THE BEKSIŃSKIS. A SOUND AND PICTURE ALBUM
POLISH TITLE: BEKSIŃSCY. ALBUM WIDEOFONICZNY
The story of an outstanding Polish painter, Zdzisław Beksiński, and his complicated relationship with his son, Tomek, an extremely popular music journalist who suffered from depression and made numerous attempts to commit suicide. The film is a startling, sometimes shocking, sometimes moving family drama documentary which has been painstakingly reconstructed using audio recordings, film and photographs from the Beksińskis’ private archive, material that has never been made public in this form before. The screenplay is based on Magdalena Grzebałkowska’s best-selling biography ”The Beksińskis. A Double Portrait” (2014).
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRYI:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 80'
- YEAR:
- 2017
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Borchardt
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Borchardt
- EDITOR:
- Dominik Jagodziński
- MUSIC:
- Marcin Dymiter
- SOUND:
- Radosław Ochnio
- PRODUCER:
- Darek Dikti Biuro Pomysłów
Marcin Borchardt »
Marcin Borchardt - screen writer, director and film expert. He is a director of documentary films, commercials, video clips and television programmes. He teaches short fiction film aesthetics at the Film School in Gdynia, avant-garde and experimental cinema as well as contemporary documentary filmmaking at the University of Gdańsk. He is an author of the monograph “The Avant-Garde Music at the End of the 20th Century. The Beginners’ Guide” (2014).2017 - THE BEKSIŃSKIS. A Sound and Picture Album2016 - Resonances II2014 - Stories Over the Borders2014 - Resonances I2013 - Open Gallery. Metal Sculptures2010 - Jerzy Skolimowski is Watching "Identification Marks: None" 2009 - Janusz Morgenstern is Watching "Goodbye, Till Tomorrow…"2008 - Andrzej Wajda is Watching "Ashes and Diamonds”2008 - Chronicle 32
AT FESTIVALS:
- Slamdance Film Festival 2019, USA, 2019 (competition)
- Escales Documentaiers, France, 2018 (screening)
- 2nd Docu-Mental Film Festival, Russia, 2018 (competition)
- 16th Gdansk DocFilm Festival, Poland, 2018 (competition)
- 25th Hot Docs, Canada, 2018 (competition)
- Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2018 (screening)
- Trieste FF 2018, Italy, 2018 (competition)
- The FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2017 (competition)
- 57. Krakow Film Festival, Poland, 2017 (Special Mention)