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When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
Andrzej Wajda
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Andrzej Wajda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 6
Died: 2016
Died: October 9
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Andrzej Witold Wajda
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It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
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The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
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At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.
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As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
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Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
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In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
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Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
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By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.
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Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.
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On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.
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The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
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Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
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There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.
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One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.
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On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
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However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
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It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
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In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
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Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
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Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
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