Boro, L'Île d'Amour

The Films of Walerian Borowczyk

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Edited by Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda and Michał Oleszczyk

Type: Film Reviews
Subject: Director > Walerian Borowczyk
Keywords: Walerian Borowczyk, director, Poland
Publishing date: 2020
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Collection: Berghahn on Film
1st publishing: 2015
Language: English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 210 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78920-818-4

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Book Presentation:
There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and “escape artist” if there ever was one. This collection serves as an introduction and a guide to Borowczyk’s complex and ambiguous body of work, including panoramic views of the director’s output, focused studies of particular movies, and more personal, impressionistic pieces. Taken together, these contributions comprise a wide-ranging survey that is markedly experimental in character, allowing scholars to gain insight into previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk’s oeuvre.

About the authors:
Kamila Kuc is a multimedia artist, curator and writer. Her films have screened in venues and at film festivals nationally and internationally: Whitechapel Gallery, British Film Institute, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Anthology Film Archives New York, Ann Arbor Film Festival. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on experimental media, including Visions of Avant-Garde Film (Indiana University Press) and the co-founder, with Sam Jury, of Disasters of Peace - a creative initiative that encompasses research, writing, making and curating.Kuba Mikurda is a filmmaker and film scholar. He teaches at the Film School in Łódź where he directed a feature documentary Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018) for HBO Europe.Michał Oleszczyk is a film critic, translator and script consultant based in Warsaw. He teaches film studies at "Artes Liberales" Department at University of Warsaw, as well as script development at Warsaw Film School. He contributes to "Cineaste" and RogerEbert.com

Press Reviews:
"The contributors to this collection use new archival sources to provide a comprehensive map of Boro’s career and to reestablish his place in the history of Polish and European avant-garde and art cinema. All the essays are well informed and clearly written; collectively, they provide valuable insights into Boro's often puzzling, sometimes scandalous motivations and productions." • Choice

"Boro, L'Île d'Amour will prove an essential companion for both those readers who wish to dive deeper into specific topics, and those looking to cherry-pick individual films …one of the qualities that Borowczyk valued most in film was its ability to capture perpetual motion. [This volume] does just that: it honors the artist in flux, finding fresh points of connection, without trying to pin him down." • Cineaste

"…a thought-provoking collection of different essays commenting on the life and films of a renowned Polish film director, Walerian Borowczyk… One of the strengths of this book is that the authors of the essays link Borowczyk’s artistic output with the social and artistic environment of Poland in which he grew up, and of France, where he spent most of his adult life." • Slavic Review

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