Kazimierz Karabasz
Kazimierz Karabasz (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʑ kaˈrabaʂ]; May 6, 1930 in Bydgoszcz, Poland – August 11, 2018) was a Polish documentary filmmaker. A graduate of the Łódź Film School in 1956, he also taught the documentary programme there for many years. Although his work is now rarely seen, his most famous film, a ten-minute documentary short entitled Muzykanci / The Musicians, is an extra on the Criterion Collection edition of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film The Double Life of Véronique. Kieślowski, whom Karabasz mentored, chose this as one of his personal all-time top ten films in a 1992 poll conducted by the film magazine Sight & Sound. Karabasz is known in Poland for influencing generations of documentary filmmakers to come with his approach to filmmaking called "school of Karabasz" (Polish: szkoła Karabasza). The style focuses of regular people's lives and requires a perspective of an observer with zero impact on the observed object. Muzykanci is considered a textbook example of "Karabasz school". The method was especially popular in the sixties and associated with the œuvre of Władysław Ślesicki, Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki, Krystyna Gryczełowska and Danuta Halladin among others.
Remembrance
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The Musicians
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Krystyna M. Portrait Sketches
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Material Test
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Portrait in a Drop of Water
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The People From an Empty Zone
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Pierwszy krok
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Adopcja
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Marta
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Elżbieta K
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Birds
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Birds
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Remembrance
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For Example, 9 Grzybowska Street
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Summer in Zabno
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Where We Live
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Where We Live
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Material Test
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A Bit Different World
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A Bit Different World
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For Example, 9 Grzybowska Street
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Where the Devil Says Goodnight
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Where the Devil Says Goodnight
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Day In, Day Out
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Pajace
(Thanks)
People on the Road
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People on the Road
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On the Threshold
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A Day Without Sunshine
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From Powisle
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From Powisle
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Punkt widzenia
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Punkt widzenia
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Railway Junction
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A Year in the Life of Franek W.
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Encounters
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A Year in the Life of Franek W.
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Sierpień - zapis kronikalny
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Sierpień - zapis kronikalny
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The Musicians
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At Dawn and Before Dusk
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Two of Us
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Two of Us
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Day In, Day Out
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Summer in Zabno
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