“Lawnswood Gardens"
a portrait of
Zygmunt Bauman
53 min. HD
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from "Lawnswood Gardens" |
also with
Janina Bauman
Mirosław Bałka
Anthony Bryant
Vaclav Havel
Aleksandra
Jasińska-Kania
Nina Kra¶ko
Griselda Pollock
Miloslav Petrusek
Jerzy Wiatr
and others
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"The world's most extraordinary and
significant
and famous sociologist"
- Griselda Pollock
“...his analysis of the Holocaust
shows
that it was not an
accident of the modern world”
- Vaclav Havel
“...he suddenly lights up this
darkness
with the notion of human solidarity...”
- Miroslaw Balka
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In
its main part the film documents a four day long spring 2010 visit to
1 Lawnswood Gardens (Leeds, UK) the home of
Zygmunt Bauman,
the world-renowned sociologist, philosopher and scholar.
The visitors, remaining mostly off screen, are prof. Anna
Zeidler-Janiszewska and Paweł Kuczynski. The visit yields a
warm
material dealing both with profound and mundane issues discussed in a
casual, yet engaging manner. This part offers a rare
chance for an informal meeting with the famed critic and challenger of
“liquid modernity”.
Through testimonials, analysis and recreations, the film
explores links between Bauman’s groundbreaking “Modernity and the
Holocaust” and “Winter in the morning”, a Warsaw Ghetto memoir by the
Professor’s wife Janina Bauman, who passed away in December
2009.
Modern dangers are further dealt with through the Bauman's
involvement/response to Mirosław Bałka’s
2009/2010 installation "How it is" at Turbine Hall/Tate
Modern.
The film also features the Professor's friends from Leeds: Anthony
Bryant and Griselda Pollock, as well as from Poland: Aleksandra
Jasińska-Kania, Nina Kra¶ko, Jerzy Wiatr and from the Czech Republic:
Miloslav Petrusek and Vaclav Havel. |
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producer/director/editor - Paweł Kuczyński
writers - Paweł Kuczyński/Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska
co-producers - Andrzej Chrzanowski/Anna Zeidler-Janiszewska
camera - Paweł Kuczyński/Piotr Rejmer
music - Robert Jurjendal
post production supervisor/on line editor - Piotr Rejmer
sound editors - Piotr Rejmer/Michał Dominowski
artistic consultant - Lydia Bauman
editing consultant - Agnieszka Bojanowska
production consultant - Ewa Jastrzębska
recreations from "Winter
in the Morning" by Janina Bauman:
cast - Nina Chrzanowska, Ludwik Przyrowski,
Robert Waćkowski, Wiesława Łukasik, Rafał Stryjewski
camera - Andrzej Belina-Brzozowski
make up - Zosia Andrusiak
costiume consultant - Katarzyna Lewińska
Produced with the
financial support from:
Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Paweł Potoroczyn
National Culture Center
Krzysztof Dudek
Autor's Society ZAiKS
Janusz Fogler
first "making off" available here
second "making off" available here
See blog for production updates.
a Delos Films production
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