Permanent Objections

Ogrodowa Street in Lódz - just opposite a crowded shopping center, a state-of-the-art museum and a posh hotel - is where some of the city's poorest live, completely forgotten by the world. A heart-warming and funny portrait of people excluded from the mainstream of social life; people who might be more capable of sacrifice and love than those who pushed them to the sidelines of society.

"The Dancing Hawk" refers to the son of a peasant who senses he can climb to the job in troubled times by playing his cards right. His slavery to work match his ambitions, and gradually he reaches the social position he desires. But the costs have included a dehumanized soul and a loss of a moral conscience. People have had to pay for his advancement, including those nearest to him. The downfall is equally painful: either imprisonment or the easy wasy out are offered as the alternatives.

An impressionistic film about bidding farewell to departing army recruits and the end of freedom.

Three brothers - gymnastics champions doing their practice. While one of them is performing, the others two spot him to prevent a fall. A subtlety, vitality, tone and perspective of sound contribute an additional dimension to the film.

An ironic portrait of a military man made during twenty-four hours on duty.

Experimental psychodrama about a friend of Krolikiewicz's alcohol addiction (though the themes of the film are universal). One of the first attempts to apply the director's theory of "Film space outside the frame".

A record of the three-day burial ceremony of Jan Piwnik "Ponury" (1912-1944), which took place in June 1988 in the Cistercian monastery in Wąchock. The funeral rituals consisted of Christian, Slavic and military customs.

Portrait of Tadeusz Jaworski, one of the first graduates of PWSFTviT, and an unjustly forgotten filmmaker who was expelled from Poland in March '68 for his Jewish origins.

A thorough enquiry into a personality of a great Polish scholar Professor Marian Mazur who in 1970s created new psychological typology based on cybernetics.