PrintClose Up presents: Maciej Drygas in Conversation
28 September 2010, 8pm
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club,
44-46 Pollard Row,
London E2 6NB
Tickets: £9 (£5 for Close-up members)
For bookings go to www.closeupfilmcentre.com or www.workersplaytime.net
The screening of two Maciej Drygas’ films followed by a Q&A with the director.
„Hear My Cry” dir Maciej Drygas
Poland, 19991, 46 min
The acclaimed and startling film debut Hear My Cry is a tribute to the history teacher Ryszard Siwiec, who committed suicide by self-immolation in the middle of the 1968 harvest festival in Warsaw. His act was a protest against the everyday lies, despotism and crimes committed in the name of the system.
„State of Weightlessness” dir. Maciej Drygas
Poland, 1994, 60 min
In the same year that we saw the first Russian-U.S. space mission go into orbit, symbolically marking the end of the Cold War's final frontier, filmmaker Drygas takes us behind the scenes of the Soviet/Russian space program. Combining interviews with Russian cosmonauts with never before seen archival footage of the early Soviet space program, The State of Weightlessness explores our place in the universe.