Maciej Jarczyński :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Maciej Jarczyński

About the artist

Graduated from two artistic schools in Gdańsk: the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Music. Apart from that he also completed post-graduate studies at the Jagellonian University in Cracow. He is currently earning his PhD at the University of Gdańsk. For several years, as a musician and visual artist, he has been interested in the correspondence of the arts; he makes short films and composes his own music for them.

Filmography:

Oddech (2015)

Chór (2015)
85625 (2014)
Portret (2014)
Hugon: portrecista świata niewidzialnego (2014)

Gallery

Films

85625, 18’25’’

Production: PL 2014

When it comes to expression, this documentary is built on: its protagonist's narration, painting, and the director's music. The verbal layer consists of Zbigniew Kołakowski's memories of war. As a teenage boy he survived two concentration camps: in Sachsenhausen and in Flossenburg. He worked at the crematorium. When he got there he thought it would postpone his death by two weeks (that was how often they changed the crematorium staff). It is a powerful film, in the protagonist's own words. And thanks to the protagonist himself – one that gives hope.