Irzykowski Studio, i.e. I love film

This performance is inspired by interviews with artists and a master's thesis by Kamila Matuszewska, Działalność Studia Filmowego im. Karola Irzykowskiego / The Story of the Karol Irzykowski Film Studio (Łódź 2008)

The Karol Irzykowski Film Studiowas active between 1981 and 2005, and during that time, it traveled the road from the idealism of its young members, the struggle against Communist censorship, through the stern reality of capitalism. For 24 years, everyone banded together under the common motto of Film is the most important thing! But there was something more, something akin to a belief in a calling, a mission, or the youthful conviction of being righteous and strong.

The performance is a theatrical version of an interview between an actor (Andrzej Chyra), who personifies the collective hero (i.e. individuals associated at various times and in various ways with the studio) and a young student (Katarzyna Michalska) writing her master's thesis about the studio. The dialogs are a collage from various source materials found by the screenwriter, Elżbieta Tarnowska, including production memos, notes and interviews, fragments of internal and press reviews, anecdotes about the studio and fragments of the master's thesis. The effect is a clash of two ways to look at the studio's oeuvre. The first perspective is one shared by people who worked with the studio, while the other represents the point of view of today's young generation. The performance will include audio and video materials.