Presented by the Polish Cultural Institute, the Identification Marks: The Films of Jerzy Skolimowski event at New York's Metrograph cinema will showcase more than a dozen films by the veteran Polish director, with the aim of bringing his cinematic contributions into sharper focus.
"Poet, actor, painter, screenwriter, and director, Skolimowski is a creative whirlwind who—even after leaving his native Poland in search of greater artistic freedom—has never stopped working, and with 2022’s EO, produced one of the finest works of an already legendary career," according to the organizers behind the New York retrospective.
"After co-writing the screenplays for Andrzej Wajda’s 1960 Innocent Sorcerers and Knife in the Water, the 1962 debut feature of Roman Polanski, a fellow graduate of the Polish Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski exploded onto the international film scene with his own brilliant breakout works, Identification Marks: None and Walkover, films of youthful brio and rebellion starring the director as alter ego Andrzej Leszczyc," the Polish Cultural Institute said ahead of the event.
It added that Skolimowski's peripatetic career saw him make "masterworks" in Belgium, Britain, and the United States before "a triumphant return" to postcommunist Poland, where, "now in his eighties, he continues to make films distinguished by their spirit of exuberant experimentation."
The New York retrospective aims to mark Skolimowski's 85th birthday and is part of Polish Heritage Days celebrations, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York also said.
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Source: instytutpolski.pl