6-21 November 2013
at Everyman Cinema
Level 1, Trinity Leeds, Albion Street,
Leeds LS1 5AT
Tickets: £8.00 / £6.00
Box Office 0871 906 9060
Sat 16 Nov at 2pm
Mr & Mrs Kabal's Theatre + The Concert Short
dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 1967, 80 min
Originally conceived as a television series, Borowczyk's two Kabal films are absurdist animated cut-up fantasies featuring a domestic couple who are both constantly at war and very much in love. First seen in the 1962 short, The Concert of Mr and Mrs Kabal, Borowczyk followed up with the expanded feature version Mr and Mrs Kabal's Theatre, a grotesque yet strangely touching black comedy, eschewing straightforward narrative and dialogue in favour of sparse, coarse graphics spliced with gloriously kitsch live action colour inserts of Mr Kabal's fantasies of extramarital affairs.
Sat 16 Nov at 4pm
Blanche
dir. Walerian Borowczyk, France, 1972, 92 min
Blanche is one of the underrated masterpieces of world cinema and probably Polish master Walerian Borowczyk's greatest film. A spare and understated filmic style, immaculate design and cinematography elevate a medieval melodrama to an eerie and resonant cinematic experience highly influential on later generations of directors from Terry Gilliam to Neil Jordan. Borowczyk's wife, Ligia, gives a heartrending performance as Blanche, the young, beautiful wife to a senile baron, played by the legendary Michel Simon. When an amorous king pays a visit, he and his philandering page fall under her spell.
Sun 17 Nov at 2pm
Animated Shorts
dir. Walerian Borowczyk, 1963-1969, 100 min
Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk is one of the most influential animators of the twentieth century inspiring filmmakers like Jan Svankmajer, David Lynch and Terry Gilliam. Here we present a selection of nine of his greatest short films including Grandma's Encyclopaedia, which animates cut outs from Victorian encyclopedias. Renaissance features a scene of wrecked, handmade objects gradually reconstructing themselves into a still life composition before exploding once more. The Game of the Angels evokes de Chirico and Magritte to describe the concentration universe of death camps and the Gulag.
Sun 17 Nov at 4pm
Obscure Pleasures: Walerian Borowczyk
dir. Daniel Bird, 2013, 75 min
A brand new documentary on the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk. In hospital in 2001, Borowczyk made a list of the objects from all his films which he used to bring order to the chaos, symbolically putting his own life in order. Using the list as a starting point, Obscure Pleasures offers a portrait of Borowczyk that encompasses all facets of his artistic personality, including his post-impressionist paintings, socialist realist drawings, film posters, groundbreaking animations, revolutionary short films not to mention the taboo busting films from the 1970s onwards.
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