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Dancing in the Dark 2022
Filmstill Attention! … Painting
Attention! … Painting
Mieczysław Waśkowski
Originally intended as a documentation of Tadeusz Kantor’s “informal painting”, the film develops a life of its own: The abstract form-finding itself becomes the movie star.
Filmstill Attention! … Painting

Attention! … Painting

Uwaga! … malarstwo
Mieczysław Waśkowski
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Animated Film
Poland
1957
9 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Intended as a documentation of Polish artist and theatre-maker Tadeusz Kantor’s “informal painting”, Mieczysław Waśkowski’s film develops a hectic experimental life of its own. The gestural application of paint is staged on changing spatial levels by means of glass plates, camera movements and lighting, making not the painter but the abstract form-finding the movie star.

Robert Seidel

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Director
Mieczysław Waśkowski
Cinematographer
Antoni Nurzyński
Producer
The Polish National Film School in Łódź
Sound
Józef Bartczak
Score
Adam Kaczyński