LONDON: The Horse Hospital

Thursday 13th October, 2016

7:00pm

Event information

Writer and filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski, who passed away earlier this year, worked in different genres: war films (The Third Part of the Night), Gothic horror (The Devil, Possession), melodrama (The Most Important Thing is To Love, My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days, La Fidelite), thrillers (La Femme publique, Cosmos), science fiction (On the Silver Globe), costume dramas (La Note bleue),crime films (L'Amour braque), erotic dramas (Szamanka) - even musicals (Boris Godunov). However, all of Zulawski's films share the same fundamentally vulgar structure: the love triangle. This class looks at the love triangle fundamental to all of Zulawski's films and squares it with this remarkable director's life and loves.

About the Instructor:

Daniel Bird is a writer, filmmaker, and one of the world’s leading scholars on Eastern European cult cinema. He has curated numerous retrospectives, overseen film restorations, participated in DVD commentaries and is best known as the biographer of both Walerian Borowczyk and Andrzej Żuławski. Daniel Bird first interviewed Zulawski for Eyeball magazine with Stephen Thrower back in 1997. He organised 'A Weekend with Andrzej Zulawski', the first Anglophone overview of Zulawski's films, at the Cine Lumiere in 1998. The following year he visited the set of Zulawski's La Fidelite in Paris and worked with Anchor Bay Entertainment to release Possession on DVD in the U.S., for which he also moderated a commentary track with the director. Over the years he continued to work with Zulawski, liaising with festivals, distributors and producers on retrospectives, DVD releases and film projects. Last year he made the English subtitles for Zulawski's Cosmos and produced a restoration of On the Silver Globe.