The Philosophy and Sociology Institute.)

October 6, Warsaw University, "Lawnswood Gardens" screens under the auspices of Polish Sociological Society. With Q&A

September 22, "Lawnswood Gardens" (with Q&A) during "Filozofia Filmowo", Olsztyn.

Pawel received a Ph.D. in "the art of filmmaking" from PWSFTviT in Lodz.

June 11th. The Popper's Synagogue, Cracow. Promotion of "Toward a philosophical cinema."

"Engaging watchfulness: about film essays of Paweł Kuczyński" written by Michał Oleszczyk is a part of just published "Toward a philosophical cinema." Anthology editor: Urszula Tes. Publisher: WAM.

April 2, "Poland for Japan", a charity concert. Pawel donated his filmmaking services. A resulting documentary is here.

The last year's mini retrospective of Pawel's films just got write ups (in Polish) - link

"LAWNSWOOD GARDENS"
A documentary about Zygmunt Bauman, "the world's most significant sociologist", also explores the links between his groundbreaking "Modernity and the Holocaust" and "Winter in the Morning", a Warsaw Ghetto memoir by Janina Bauman.

"A comprehensive and insightful portrait of an outstanding intellectual
who grants the camera an unusually close access".
Gazeta Wyborcza
"A unique documentary of a man with his personal details
and narratives showned in a non cliche, oryginal way."
Zielony Dziennik Warszawa

"LIGHT DENIED"
A search for "the Dionysian light" that mixes documentary battles over the meaning of life with one fictitious philosopher's descent into madness triggered by his study of Friedrich Nietzsche.

"This film will leave you contemplating its messages for days afterward."
Dan Pal, WDCB, College of DuPage Public Radio

"PHILOSOPHER'S PARADISE"
A filmmaker on a spiritual path struggles to understand his philosopher father, who denies the existence of God.

International Documentary Association
2004 InFACT official selection

"HERE COMES HUFFAMOOSE"
For a moment, the East Coast jam-rock band Huffamoose was The Next Big Thing signed to Interscope Records.

'One of "the greatest rock movies ever"'
Cameron Crowe in 2004 Premiere Magazine

This site is selective in "Fiction", "Documentaries" and "Corporate" categories. For example such Polish titles as "Yokohama" (1981 TV feature), "Seeing Wisdom" (2003 doc), 1990 commercials and many smaller US video productions from the 80s and 90s are not yet included.