JAN ACCORDING TO HIMILSBACH

POLISH TITLE: JAN WEDŁUG HIMILSBACHA

A film on Jan Himilsbach who was ‘a stonemason by profession, a writer by talent and an actor by chance.’ The documentary was made on the basis of a forgotten radio feature, ‘Jan Lackland’, recorded in the 1980s by Irena Linkiewicz from the Polish Radio. The protagonist’s story is illustrated using a montage of film fragments, some from the archives of TVP Warsaw, and fictionalized scenes shot at SPATiF, the headquarters of the Association of Polish Artists of Theatre & Film.

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
POLAND
RUNNING TIME:
22'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Andrzej Wąsik
SCRIPT:
Miłka Skalska
DOP:
Krzysztof Andrzejewski
MUSIC:
Marianna Zając
PRODUCTION:
TVP Warszawa

Andrzej Wąsik »

Born in 1959 in Bydgoszcz. The works of this painter with a diploma of the Faculty of Fine Arts
from the University of Toruń have been presented at many exhibitions. He is a founder of Yach Film,
an artistic group active in film, happening, performance and music. In the 1990s he was a graphic
designer and artistic director in ITC. Since 2009 he has been a co‑owner and artistic director of am2, a film studio. He is a member of the Chapter of Video Clip Makers in Poland.