Documentary Shorts Kieslowski

Programme

• Bricklayer (Krzysztof Kieslowski, PL 1973, 18')

  A bricklayer remembers how, as an activist during the Stalinist era in the mid-’50s, he was encouraged by the Party to become a model worker (Stakhanovite) and to switch to an office job.

• From a Night Porter's Point of View (Krzysztof Kieslowski, PL 1978, 17')

  Portrait of a factory porter who adheres fanatically to strict discipline; a man with fascistic views balancing on the edge. His extremism even permeates his personal life: he tries to control everyone and everything in the conviction that rules are more important than people.

• Hospital (Krzysztof Kieslowski, PL 1977, 20')

  Kieślowski spent 24 hours filming in the accident & emergency department of a Polish hospital, which we see through the eyes of the (smoking) doctors; from the first briefing to the end of the shift. Kieślowski records the everyday, endless hospital work with a bone-dry sense of black humour.

• Seven Women of Different Ages (Krzysztof Kieslowski, PL 1979, 16')

  Subtle portraits of seven dancers spread across the days of the week – from the youngest child making her first ballet steps to the oldest ballerina now working as a ballet teacher.