Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

SEANS W KINIE TATRY

A SCREENING AT THE TATRY CINEMA

Igor Chojna
Poland, 2010, 26 Min
Katarzyna Wilk

What do you mean, “screening at the Tatry cinema”? Screenings only take place when at least two visitors are present, and if these come, they will get a good tongue-lashing first, there’s always time for that. What else can you do as the operator of the perhaps last suburban cinema to keep your spirits up, when the house is about to collapse, the neon sign just about clings to the lopsided roof, the rusty cans of long-forgotten films pile up behind the curtain, when you tell callers the whole film on the phone just to see them stay away after all and when you can only keep afloat by taking jobs as a cleaner?

This loving and laconic portrait of a lonely eccentric with a passion no one wants to share spares us the oft repeated “love letters to the cinema”. In the world of the Tatry, shiny eyes have long disappeared, but you grumpily get through somehow, and that’s not to be sneezed at.

Filmformat
DigiBeta | doc | Farbe/ colour
Drehbuch
Igor Chojna
Kamera
Jakub Czerwiński
Ton
Lucyna Wielopolska
Schnitt
Barbara Snarska
Musik
Raphael Rogiński
Produzent
Weronika Czolnowska
Produktion
PWSFTviT
Kontakt
Katarzyna Wilk
Kraków Film Foundation
ul. Basztowa 15/8a
31-143 Kraków
Poland
Tel: +48.12.294 69 45
katarzyna@kff.com.pl
Igor Chojna

Igor Chojna - born 1978 in Warszawa, Poland. He holds a degree in history and political sciences from the University Toronto and afterwards graduated in film directing from the film school „PWSFTviT“ in Łódż.

Movies
TYLU NAS BYŁO (2006, short, doc)
I TAK MA BYĆ (2006)
JULIA (2007)
OD ŚWITU DO NOCY (2007, doc)
PRZEZ SZYBĘ (2009, short)