Kieslowski Shorts

Five short films by Kieślowski: the first two are fiction films he made at the famous film academy in Łódź, the next three are short documentaries. To open, pianist Guy van Nueten will play a piece by Preisner and a piece inspired by Kieślowski. Afterwards, Eye programmer of the future Korée Wilrycx will talk to Kieślowski expert Benjamin Gijzel, Kieślowski’s regular translator and interpreter.

Guy Van Nueten

Composer and pianist Guy Van Nueten enjoys a solid reputation in Belgium. He is active as a session musician, solo pianist and composer for theatre plays, dance performances and films. As of 2018, Guy composed music for 22 stage productions, 8 feature films, released 8 albums and is credited over 100 times on different albums as a keyboardplayer, arranger, composer or producer. His style has an urge towards purity and is influenced by baroque, pop music and electronic music. Guy is releasing an anthology of 20 years of composition assignments later this year.

Benjamin Gijzel

Benjamin Gijzel left for Warsaw in 1973 to get to know life behind the iron curtain and to graduate on spatial planning in 30 years of the Polish People's Republic. He experienced how party leader Gierek threw open the borders to the West and saw that a lot was possible in film and theatre. Important films - they were labeled as ''the cinema of moral concern/disquiet'' - came to the Netherlands.

In 1980 he studied directing at the theater academy in Warsaw and witnessed the rise of Lech Walesa and the beginnings of Solidarnosc. Back in the Netherlands, he became the interpreter for the Polish filmmakers who came to the festival in Rotterdam and subtitled their films. He continued to work with Kieslowski after that, most recently with the master class for international filmmakers (1994), which Kieslowski gave in Amsterdam shortly before his death in 1996.