<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061</id><updated>2011-10-11T01:15:55.936-07:00</updated><category term='kowalski french cinematheque cinematheque francaise'/><category term='on hitler&apos;s highway'/><title type='text'>EXTINKT</title><subtitle type='html'>{ The films of Lech Kowalski }</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>33</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-2715911865742470844</id><published>2011-10-07T04:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-07T04:54:03.395-07:00</updated><title type='text'>OCTOBER 7,2011  at 10h30 PM as part of The Howl Festival in NYC</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Garamond; "&gt;On  Friday Oct 7 at 10h30 PM as part of &lt;span style="font: 14.0px Garamond"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.howlfestival.com/"&gt; &lt;http://www.howlfestival.com&gt;&lt;/http://www.howlfestival.com&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.howlfestival.com/"&gt;The Howl Festival&lt;/a&gt; in NYC&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Garamond; "&gt;a screening dedicated to Lech Kowalski's friend Mark Kramer&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Garamond; min-height: 21.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PKK14MxA9YU/To7ng5CGwaI/AAAAAAAAAMo/2vitnzSx4NQ/s1600/gringopostcard%2Bpreview.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PKK14MxA9YU/To7ng5CGwaI/AAAAAAAAAMo/2vitnzSx4NQ/s400/gringopostcard%2Bpreview.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660716333902774690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 24px/normal Garamond; "&gt; Gringo: Story of a Junkie.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Garamond; min-height: 21.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Garamond; min-height: 21.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Garamond; min-height: 16.0px"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Garamond"&gt;more info :&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Garamond; color: #3a5998"&gt;http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/199398&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Garamond; min-height: 21.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Garamond"&gt;As opposed to what is written Lech will not attend and it is not a new print but it is worth seeing the film!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Garamond; min-height: 21.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Garamond"&gt;An article about the film:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 11.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 11.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 11px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gringo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Story of a junkie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 16.0px"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 16.0px"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 16.0px"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"&gt;A harrowing, bloody story of heroin addiction that puts films like&lt;i&gt; Trainspotting&lt;/i&gt; to shame, Gringo mixes documentary footage with staged scenes to show the life of addict John Spacely.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"&gt;Perhaps you've seen him somewhere and just can't remember his name.  The face is about an enigmatic as they come: classic Roman features topped by a greasy dyed matt of  slicked back blond hair, pirate-style  patch covering his right eye and  cigarette dangling from an  ever-present smirk. Or maybe you've never  really noticed him and could frankly  care less who he is or was. To you, John Spacely is just another loser, a  human being throwing their life away  by indulging in the most shameless  of self-satisfactions: drug abuse. The minute you learn he's a  card-carrying member of the Riders  of the White Horse, you're thoughts  turn to how selfish and stupid he is,  how addiction is for the weak and  lazy. You now no longer wish to know anything about him, his life, or how he ended up strung out in New York City.  Instead, you sneer down your self-righteous nose and blame him (and his kind) for all the problems of the world. Maybe it would help you to learn a little about who John Spacely is. Perhaps your perceptions will change when you learn what drove him to drugs and what he has to do on a daily basis to survive. One  thing's for sure, the minute you see the horrifying  docudrama Story of a Junkie, you will think twice  about ever attempting to use drugs. This film is as successful a PSA warning about the terrors of dependency that you will probably ever see. It makes the Hollywood glamorization of such struggling souls that much more laughable. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"&gt;GRINGO Story of a Junkie is about as close to pure European neo-realism as an American movie is ever likely to get.  It is also a stunning example of the cinema vérité style of filmmaking, the capturing of events as they happen without concern about continuity or performance. Part documentary, part confessional, this occasionally brilliant but always brave movie is an incredibly searing indictment on the use and abuse of drugs.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"&gt;Whereas Tinsel Town tripe likes to romanticize the ritualistic intake of mind and or mood altering substances as a photogenic character flaw, Story of a Junkie tells it like it really is. Never once white washing or trivializing the life of a heroin addict, director Lech Kowalski and his cast of real life drug users draw us directly into the warped urban war zone where the vast majority of pusher and partakers exist. Never cringing from the sights, the sounds, the smells and the surreality of the real drug culture, the desperation is palpable and the danger, predominant. From how fixes are "cut" to the hierarchy in a shooting gallery, you'll be hard pressed to find another film that tackles this terrible subject with more authenticity. It is drug abuse as slasher film, a frightening, sometime funny and often fatalistic representation of people living a life with a maniacal monkey on their back.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"&gt;It's impossible for us non-addicts to understand the struggles and the will to survive (if only for the next score) of the person hopelessly obsessed with using. But for some reason, we are no longer a society that accepts brutal honesty. Everything needs to be sugarcoated with a small fraction of hope inserted to keep us feeling safe and secure. Frankly, the plain truth is all that Story of a Junkie has to offer. Without its integrity, its desire to get to the very heart of this corrupt cosmos, all we’d have is a carnival sideshow, a scandalous showcase of pure exploitation. But because of the tales it tells and the people who tell them, Story of a Junkie transcends its trappings to become a work of astounding power.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-2715911865742470844?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/2715911865742470844/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=2715911865742470844' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/2715911865742470844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/2715911865742470844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2011/10/october-72011-at-10h30-pm-as-part-of.html' title='OCTOBER 7,2011  at 10h30 PM as part of The Howl Festival in NYC'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PKK14MxA9YU/To7ng5CGwaI/AAAAAAAAAMo/2vitnzSx4NQ/s72-c/gringopostcard%2Bpreview.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-7906229460399087138</id><published>2011-02-25T15:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-25T16:11:10.892-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MARCH 12, 2011 4:15 PM @ Walter Reade Theater in NYC</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; "THE END OF THE WORLD BEGINS WITH ONE LIE "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Lech Kowalski&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;as part of the  FRENCH EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA&lt;br /&gt;"REDEPLOYING CLASSICAL IMAGES "&lt;br /&gt;curated by Nicole Brenez&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drawing on Internet images related to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, director Lech Kowalski deconstructs Robert Flaherty’s classic 1948 documentary Louisiana Story (a film originally commissioned by Standard Oil). “I am quite interested in how the Internet is giving us information using images that anyone can produce and the contrast between ‘corporate’ images and nonprofessional images and story constructions,” says Kowalski.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The End of the World Begins With One Lie&lt;br /&gt;Lech Kowalski, France, 2010; 62m&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as part of &lt;a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2011"&gt;rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mar. 03 - Mar. 13&lt;br /&gt;North America’s leading showcase for the best in contemporary French film returns! Works by several of France’s best-known filmmakers—Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Lelouch, Catherine Breillat, Benoît Jacquot—are included alongside outstanding debuts by Katell Quillévéré, Valérie Donzelli, and Angelo Cianci, and two programs of experimental media works. Finally, we are delighted to welcome back Catherine Deneuve, who will be with us to present the delightful Potiche. All films are New York premieres!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;buy tickets&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ticketing.filmlinc.com/single/selectSeating.aspx?p=22525&amp;amp;sStatus=new"&gt;http://ticketing.filmlinc.com/single/selectSeating.aspx?p=22525&amp;amp;sStatus=new&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;directions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/pages/get-directions"&gt;http://www.filmlinc.com/pages/get-directions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-7906229460399087138?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/7906229460399087138/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=7906229460399087138' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7906229460399087138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7906229460399087138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2011/02/march-12-2011-415-pm-walter-reade.html' title='MARCH 12, 2011 4:15 PM @ Walter Reade Theater in NYC'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-1897989757155326887</id><published>2010-11-01T07:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-01T07:26:08.574-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='on hitler&apos;s highway'/><title type='text'>Mardi 2 novembre 2010 à 19 heures On Hitler's Highway</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A la Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration à Paris, au Palais de la Porte dorée,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mardi 2 novembre 2010 à 19 heures&lt;br /&gt;On Hitler's Highway&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;infos pratiques &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/index.php?lg=fr&amp;amp;nav=567&amp;amp;flash=0"&gt;http://www.histoire-immigration.fr/index.php?lg=fr&amp;amp;nav=567&amp;amp;flash=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More info about the film :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.extinkt.com/kowalski.html"&gt;http://www.extinkt.com/kowalski.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-1897989757155326887?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/1897989757155326887/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=1897989757155326887' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/1897989757155326887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/1897989757155326887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2010/11/mardi-2-novembre-2010-19-heures-on.html' title='Mardi 2 novembre 2010 à 19 heures On Hitler&apos;s Highway'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-8306585224145257739</id><published>2010-09-10T00:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T00:51:04.821-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kowalski french cinematheque cinematheque francaise'/><title type='text'>SEPTEMBER/NOVEMBER 2010 : Lech Kowalski@ Cinémathèque Française/French Cinémathèque, Paris</title><content type='html'>Vendredi 10 septembre 2010 démarre une rétrospective Lech Kowalski  à la cinémathèque Française à Paris....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lech Kowalski, une émeute à lui seul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/TInixEMaKCI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/JFpU8SIPI7s/s1600/IMG_1357.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/TInixEMaKCI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/JFpU8SIPI7s/s400/IMG_1357.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515188551259138082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;©Xavier Lambours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’œuvre de Lech Kowalski, formé à l’Ecole d’Arts Visuels de New York, assistant de Shirley Clarke puis de Nam June Paik, accomplit l’idéal d’un cinéma populaire, c’est-à-dire par et pour le peuple, recueillant les manifestations emblématiques de l’énergie expressive en fusion que libèrent les colères, les désirs et les désespoirs contemporains. Son travail couvre trente ans d’histoire de la contre-culture, plusieurs continents et nombre des figures de la marginalité : musiciens, porn-stars, prostituées, junkies, mercenaires, sans-abris, clandestins, anciens prisonniers, tziganes… On y trouve même un cinéphile (Peter Scarlet en 2003, s’efforçant de ranimer le cinéma en Afghanistan). Commencée à l’écoute fraternelle des exorcismes punk (Johnny Thunders, les Ramones, les Sex Pistols), avec une brève mais splendide incursion dans l’émergence du hip hop (Breakdance Test), l’œuvre s’élargit progressivement aux situations et révoltes collectives pourvu qu’elles restent aussi rugueuses et spontanées que les prestations vocales d’un Joey Ramone à ses débuts. Lech Kowalski incarne en cinéma le mouvement punk : excitation maximale à la rencontre de singularités inassimilables qui obligeront le grand corps social inerte à se déplacer lentement, face à face extralucide avec la misère (sociale, mentale, sexuelle…), refus de la préservation de soi, foudroyante crudité stylistique, le trash comme résurrection critique du naturalisme. L’art non comme produit émouvant mais comme émeute productive. Cela nous vaut quelques films désormais fameux : D.0.A. (1981, sur la tournée des Sex Pistols aux Etats-Unis), On Hitler’s Highway (2002, rencontres de laissés pour compte au long d’une autoroute construite par les nazis et qui mène à Auschwitz), À l’Est du Paradis (2005, portrait de sa mère déportée en Sibérie et autoportrait de l’artiste en déviant américain) et bien d’autres classiques instantanés. Avec quelques complices, en 2008 Lech Kowalski crée l’entreprise Camera War, usage exemplaire des possibilités logistiques et esthétiques actuelles en matière de guérilla visuelle. (http://camerawar.tv/). « Chacun est en recherche d’une expérience mieux partagée, pure et délivrée des intérêts financiers. La montée de l’activité, de la créativité et de la rébellion à laquelle nous avons assisté en 2008 et 2009 partout dans le monde est une part de la guerre en cours. La fabrique de la propagande et de la publicité ne fonctionne plus aussi bien qu’auparavant. Les corporations paniquent. Les peuples le sentent et s’agitent. Voyons où cette énergie sans repos va nous mener. » (Lech Kowalski, 2010). Grand événement le 5 novembre : en compagnie de Mimetic, Lech Kowalski se livre à un mix en direct qui constitue le lancement de son prochain projet filmique, une fresque intitulée « The End of the World Starts With One Lie ». (Nicole Brenez)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cinémathèque française&lt;br /&gt;Cinéma d'avant-garde / Contre-culture générale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus d'infos....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/projections/rendez-vous-reguliers/fiche-cycle/lech-kowalski,296.html"&gt;http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/projections/rendez-vous-reguliers/fiche-cycle/lech-kowalski,296.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Cinémathèque française&lt;br /&gt;51 Rue de Bercy, Paris&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 10 septembre 19h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, D.O.A.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;D.O.A.: A Right of Passage&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/1981/90’/VOSTF/16mm&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Avec Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen, Xray Specs, Generation X, The Rich Kids, The Dead Boys.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;1978, la seule tournée des Sex Pistols aux Etats-Unis, et une interview de Sid &amp;amp; Nancy à Londres.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 10 septembre 21h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Breakdance, Gringo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Breakdance Test&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/1984/6’/VOSTF/16mm&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Emergence de la culture hip hop.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Suivi de&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Gringo Story of a Junkie&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/1985/87’/VOSTF/16mm&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Avec John Spacely&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;« Premier docu-fiction de style néoréaliste sur la vie quotidienne d’un héroïnomane new-yorkais. » (O.A.)&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 24 septembre 19h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Chico &amp;amp; People, Rock Soup&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Chico &amp;amp; the People&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/1991/21’/VOSTF/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Enregistrement live de la bande-son de Rock Soup par Chico Freeman et ses musiciens dans le Thompkins Square Park du Lower East Side.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Suivi de&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Rock Soup&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Avec Kalif Beacon&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/1991/81’/VOSTF/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;« Des sans-abris du Lower East Side luttent contre la ville de NYC  pour conserver leur cantine installée dans Thompkins Square Park où ils fabriquent la “rock soup” à base de nourriture récupérée ou dérobée. » (O.A.)&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 24 septembre 21h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Born To Lose&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Born To Lose (The Last Rock and Roll Movie)&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/2001/104’/VOSTF/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Regard sur John Genzale dit Johnny Thunders, leader des New York Dolls et des Heartbreakers.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 1er octobre 19h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Camera Gun, Boot Factory&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Camera Gun&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/2003/29’/VOSTF/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Portrait d’un Américain converti à l’Islam en prison, parti combattre en Tchétchénie, rentré dans son ghetto de San Diego.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Suivi de&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;The Boot Factory&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/2000/88’/VOSTF/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Vie quotidienne d’une entreprise singulière à Cracovie, fondée par trois punks cherchant leurs propres règles de fonctionnement.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 1er octobre 21h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Highway&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;On Hitler’s Highway&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;France/2002/84’/VOSTF/35mm&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Rencontres sur (et autour de) la première des autoroutes, tracée par les nazis en 1933, construite par des prisonniers, qui mène physiquement et idéologiquement à Auschwitz.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 22 octobre 19h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Full House&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Salle comble à Malalai&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;(Full House In Malalai)&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/2003/90’/VOSTF/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;L’Afghanistan en 2002, juste après la chute des Talibans qui avaient interdit, entre autres, le cinéma.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 22 octobre 21h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Walter, Cutie, Married Man, Cats&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Walter and Cutie&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/1978/25’/VOSTF/16mm&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Avec Walter Gutman et Cutie.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Walter Gutman, spécialiste des marchés financiers, peintre, collectionneur, et l’un des producteurs de Pull My Daisy, rencontre une actrice porno.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Suivi de&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Journal d’un homme marié&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;(Diary of a Married Man)&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/2005/22’/VOSTF/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Pierre blanche lancée avec calme dans les vitrines du traitement de la sexualité.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Suivi de&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;One Two&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;France/2008/31’/VOSTF/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Deux chats à Tbilissi et une fin surprise.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Suivi de&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;The Climate in Cuba&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Bette Wanderman&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/2009/4’/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;« Un après-midi à La Havane [en 1999], Lech Kowalski tournait pour mon film. Le ciel s’assombrit, un torrent tomba du ciel. Après quelques bacardis, Lech s’aventura dehors avec sa caméra. Il revint tout excité d’avoir capté quelque chose de bon. Des années plus tard, en cataloguant ces plans de Cuba, je compris que j’avais 4 composants tirés de ce jour pluvieux qui, une fois montés, pouvaient fournir un court métrage, une métaphore de la situation cubaine. » (Bette Wanderman)&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 5 novembre 19h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Live Event : “The End of the World Starts With One Lie” – First Part&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Mix d’images travaillées en direct, de musique originale par Jérôme Soudan (Mimetic) et d’un texte rédigé par Lech Kowalski.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ce premier pan d’une fresque porte sur la marée noire à la Nouvelle-Orléans et les guerres écologiques du XXIe siècle.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 5 novembre 21h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Dee Dee&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Hey Is Dee Dee Home&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;États-Unis/2003/63’/VOSTF/35mm&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Dee Dee Ramone du groupe The Ramones, qui se révèle le « Lenny Bruce punk » (L.K.), raconte à partir de ses tatouages son trajet agité d’enfant du Queens devenu légende du rock n’roll.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 19 novembre 19h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Paradise&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;A l’Est du Paradis&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;(East of Paradise)&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;France/2005/108’/VOSTF/35mm&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Avec Maria Werla, Lech Kowalski.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Portrait de la mère de l’auteur, rescapée d’un goulag en Sibérie, et autoportrait en fils conséquent.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Ven 19 novembre 21h30&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Lech Kowalski, Force Ouvrière, Winners &amp;amp; Losers&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Police Force Ouvrière&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;France/2009/12’/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;France 2009. Même les gardiens de l’ordre ne supportent plus la répression.&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Suivi de&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;Winners and Losers&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;France/2007/75’/vidéo&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;« Des visages rivés à leur poste de télévision lors de la finale France-Italie de 2006, filmés chez des particuliers, dans des bars, des stades, dans les rues, miroir du métissage de ces deux pays. Il s'agit de visages tendus par l'enjeu du match, qui s'affrontent à distance, chacun incarnant une culture, un camp, exprimant un sentiment profondément nationaliste, au moins pendant la durée du match. » (O. A.)&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;http: fr="" projections="" reguliers="" cycle="" html=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-8306585224145257739?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/8306585224145257739/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=8306585224145257739' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/8306585224145257739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/8306585224145257739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2010/09/septembernovember-2010-lech-kowalski.html' title='SEPTEMBER/NOVEMBER 2010 : Lech Kowalski@ Cinémathèque Française/French Cinémathèque, Paris'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/TInixEMaKCI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/JFpU8SIPI7s/s72-c/IMG_1357.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-8430813272575622855</id><published>2009-11-05T00:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-11T19:42:45.461-08:00</updated><title type='text'>NOVEMBER 2009 : THE DOCUMENTARY MONTH in France</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;"  lang="FR" &gt;Lech Kowalski will have screenings of some of his films in Paris in November. He be will there for introducing them and for Q &amp;amp; A. Those screening are part of the documentary month and organized by ACRIF.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;"  lang="FR" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Lech Kowalski présentera certains de ses films en salle dans le cadre du mois du documentaire, organisé par l'ACRIF (Association des cinémas de recherche d'Ile de France).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Font Definitions */ @font-face  {font-family:Garamond;  panose-1:0 2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8;}  /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:Times;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Dimanche 15 novembre, 16h15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Projection de&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; D.O.A.&lt;/span&gt; de Lech Kowalski, suivie d’une rencontre Filmer le rock, animé par Sylvain Coumoul (critique),&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Cinéma Les Toiles à Saint Gratien&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Place François-Truffaut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;95210 &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saint-Gratien&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Téléphone : 01 34 17 17 18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Le programme Carnets de route à télécharger sur&lt;a href="http://www.ville-saintgratien.fr/heading/heading950672.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ville-saintgratien.fr/heading/heading950672.html"&gt;http://www.ville-saintgratien.fr/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Lundi 16 novembre, 20h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Projection d'&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;East Of Paradise &lt;/span&gt;de Lech Kowalski, suivie d’une rencontre avec le cinéaste.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Cinéma Jean Gabin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;12-14, boulevard Léon-Feix&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;95100 Argenteuil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Vendredi 20 novembre, 20h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Projection d'&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;East Of Paradise&lt;/span&gt; de Lech Kowalski suivie d’une rencontre avec le cinéaste.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;La ferme du buisson,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; Allée de la ferme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;77436 Noisiel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lafermedubuisson.com/rencontre-cinema-lech-kowalski.html"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;http://www.lafermedubuisson.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Mercredi 25 novembre, 18h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Projection de&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;On Hitler's Highway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;      &lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Font Definitions */ @font-face  {font-family:Garamond;  panose-1:0 2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8;}  /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:Times;} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;  &lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Garamond;font-size:12pt;"  lang="FR" &gt;suivie d’une rencontre avec le cinéaste   animé par Eugénio Renzi (critique).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Beaux-arts de Paris l'école nationale supérieure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Médiathèque&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;14, rue Bonaparte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;75272 &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Paris&lt;/span&gt; cedex 06&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.beauxartsparis.fr/"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;http://www.beauxartsparis.fr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.beauxartsparis.fr/"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Mercredi 25 novembre, 20h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Projection de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;D.O.A. &lt;/span&gt;de Lech Kowalski &amp;amp; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Rome is burning &lt;/span&gt;(Portrait of Shirley Clarke) de André S. Labarthe, suivie d’un dialogue entre les cinéastes, animée par Cyril Neyrat,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Cinéma Georges Mélies,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Centre commercial croix de chavaux -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;93100 &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Montreuil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Vendredi 27 novembre, 20h15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Projection de &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Born To Lose (the last rock and roll  movie) &lt;/span&gt;de Lech Kowalski, suivie d’un dialogue entre Lech Kowalski et Patrick Eudeline, animé par Cyril Neyrat, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Ciné 104,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;104 avenue Jean Lolive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;93500 Pantin,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cine104.com/pages/evenements.htm#10"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;http://www.cine104.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Samedi 28 novembre, 20h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Projection de&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt; Born To Lose (the last rock and roll  movie)&lt;/span&gt; de Lech Kowalski  suivie d’une rencontre avec le cinéaste, animée par Cyril Neyrat, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Cinéma Jacques-Tati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;29bis av. du général-de-Gaulle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;93290 Tremblay-en-France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Dimanche 29 novembre, 19h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Projection d'&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;East Of Paradise &lt;/span&gt;+ projection d’un travail en cours de Nicolas Klotz, suivie d’un dialogue entre les cinéastes, animé par Cyril Neyrat, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Cinéma Paul Eluard,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;4 avenue de villeneuve saint georges -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Théâtre-Cinéma Paul Eluard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;4 avenue de Villeneuve Saint-Georges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;94600 &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Choisy-le-Roi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Tel : 01 48 90 89 79&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://theatrecinemachoisy.fr/"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;http://theatrecinemachoisy.fr/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Mercredi 2 décembre, 20h30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Projection de &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;On Hitler’s Highway&lt;/span&gt; de Lech Kowalski, suivie d’une rencontre avec le cinéaste&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Cinéma Marcel Pagnol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;17 rue béranger -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;92240 Malakoff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theatre71.com/un-cinema-art-et-essai.html"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;http://www.theatre71.com/un-cinema-art-et-essai.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;Vendredi 4 décembre, 20h30&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; Projection de&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; D.O.A. &lt;/span&gt;de Lech Kowalski, suivi d’une rencontre avec le cinéaste, puis d’un concert du groupe Chepa (inspiration punk hardcore californienne), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Utopia,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;1, place Pierre Mendès France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; 95310&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Saint-Ouen l'Aumône&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cinemas-utopia.org/saintouen/index.php?id=725&amp;amp;mode=film"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;http://www.cinemas-utopia.org/saintouen/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cinemas-utopia.org/saintouen/"&gt;more information :&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cinemas-utopia.org/saintouen/"&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span  lang="FR" style="font-family:Garamond;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moisdudoc.com/"&gt; 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Festival COTE COURT @ Ciné104 in Pantin, France.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;At the festival POCKET FILMS at FORUM DES IMAGES in PARIS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" &gt;FUCK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;On Saturday June 13 at 8h30 PM in Salle 500 at Forum des images&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_WSc7FKXI/AAAAAAAAAL0/-yq5sjKTyQA/s1600-h/DSC04386.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_WSc7FKXI/AAAAAAAAAL0/-yq5sjKTyQA/s400/DSC04386.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345726895202052466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lech Kowalski &lt;/span&gt;with the VJ &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Emmanuelle Dorsaz&lt;/span&gt; and Composer &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mimetic &lt;/span&gt;will present the French premiere of FUCK a live cinema event that mixes his images from all around the world on every supports with electronic sounds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Avec &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Fuck,&lt;/span&gt; pour le première fois en France, Lech Kowalski invite le musicien Mimetic et la VJ Emmanuelle Dorsaz à s’emparer de son travail pour une performance exceptionnelle. Fusion d’images du monde entier sur tous supports, et sons électro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lech Kowalski with image mixer Emmanuelle Dorsaz and composer Mimetic present FUCK, a live cinema event that merges his images filmed around the world with electronic sounds. Fuck opens for Kowalski new dimensions in cinema, still unexplored. Known for having filmed with underground rock musicians, Kowalski maintains a symbiotic relationship with music.  It is therefore natural that the idea of a live event interweaving images, sound and live performance grew. As an engaged filmmaker, provocation is a way for him to highlight the inconsistencies of the contemporary world. From the United States to Afghanistan, France to Argentina, Poland to Mexico, it's a chaotic world that emerges. Images filmed in a variety of formats, broadcast cameras to cell phones, clash against each other and the music performed live ranges from dark industrial electro to the post techno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Kowalski's accomplices on this project, the composer Jerome Soudan aka Mimetic builds with the help of image mixer Emmanuelle Dorsaz a narrative of raw emotion, where eclectic sounds and multi-screen images echo a carnal approach to social issues and current economic realities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wondering if there is a relationship between the images he filmed over many years for many different documentaries, Kowalski searched his archive (raw unedited footage he filmed since Sept. 11, 2001), selected scenes, deconstructed them into shots, short loops and sequences, stripped away the context the material was originally intended for, reduced everything to the most essential images, and worked with Dorasz and Mimetic to add a musical component; a live mix of not only the music but also of the visuals, onto three screens. There are many narrative possibilities because images on each of the three screens are individually controlled and the forward momentum to the story has left and right movement too.  While each sequence is a cinematic haiku, they accumulate and present something which is undeniably a film but not in the traditional sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Mimetic performs his composition and Dorsaz mixes sequences, they not only interact with each other, they "intuit" the audience reactions to the performance. This brings visceral tension to the performance thus the audience plays a subtle but important role in the creative process. Every screening is unique, each time Kowalski adds, takes away and/or rearranges scenes, yet the essentials are the same; an experiment, creating the perfect arrangement of picture and sound.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Connu pour avoir filmé avec talent le rock underground, Lech Kowalski entretient avec la musique un rapport fusionnel. C’est donc naturellement que l’idée d’un événement live, une performance entrelaçant images, son et spectacle vivant a germé. Fuck ouvre pour Lech Kowalski de nouvelles dimensions pour le cinéma, encore inexplorées. Cinéaste militant, la provocation est pour lui un moyen de pointer les incohérences du monde contemporain. Des Etats-Unis à l’Afghanistan, de la France à l’Argentine, c’est donc un monde chaotique qui se dessine, entrechoc d’images de qualité broadcast et de caméras de poche, sur une improvisation musicale jouée en direct, entre la techno la plus sombre et l’électro industrielle. Complices de Lech Kowalski sur ce projet, le musicien Jérôme Soudan alias Mimetic construit avec l’aide de la VJ Emmanuelle Dorsaz une narration d’émotions brutes, où éclectisme sonore et dispositif multi-écran se font écho dans une approche charnelle des enjeux sociaux et économiques actuels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more informations on : &lt;a href="http://www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/edition-2009/invites/article/lech-kowalski"&gt;http://www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;****************************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;At Festival COTE COURT at Ciné104 in Pantin, France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_TIdMOxrI/AAAAAAAAALc/qMCNT7JiZTc/s1600-h/Middle-without-CD.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_TIdMOxrI/AAAAAAAAALc/qMCNT7JiZTc/s400/Middle-without-CD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345723424940410546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Friday June 12, 2009 at Cine 104 at 9 P.M. in Pantin &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lech Kowalski  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mimetic &lt;/span&gt;will present an original creation :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_SZ9evjTI/AAAAAAAAALU/UhXWXWxICpc/s1600-h/jeromesoudan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 97px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_SZ9evjTI/AAAAAAAAALU/UhXWXWxICpc/s400/jeromesoudan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345722626154138930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a live concert by Mimetic on Lech Kowalski's recent images of New York,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;Hey Is Dee Dee Home &lt;/span&gt;will screen after...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_TWAo3AzI/AAAAAAAAALk/Bb97d3rvLRI/s1600-h/Middle-with-CD.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_TWAo3AzI/AAAAAAAAALk/Bb97d3rvLRI/s400/Middle-with-CD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345723657794028338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Lech Kowalski’s 2003 documentary feature about the life and times of Ramones bassist and all-star burnout Dee Dee Ramone (1952-2002) is a fascinating character study of a punk rock legend. In 1992, Dee Dee Ramone met with director Lech Kowalski to discuss Johnny Thunders for the film Born to Lose (the last rock and roll movie). The session took on a life of its own as Dee Dee transformed into a punk Lenny Bruce and recounted his most poignant memories of copping drugs, forming bands, losing friends and lovers and getting tattoos. Relive the battlefield history of rock n’roll though the memories of this ordinary yet extraordinary guy from Queens whose songs distilled frustration, humor and pleasure into the energetic melodies that made the Ramones a worldwide influence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;C'est en 1974 à New York que se forme l'un des groupes mythiques de la scène punk-rock, les Ramones. Avec leurs jeans déchirés, leurs blousons en cuir noir et leurs riffs insistants, ils furent les pionniers du mouvement, et lui gagnèrent ses lettres de noblesse. En 1989, Dee Dee Ramone, bassiste du groupe et l'un de ses membres fondateurs, quitte les Ramones et se lance dans une carrière solo, avant de les retrouver brièvement à la fin des années 90. Dans Hey Is Dee Dee Home, Lech Kowalski réalise une interview de celui qui composa les plus grands morceaux des Ramones. Filmé en plans fixes, assis seul au milieu des ténèbres, la vulnérabilité de cette figure légendaire du rock est encore accentuée par un éclairage qui creuse les traits de son visage. Dee Dee nous livre les démons d'une vie faite d'extrêmes, et dresse le portrait de l'univers de la punk, très sex, drug and rock'n'roll. A travers le catalogue de ses nombreux tatouages, chacun relié à un événement marquant, il revient sur sa carrière, ses amis musiciens, son naufrage dans la drogue et ses tentatives pour en sortir. A la fin de l'interview, les applaudissements de l'équipe de tournage sortent Dee Dee de sa solitude et le ramènent parmi les vivants. Ce répit ne sera pourtant que de courte durée, puisqu'il sera retrouvé mort quelques semaines plus tard, victime d'une overdose d'héroïne. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;On Tuesday June 16, 2009 at 8 PM  will be screened  a  french subtitled version of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" &gt;Walter and Cutie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_T8WSE2TI/AAAAAAAAALs/rV695bSboOM/s1600-h/walter13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_T8WSE2TI/AAAAAAAAALs/rV695bSboOM/s400/walter13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345724316439075122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lech Kowalski takes an intimate behind-closed-doors approach: the first shot, Cutie's face, Walter's face, the first kiss. Walter, an elderly potbellied man, welcomes this young nineteen-year-old woman for a night of paid love. He is an important figure of the New York art world, a painter and patron of the arts, who financed Pull My Daisy by Robert Frank. Their games of seduction are charming, the ritual of the purification of Cutie's body is gracious. Their dance prolongs into a striptease, then an adolescent embrace on the carpet. And when the young nymph comes out of the bath, Walter venerates her on bended knee. The gestures of the lovers are filled with a cajoling insouciance and their conversation is in full swing. She evokes the pornographic films that employ her and the friendly sex she sometimes shares with women. Then suddenly, Lech Kowalski joins in the conversation, asks questions about the reasons for the popularity of pornographic films. We never see the filmmaker on-screen, apart from his hand giving Cutie a cigarette and lighting it in a gentlemanly fashion. It is he who organized this meeting and paid 150 dollars for the young woman to be present.&lt;br /&gt;Walter and Cutie ends with the Edenic tableau of the couple lying on a bed upon which fruit, no longer forbidden, are laid out. Walter has snuggled his head up against Cutie's breast in childlike abandon. Their pleasurable chance encounter is shared devoid of any sense of guilt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"&gt;C'est à un huis clos intimiste que Lech Kowalski nous convie sur Ie mode stylistique du cinéma direct. Premier plan: Ie visage de Cutie, celui de Walter, un premier baiser. Walter, vieux monsieur ventripotent, accueille cette jeune femme de dix-neuf ans pour une nuit d'amour tarifée. Il est une personnalité new yorkaise, spécialiste du marché de I'art, peintre et mécène, qui finança Pull My Daisy de Robert Frank. Leurs jeux de séduction sont charmants, Ie rituel de purification du corps de Cutie gracieux. Leur danse se prolonge en un strip-tease, puis en une étreinte adolescente sur Ie tapis. Et quand la jeune nymphe sort du bain, c'est genou à terre que Walter la vénère. Les gestes des amants sont empreints d'une insouciance enjôleuse et leur conversation va bon train. Elle évoque les films pornographiques qui I'emploient ou la sexualité amicale qu'elle partage parfois avec des femmes. Puis soudain, Lech Kowalski se mêle à la conversation, pose des questions sur les raisons du succès populaire des films pornographiques. On ne verra jamais Ie réalisateur à I'image, sinon sa main qui offre une cigarette à Cutie et qui la lui allume en homme de bonne éducation. Car c'est bien lui qui a organisé cette rencontre et qui paya 150 dollars la présence de la jeune femme. Walter and Cutie s'achève sur Ie tableau édénique du couple allongé sur un lit où sont posés des fruits qui ne sont plus défendus. Walter a blotti sa tête sur Ie sein de Cutie dans un abandon enfantin. Leur rencontre de fortune et de plaisir est partagée hors de tout sentiment de culpabilité.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information at&lt;a href="http://www.cotecourt.org/"&gt; http://www.cotecourt.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-7534445833997707389?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/7534445833997707389/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=7534445833997707389' title='106 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7534445833997707389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7534445833997707389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2009/06/juin-2009-festival-pocket-films-forum.html' title='JUIN 2009 : festival POCKET FILMS @ FORUM DES IMAGES in PARIS &amp; Festival COTE COURT @ Ciné104 in Pantin, France.'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Si_WSc7FKXI/AAAAAAAAAL0/-yq5sjKTyQA/s72-c/DSC04386.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>106</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-7614046094177123019</id><published>2009-03-29T03:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-21T15:12:57.594-07:00</updated><title type='text'>APRIL 2009 : RETROSPECTIVE  In Montréal // CAMERAWAR and ON HITLER'S HIGHWAY in Nyon //GRINGO In PARIS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RETROSPECTIVE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Lech Kowalski, dépasser les bornes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Du 15 avril au 15 mai 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Se40nMiUVtI/AAAAAAAAAKk/jvihO8gNoHw/s1600-h/CQ2_n_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 291px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Se40nMiUVtI/AAAAAAAAAKk/jvihO8gNoHw/s400/CQ2_n_b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327253257210582738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;img src="file:///Users/lechkowalski/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actif depuis la fin des années 1970, Lech Kowalski tisse une œuvre documentaire forte et indépendante, encore trop peu vue. La Cinémathèque propose une sélection de huit de ses films. Qu’ils explorent la marginalité et la marginalisation à New York (Gringo, Story of a Junkie, Rock Soup, Chico and the People), la scène punk (D. O. A.: A Right of Passage, Born to Lose, the Last Rock and Roll Movie, Hey is Dee Dee Home) ou, à la frontière de l’histoire et de l’autobiographie, la Pologne contemporaine (The Boot Factory, On Hitler’s Highway, East of Paradise), ils témoignent de l’amour du cinéaste pour les destins hors normes, et un cinéma libre de toute contrainte morale ou esthétique.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255); font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Mis à part Gringo peut-être, votre cinéma est documentaire. La mise en scène et la composition de l’image y sont très importantes. Pourquoi ce choix du documentaire et que signifient pour vous les oppositions fiction  /  documentaire, mise en scène  /  spontanéité ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chaque film retrace mon propre processus de découverte. La découverte de quelque chose dont je ne sais rien, au lieu de découvrir quelque chose que les gens pensent que je vais montrer. Que ce soient des émotions, des gens ou des situations, la position de la caméra est plus importante que n’importe quel autre élément dans un film. Bien sûr, la juxtaposition de scènes constitue l’histoire d’un film mais l’endroit où je place ma caméra reste la question la plus importante pour moi. Cela indique ma relation avec le sujet et avec moi-même. C’est ce qui m’angoisse le plus quand je filme. Ai-je pris la bonne décision ? Le hors-champ, c’est-à-dire montrer aussi peu que possible de ce qui se passe, est d’une grande importance pour moi. Je m’intéresse uniquement à l’interprétation de ce que je vois, et pas à la documentation de son intégralité. C’est pourquoi il m’est si difficile de travailler avec un opérateur caméra. Il ne s’agit pas de mauvaise ou bonne photographie mais de ma relation à l’instant qui est filmé. C’est cette relation à l’instant que j’étudie plus tard avec attention. Au moment du montage, lorsque j’organise les images en une histoire dotée d’une progression narrative, je décris également ma relation à ce que j’ai filmé. L’objectivité ne m’intéresse absolument pas. Je m’intéresse à l’excitation du moment. Comment un instant peut-il me parler de la vie au lieu de me fournir les éléments d’une intrigue ? L’intrigue est secondaire. Elle est essentielle pour que le public entre dans l’histoire, mais il existe toutes sortes d’intrigues. L’intrigue de ce qui va se passer ensuite ne m’intéresse pas. Où va-t-on ? Quelle est la connexion avec l’honnêteté par opposition à l’intrigue générale ? C’est pour cela que je construis mes histoires autour d’instants qui conduisent à l’instant suivant. Et, au final, je veux être émotionnellement satisfait du voyage mais pas uniquement à cause de la quantité d’informations véhiculées.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Plusieurs de vos films ont une dimension provocatrice, soit par leur sujet (drogue, marginalité, sexualité), soit par la façon dont ils ébranlent notre perception de ces réalités. Ils sont parfois perçus comme choquants, le plus souvent comme libres de tout jugement moral. Quelle est votre vision de l’éthique documentaire ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le politiquement correct ne m’intéresse pas. Sa valeur historique est très limitée. Les personnages marginaux sont plus proches de la réalité. Ils sont plus proches de leur perte. Les gens qui sont aux commandes de leur vie paient le prix fort. Le prix de perdre leur plus grande raison de vivre. Pour vivre, il faut risquer la mort. La mort a plusieurs aspects. La plupart des gens sont des morts-vivants. Ils vivent confinés dans leurs petites histoires. Tous les marginaux ne sont pas des héros mais, me frotter à eux me procure un vif plaisir. Ils me font réaliser que la vie vaut la peine d’être vécue… si on la vit. C’est de ce défi dont je veux parler dans mes films.&lt;br /&gt;L’évaluation de la qualité d’un film est la manière dont il est perçu dans le futur. Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais j’ai toujours eu ça en tête en faisant des films. Dès mes premiers films. Les situations changent mais notre temps reste notre temps et, c’est autour de ce concept que je me bats. Pourquoi les choses sont telles qu’elles sont à mon époque ? C’est une question extrêmement complexe à laquelle je ne peux répondre. Ça me semble au-delà de mes capacités intellectuelles mais, peut-être que mes films, eux, y répondent. En tout cas, c’est mon pari.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;De D.O.A. à Born to Lose, en passant par Hey is Dee Dee Home, la musique joue un rôle important dans vos films. Que signifient pour vous la musique et l’esthétique punk ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je ne filme que des histoires musicales avec lesquelles je suis connecté d’une manière esthétique. Le mouvement punk est une manière de penser. S’il n’avait jamais été inventé, je travaillerais quand même d’une manière punk. Ce n’est pas une approche philosophique, c’est une manière de survivre et par survivre, je veux dire de faire en sorte que les choses marchent pour toi plutôt que de t’intégrer. Tu crées un espace. Plus je travaille et plus cet espace s’élargit. Je me souviens lorsqu’il n’y avait pas d’espace du tout. Et maintenant, après toutes ces années, l’espace contient une œuvre mais, je pense que je n’y suis pas toujours. L’espace, ce n’est pas moi, c’est autre chose. Le travail lui-même constitue l’espace et je suis le visiteur intime de cet espace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Votre plus récent projet, Camera War, est un blogue cinématographique (www.camerawar.tv).  Vous y écrivez que  la  réalisation cinématographique traditionnelle ne peut plus exprimer la complexité de notre monde. Pensez-vous qu’Internet soit la solution ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Camera War est ma façon de me connecter à un monde qui se situe bien au-delà de la compréhension. C’est mon seul défi […] Nous vivons dans une réalité post-documentaire, ce qui signifie que nous ne vivons plus dans un monde où il y a une possibilité d’explication. Nous sommes suspendus dans la réalité […] Camera War, c’est mon action. Cette action me fait découvrir des histoires que je veux raconter et auxquelles je n’aurais pas pensé si je n’avais été porté vers l’avant par Camera War. Camera War est ma communauté. C’est peut être la seule réalité post-documentaire dont je peux parler. Communauté. Il n’y a pas de communauté dans le sens traditionnel. J’ai donc créé un endroit où une communauté peut se retrouver […] Il s’agit d’imagination et de créativité […] Donner plutôt que détruire, ouvrir plutôt que fermer, donner de l’énergie, montrer des choses qui ne sont pas si évidentes et faire tout ça parce que les grosses boîtes à fric ignorent toutes ces choses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;Entrevue réalisée via Internet par Karine Boulanger, assistante à la programmation, et traduite de l’anglais. Le texte complet en anglais et en français est disponible sur le site de la Cinémathèque. Ce cycle est présenté en collaboration avec la Corporation Québec-Pologne pour les arts et le Consulat général de Pologne à Montréal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;More information &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/affiche/kowalski.html"&gt; http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/affiche/kowalski.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*******************************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="cinetimeline-300-fd40dda2c238" style="overflow: visible;"&gt;&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;h2 class="tx-cinetimeline-pi1-title"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt; Visions du Réél&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="tx-cinetimeline-pi1-title"&gt; Nyon, Switzerland&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="tx-cinetimeline-pi1-title"&gt;Lech Kowalski will present&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="tx-cinetimeline-pi1-title"&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Saturday, April 25 in Salle de la Colombière &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;at 4.00 p.m. :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Camerawar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Se4_y9Kmf2I/AAAAAAAAAK0/CFRyWFmoUGw/s1600-h/jump2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Se4_y9Kmf2I/AAAAAAAAAK0/CFRyWFmoUGw/s400/jump2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327265553870913378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the underground filmmaker Lech Kowalski goes onto the Internet: an eminently political interactive project that renews the documentary film genre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quand le cinéaste underground Lech Kowalski investit le Net: un projet interactif et éminemment politique qui renouvelle le cinéma documentaire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;&gt;-----&lt;&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Saturday, April 25 in Salle de la Colombière at 7.00 p.m.:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;On Hitler's Higway &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Se5ALGk22ZI/AAAAAAAAAK8/Q4ewb3V3HUw/s1600-h/LKowalski-On-Hitler%27s-Highw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Se5ALGk22ZI/AAAAAAAAAK8/Q4ewb3V3HUw/s400/LKowalski-On-Hitler%27s-Highw.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327265968713816466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voyager les yeux ouverts est un talent! Le long de cette autoroute, au hasard de rencontres, une forte géographie de vérités et d’illusions se déploie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To travel with open eyes is a talent! Along this motorway, according to chance meetings, a strong geography of truths and illusions is deployed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;&gt;-----&lt;&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Saturday, April 25,  in Usine à Gaz &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;at 11.30 p.m.: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An exceptional&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;CAMERA WAR Live Cinema Show&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;with composer Mimetic, VJ Boris Edelstein (modul8) and Lech Kowalski.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Se5BAI_gIEI/AAAAAAAAALM/8Rj2wBUfkkk/s1600-h/Boris+Edelstein+%28left%29+and+Mimetic+%28right%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Se5BAI_gIEI/AAAAAAAAALM/8Rj2wBUfkkk/s400/Boris+Edelstein+%28left%29+and+Mimetic+%28right%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327266879895511106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----&lt;&gt;-----&lt;&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Monday, April 27,  Salle Uni,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; from 2.00 p.m. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DocWeb seminar – The documentary’s new web media &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The DocWeb seminar will be an opportunity to discuss the following issues:&lt;br /&gt;What are the specific characteristics and the different modes of documentary creation on the Internet? What challenges does it raise for writing documentaries? In what way is it renewing the traditional production models? Can it open up alternative dissemination channels?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Lech Kowalski, director and Thierry Lounas producer of Camera War, Alexandre Brachet, in charge of the site upian.com and web producer of Gaza/Sderot, Joël Ronez, director of arte-tv, Arnaud Dressen, producer and Samuel Bollendorff, director of the web documentary Voyage au bout du charbon, Bruno Nahon, producer of Twenty Show Le film&lt;p class="tx-cinetimeline-pi1-text-en"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="tx-cinetimeline-pi1-text-en"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visionsdureel.ch/en/film-market/evenements/docweb.html"&gt;http://www.visionsdureel.ch/en/film-market/evenements/docweb.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*******************************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday April 4th at 20h at &lt;a href="http://www.le104.fr/"&gt;le 104&lt;/a&gt; in Salle 200, will be screened  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Gringo - The Story of a Junkie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;in English with french subtitles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Sc9RZ9zfaQI/AAAAAAAAAKc/OtQLqeW4MyU/s1600-h/gringo+poster+preview.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 397px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Sc9RZ9zfaQI/AAAAAAAAAKc/OtQLqeW4MyU/s400/gringo+poster+preview.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318559191476955394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///Users/lechkowalski/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;A harrowing, bloody story of heroin addiction that puts films like Trainspotting to shame, Gringo mixes documentary footage with staged scenes to show the life of addict John Spacely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps you've seen him somewhere and just can't remember his name.  The face is about an enigmatic as they come: classic Roman features topped by a greasy dyed matt of  slicked back blond hair, pirate-style  patch covering his right eye and  cigarette dangling from an  ever-present smirk. Or maybe you've never  really noticed him and could frankly  care less who he is or was. To you, John Spacely is just another loser, a  human being throwing their life away  by indulging in the most shameless  of self-satisfactions: drug abuse. The minute you learn he's a  card-carrying member of the Riders  of the White Horse, you're thoughts  turn to how selfish and stupid he is,  how addiction is for the weak and  lazy. You now no longer wish to know anything about him, his life, or how he ended up strung out in New York City.  Instead, you sneer down your self-righteous nose and blame him (and his kind) for all the problems of the world. Maybe it would help you to learn a little about who John Spacely is. Perhaps your perceptions will change when you learn what drove him to drugs and what he has to do on a daily basis to survive. One  thing's for sure, the minute you see the horrifying  docudrama Story of a Junkie, you will think twice  about ever attempting to use drugs. This film is as successful a PSA warning about the terrors of dependency that you will probably ever see. It makes the Hollywood glamorization of such struggling souls that much more laughable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Sc9N3JsMF_I/AAAAAAAAAKM/M5I7oDSrlx0/s1600-h/image001.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Sc9N3JsMF_I/AAAAAAAAAKM/M5I7oDSrlx0/s400/image001.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318555294837250034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;GRINGO Story of a Junkie&lt;/span&gt; is about as close to pure European neo-realism as an American movie is ever likely to get.  It is also a stunning example of the cinema vérité style of filmmaking, the capturing of events as they happen without concern about continuity or performance. Part documentary, part confessional, this occasionally brilliant but always brave movie is an incredibly searing indictment on the use and abuse of drugs.&lt;br /&gt;Whereas Tinsel Town tripe likes to romanticize the ritualistic intake of mind and or mood altering substances as a photogenic character flaw, Story of a Junkie tells it like it really is. Never once white washing or trivializing the life of a heroin addict, director Lech Kowalski and his cast of real life drug users draw us directly into the warped urban war zone where the vast majority of pusher and partakers exist. Never cringing from the sights, the sounds, the smells and the surreality of the real drug culture, the desperation is palpable and the danger, predominant. From how fixes are "cut" to the hierarchy in a shooting gallery, you'll be hard pressed to find another film that tackles this terrible subject with more authenticity. It is drug abuse as slasher film, a frightening, sometime funny and often fatalistic representation of people living a life with a maniacal monkey on their back.&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Sc9PaAW8AQI/AAAAAAAAAKU/33zhJYUqfU4/s1600-h/gringopressecanada.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Sc9PaAW8AQI/AAAAAAAAAKU/33zhJYUqfU4/s400/gringopressecanada.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318556993139245314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Denis Coté -Montréal 1999&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Autant prévenir tout de suite: Gringo - The Story of a Junkie est une véritable descente aux enfers. Sans concession, ni le moin-dre affleurement de bonne conscience, Lech Kowalski montre l'univers de la drogue dans ce qu'il a de plus cru, de plus insup-portable: l'aiguille lentement enfoncée dans le bras, l'insalubrité, la violence et même les vomissements du petit matin... Rien ne nous est épargné! Doublure de Johnny Thunders -trop compliqué à gérer selon le réalisateur - John Spacely, jeune homme borgne à la chevelure peroxydée, est le guide de ce voyage errant parmi les toxicomanes et les dealers. Toujours à la recherche d'un nouveau shoot, au rythme de musique hip hop, il nous entraîne dans les sombres bas-fonds du Lower East Side à New York. C'est là, dans une pièce située au rez-de-chaussée avec fenêtre sur rue, que les dealers préparent les petits sachets tant attendus, que les toxicomanes se retrouvent, jamais à l'abri d'un nouvel acte de violence. Mélange étonnant de scènes authentiques et de reconstitu-tions, annotées par la voix-off de John, Gringo - The Story of a Junkie regarde la réalité en face: celle d'une société en révolte, en fuite et menacée par le sida. Véritable drame dont la sponta-néité n'est pas sans rappeler le cinéma-vérité, ce film au regard impassible comme anesthésié par le désespoir, est une vérita-ble chronique d'une mort annoncée... survenue finalement dans Born to Lose où John Spacely se meurt devant la caméra, comme s'il ne pouvait échapper à son rôle d'éternelle doublure de Johnny Thunders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ateliers-  Visions du réel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-7614046094177123019?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/7614046094177123019/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=7614046094177123019' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7614046094177123019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7614046094177123019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2009/03/april-2009-gringo-in-104-paris.html' title='APRIL 2009 : RETROSPECTIVE  In Montréal // CAMERAWAR and ON HITLER&apos;S HIGHWAY in Nyon //GRINGO In PARIS'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Se40nMiUVtI/AAAAAAAAAKk/jvihO8gNoHw/s72-c/CQ2_n_b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-6771749103418231974</id><published>2009-01-24T03:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-24T03:59:45.551-08:00</updated><title type='text'>FEBRUARY 2009 : BLACK REVOLUTION</title><content type='html'>On February 5, 2009 at &lt;a href="http://www.lecranstdenis.org/"&gt;CINEMA l'ECRAN &lt;/a&gt;in SAINT DENIS (Parisian "banlieue"!!!), FRANCE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.camerawar.tv/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SXr_y1B85fI/AAAAAAAAAJg/GMZBOeth2EQ/s400/capture+site+fr.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294825560621245938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lech Kowalski will present chapters extracted from his latest project&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.camerawar.tv/"&gt; http://www.camerawar.tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He will be there for Q&amp;amp;A after the screening with film critic Cyril Neyrat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You could also see &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Chico And The People&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;with musician Chico Freeman&lt;br /&gt;1991-20 min&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SXsA7zz6wjI/AAAAAAAAAJo/dKX-bHlr8As/s1600-h/chico1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SXsA7zz6wjI/AAAAAAAAAJo/dKX-bHlr8As/s400/chico1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294826814424400434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Chico and the People &lt;/span&gt; is a video film about the of the recording of the sound track for the film Rock Soup. Lech Kowalski asked Chico Freeman to compose a sound track for his film about the homeless in New York. The objective was to make a sound that did not feel just like a musical score. He asked Chico Freeman and three musicians to record live with a group of homeless people. The music was recorded on a cold January afternoon in Tompkins Square park on the lower east side in New York. This park was a key meeting point for hundreds of homeless people living on the streets of New York City. Several days after the recording session, the park was closed for several months and redesigned for easier access by the police. This film is a record of that recording session and about a part of New York that no longer exists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Breakdance test&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 1984-6 minutes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SXsCPIbb9nI/AAAAAAAAAJw/aNXRpnc7830/s1600-h/break2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SXsCPIbb9nI/AAAAAAAAAJw/aNXRpnc7830/s400/break2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294828245888005746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Breakdance Test is probably one of the first films dedicated to this phenomenon. At the beginning of the 80s in New York, there was disco music, punk rock, jazz, and rap was beginning to become known. I wanted to make a film about musical movements that were on the rise during this period. I would meet with several young people, put two 16mm cameras in a studio, and I would try to grasp the new body movements that these kids were making. I wanted to see if I could make something good out of it, so I considered the film as a test, a 'breakdance. test.' Rap and breakdance were both part of the street culture, but had nothing to do with my culture: it was too young a movement for me and I considered it somewhat annoying. The film is the fruit of my infatuation with pop culture, but if we think about it, is not my culture: I wanted to make a film about something that interested me..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information at :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lecranstdenis.org/film-1424.html"&gt;http://www.lecranstdenis.org/film-1424.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cinéma L’ECRAN&lt;br /&gt;14, passage de l’Aqueduc&lt;br /&gt;93200 SAINT DENIS&lt;br /&gt;tel : 01 49 33 66 88&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-6771749103418231974?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/6771749103418231974/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=6771749103418231974' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/6771749103418231974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/6771749103418231974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2009/01/february-2009-black-revolution.html' title='FEBRUARY 2009 : BLACK REVOLUTION'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SXr_y1B85fI/AAAAAAAAAJg/GMZBOeth2EQ/s72-c/capture+site+fr.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-5948451016659434358</id><published>2008-12-31T02:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T03:52:07.529-08:00</updated><title type='text'>JANUARY 2009 : CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE &amp;  LE 104</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chapters extracted from http://www.camerawar.tv&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;AT LA CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE IN PARIS&lt;br /&gt;ON JANUARY 9, 2008&lt;br /&gt;AT 21H30&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SVtPmKjKy6I/AAAAAAAAAJA/0J3FhMJqcoU/s1600-h/cinematheque.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 345px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SVtPmKjKy6I/AAAAAAAAAJA/0J3FhMJqcoU/s400/cinematheque.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285906104734895010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;more information at : &lt;a href="http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/nosactivites/projections/cycles-cinema/cycle/manifestation/V9609-analyses-economiques-lech-kowalski-camera-war.htm"&gt;http://www.cinematheque.fr/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"CAMERA WAR"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Qu’est-ce que le cinéma à l’ère de la mondialisation ? Comment peut-il rendre compte de la réalité  aujourd’hui ? Quel support en permettra la diffusion la plus importante ? Pourquoi certains films, projetés dans le cadre de festival s "intimistes", ne sont-ils pas accessibles à un plus large public ? Où et comment regarderons-nous les films demain ? L’Internet sera-t-il le support privilégié d’un nouveau type de cinéma ?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Autant de questions que se pose Lech Kowalski et qui l’ont amené à réinventer l’écriture et la diffusion de ses films. Armé de sa caméra, l’artiste sillonne le monde et revisite ses propres images d’archives pour proposer une nouvelle forme de cinéma documentaire via  le site "www.camerawar.tv"&lt;br /&gt;Chaque lundi, depuis le 29 septembre 2008, le réalisateur anglais d’origine polonaise met en ligne des films-chapitres de durées variables. Ceux-ci rendent compte de sa vision du monde d’aujourd’hui, en contrepoint de réalités similaires existant depuis une trentaine d’années.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conceptualisé par la société de webdesign Elephant, le sit est associé à un blog rédigé par le réalisateur. Le public est invité à y laisser un commentaire, à soumettre son propre film ou un morceau de musique de sa composition. Chaque film peut se voir indépendamment des autres, mais l’ensemble est lié, formant indéniablement un récit – lien renforcé par la présence sonore commune des créations de Mimetic.&lt;br /&gt;Pendant sa résidence au CENTQUATRE, l’artiste monte puis met en ligne ses « films-chapitres » et répond aux commentaires et interventions des "inter-spectateurs/acteurs". Il présentera périodiquement au public son travail au sein du CENTQUATRE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;____________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is cinema dead?&lt;br /&gt;What is cinema in the age of globalization?&lt;br /&gt;Why can’t a greater public see the many films that play mainly in film festivals?&lt;br /&gt;Like the music business, is the film business broken?&lt;br /&gt;Where will movies play in the future? Do we need a new cinema?&lt;br /&gt;Is the Internet the venue for a new kind of movie?&lt;br /&gt;Many questions have steered me to create http://www.camerawar.tv&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On September 29th a new kind of documentary is launched on the Internet and for one year, every Monday, new film chapters of varying lengths, will be posted online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every film chapter, in and of itself, is a short documentary but when viewed together, whether chronologically or in arbitrary sequences, tell a story. They can be viewed in any order. These are not viral videos or news reports. This is a new cinema narrative technique and the Internet is the only way to tell this story. This presents a new way to watch a film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a new kind of cinema in a new venue, a cinema free of television and corporate production restraints. It rips away the walls corporations have erected between the audience and artists, an experimental cinema, sorely lacking in the new world order, accessible outside of traditional venues and television.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director Lech Kowalski blogs about each chapter and the audience can interact with comments or submit films and music of their own. Jerome Soudan from Mimetic is the musical composer for the documentary. Web designer Jerome Pidoux, known as Elephant has designed the site. Chapters can be viewed full screen, smaller image or with a black border. Headsets or external speakers connected to the computer will produce optimum sound quality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chapters extracted from http://www.camerawar.tv  will also be presented At le 104  ON JANUARY 17 at 15hoo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information at : &lt;a href="http://www.104.fr/"&gt;104.fr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*******************************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;D.O.A.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AT LE 104 IN PARIS ON JANUARY 17 @ 20h&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SVtaQFXwMXI/AAAAAAAAAJI/cDaCDBjwk7c/s1600-h/doa-sign.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SVtaQFXwMXI/AAAAAAAAAJI/cDaCDBjwk7c/s400/doa-sign.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285917820015620466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Filmed in '78 as it happened, when it happened, like it happened, DOA is the legendary and definitive document of the punk generation seen through the demise of The Sex Pistols whilst on their ill-fated US tour which saw both the break-up of the band and the death of Sid Vicious.&lt;br /&gt;Loaded with explosive performances from the prime movers of movement including The Sex Pistols (doing Anarchy In The U.K, God Save The Queen, No Fun, Pretty Vacant, Holidays In The Sun and heaps more), X Ray Specs (with their incendiary classic Oh Bondage Up Yours), The Rich Kids, Generation X, Sham 69, The Dead Boys and tons more, the film really captures something in that classic establishment versus angry youth way.&lt;br /&gt;DOA is more than just a mirror to the scene, it is as much part of the movement as the music itself...chaotic, claustrophobic, nasty and aimed squarely between your eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Un baptême, un 45 tours posé sur une platine, un cri d'enfant libératoire et une touche power qui enclenche «Night clubbing» d'Iggy Pop, et déjà une mort est annoncée à l'arrivée. Dans DOA, film désormais de référence en la matière et fondé essen-tiellement sur l'unique tournée des Sex Pistols aux États-Unis en 1978, Lech Kowalski pose un regard à la fois fasciné et désabusé sur le mouvement punk. Détracteurs, fans et suiveurs, tous sont conviés pour cet enterrement prématuré. Et les cada-vres sont nombreux. Ceux d'abord bien réels du bassiste des Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious et de son amie Nancy, décédés tous deux d'une overdose. Et d'autres plus symboliques: celui des Sex Pistols, dissous à la suite d'une tournée de plus en plus violente et chaotique; celui du mouvement lui-même, qui à force d'édulcoration et de marchandisation a perdu sa raison d'être. Car même si des groupes tels que Génération X, XRay-Spex ou Sham 69 ont pris une légitime relève, des suiveurs incarnés ici par Terry, un jeune punk anglais, finiront par tuer la révolte musicale. Ce constat amer, qui préfigure les thématiques déve-loppées plus tard par Kowalski (drogues, échec face à l'auto-rité, etc.), ne rejette pourtant en aucun cas le punk dans une vanité morbide, L’excitation, la possibilité d'une alternative sont ici exaltées par des images d'adolescents revenus à la vie et par une esthétique brutale, sans concession, allergique à tout canon de beauté et d'une séduisante impureté. Le signe d'une résurrection ?&lt;br /&gt;Barbara Levandangeur /  Atelier Lech Kowalski -Visions du réel, 2004&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information at : &lt;a href="http://www.104.fr/"&gt;104.fr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-5948451016659434358?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/5948451016659434358/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=5948451016659434358' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/5948451016659434358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/5948451016659434358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2008/12/january-2009-cinematheque-francaise-le.html' title='JANUARY 2009 : CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE &amp;  LE 104'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SVtPmKjKy6I/AAAAAAAAAJA/0J3FhMJqcoU/s72-c/cinematheque.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-5245949505554701373</id><published>2008-12-02T13:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-02T14:07:40.160-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DECEMBER 2008 : THE BOOT FACTORY &amp; EAST OF PARADISE in MARSEILLE, FRANCE</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/STWuNsBDgjI/AAAAAAAAAIw/8aQaZiYS7w4/s1600-h/BootFactoryPoster+light.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/STWuNsBDgjI/AAAAAAAAAIw/8aQaZiYS7w4/s400/BootFactoryPoster+light.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275314088711520818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lech Kowalski will be presenting &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Boot Factory &lt;/span&gt;and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;East of Paradise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on December 12 and 13&lt;br /&gt;in Marseille, France&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/STWvcZ07DKI/AAAAAAAAAI4/Jwi7dqCfC-I/s1600-h/EOP+Lech+and+Mark+Brady+479.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/STWvcZ07DKI/AAAAAAAAAI4/Jwi7dqCfC-I/s400/EOP+Lech+and+Mark+Brady+479.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275315441038462114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Screenings are free and there will be a bar!&lt;br /&gt;@ the Polygone étoilé&lt;br /&gt;1 rue Massabo&lt;br /&gt; 13002 Marseille&lt;br /&gt;(métro et tram Joliette)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's organized by &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.peuple-et-culture.org"&gt;the association Peuple et Culture Marseille&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More information:&lt;br /&gt;Peuple &amp;amp; Culture Marseille&lt;br /&gt;6-8 rue de Provence&lt;br /&gt;13004 Marseille&lt;br /&gt;Tél. 04 91 24 89 71&lt;br /&gt;peupleculture.marseille@wanadoo.fr&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-5245949505554701373?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/5245949505554701373/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=5245949505554701373' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/5245949505554701373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/5245949505554701373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2008/12/december-2008-boot-factory-east-of.html' title='DECEMBER 2008 : THE BOOT FACTORY &amp; EAST OF PARADISE in MARSEILLE, FRANCE'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/STWuNsBDgjI/AAAAAAAAAIw/8aQaZiYS7w4/s72-c/BootFactoryPoster+light.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-7742352867831576647</id><published>2008-11-14T10:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T12:58:13.246-08:00</updated><title type='text'>NOVEMBER 2008  : CAMERA WAR   &amp;   BORN TO LOSE (the last rock and roll movie)</title><content type='html'>BORN TO LOSE will be part of a special program called "pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse" at ENTREVUES FILM FESTIVAL in Belfort France, on Nov 25th&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SSCJMcFMSpI/AAAAAAAAAIo/CcxWwOx5Zog/s1600-h/btl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 355px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SSCJMcFMSpI/AAAAAAAAAIo/CcxWwOx5Zog/s400/btl.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269362410812885650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EntreVues has imposed itself since more than twenty years as the festival of ambitious cinema, combining a first films competition, theme-based retrospectives and tributes. It is also a privileged meeting place for audiences and directors and other professionals of young cinema.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be an After party at "la Poudrière" the same day : November 25th where &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Unfinished&lt;/span&gt; will be screened..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information at &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.festival-entrevues.com/cgi-local/film_fiche_detail.pl?id=771"&gt;http://www.festival-entrevues.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CAMERAWAR.TV will be presented at CINEMA NUMERIQUE II  at Beaubourg, in Paris, France, on November 15,2008 at 16 PM programing organised by les Cahiers du cinéma and le Festival d'Automne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SR3QmG02I_I/AAAAAAAAAIg/taw1egVo0bo/s1600-h/camerawarWebcapture.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SR3QmG02I_I/AAAAAAAAAIg/taw1egVo0bo/s400/camerawarWebcapture.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268596492179219442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more at &lt;a href="http://www.cahiersducinema.com/"&gt;les cahiers du cinema &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and  &lt;a href="http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/ActualiteCategorie?ReadForm&amp;RestrictToCategory=Categorie4&amp;count=999&amp;sessionM=2.4.1&amp;L=1"&gt;Beaubourg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Camera war will be presented at CPH DOX in  Redefining Documentary, Working Multi-Platform&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questioning cinema and the film business and its ability to reach and communicate with audiences, the American undergrounds answer to Werner Herzog, cult figure Lech Kowalski has turned to the internet. Renowned for his controversial award winning documentaries, a journalist once called Kowalski a warrior battling with a camera to redefine the art of documentary. Kowalski has now taken his battle online with www.camerawar.tv. &lt;br /&gt;Launched on September 29th, camerawar.tv is a new kind of documentary where Kowalski will post a new film chapter each Monday for a year. Every chapter is a short documentary in and of itself. When viewed together, whether chronologically or in arbitrary sequences, the chapters tell a story. They can be viewed in any order and express a new cinematic narrative. This is a new kind of cinema in a new venue. A cinema free of television and corporate production restraints, through which Kowalski seeks to rip away the walls between audiences and artists. Blogging about each chapter, the audience can interact with the director with comments or by submitting films and music of their own. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more at :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cphdox.dk/d1/ft.lasso?s=2008122&amp;ser=794&amp;e=1"&gt;cph dox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-7742352867831576647?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/7742352867831576647/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=7742352867831576647' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7742352867831576647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7742352867831576647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2008/11/november-2008.html' title='NOVEMBER 2008  : CAMERA WAR   &amp;   BORN TO LOSE (the last rock and roll movie)'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SSCJMcFMSpI/AAAAAAAAAIo/CcxWwOx5Zog/s72-c/btl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-8636768318553017698</id><published>2008-10-16T06:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-16T06:44:21.316-07:00</updated><title type='text'>OCTOBER 2008 : EAST ON PARADISE ON ARTE TV</title><content type='html'>EAST OF PARADISE will be screened on the French German channel ARTE &lt;br /&gt;on October 19, 2008 at 23:55 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SPdEBPdJlnI/AAAAAAAAAIY/OAILlaZLvXw/s1600-h/EOP+Lech+and+Mark+Brady+479.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SPdEBPdJlnI/AAAAAAAAAIY/OAILlaZLvXw/s400/EOP+Lech+and+Mark+Brady+479.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257745878097696370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Little-known in France, where East of Paradise was discovered at the International Festival of Documentary in Marseille (FID Marseille) 2006, Lech Kowalski is a star of American underground cinema. “All my films, he says, were shot to create  a space for me in the world.  I wasn’t finding my place and cinema helped build my reality, forge a world that corresponded to me.” In fact, few contemporary bodies of work like Kowalski’s give such a strong impression of vital necessity, of body and soul commitment in a world that he is not content to visit and film but into which he throws, searches and finds himself. World of outskirts and the subterranean of the West, for a long time the ones of the Lower East Side in New York where Lech Kowalski, born in London to Polish parents, settles in the early seventies. Going with the Sex Pistols on their cataclysmic Unites States tour (D.O.A, 1981), accompanying the suicidal drifting of a junky (Gringo, 1984), or the survival struggle of the New York homeless (Rock Soup, 1991), Lech Kowalski celebrated the end of a generation, of an era and energy: the one of punk, last battle and swan’s song of rebellion, of a lifestyle that paid with the price of self destruction its desperate desire for freedom in regard to all authorities.&lt;br /&gt;Last part of a trilogy through which Kowalski comes back to his Polish roots, East of Paradise is to this day the central piece of his work, an attempt to make account of a life committed to this world, to this era,  and weigh its meaning and its inheritance.  This meaning, Kowalski builds by articulating two movements whose bringing together had, for some, incited the same stupid indignation than that, dared by Duras and Resnais in their time, of Hiroshima’s destruction and the intimate drama of a young French woman.  First movement: the filmmaker’s mother tells her son for the first time the great sufferings during her deportation by the soviets during the Second World War.  Second movement: Kowalski tells his life as filmmaker in a New York of drugs, porn and punk, over an edit of fragments and never used rushes from his films. The mothers monologue counts, with those of Shoah, A Dirty Story, or the recent Fengming: A Chinese Memoir by Wang Bing, among the most poignant oral accounts in the history of cinema. Kowalski’s standpoint is opposite to the rigorous austerity of the previous films. His cinema is free of rules, systems, or moderations, he has no fear to cut up, to dramatize the account by framing his mothers face tighter and tighter, up to the mime, in the broken down empty apartment chosen as back drop, of such detail of past events: blackness to recall the obscurity in the train of the deportation, back to image when light enters back the freight car. Distance, propriety, all the common meeting grounds of the so-called ethics of documentary are swept by the empathetic commitment of the filmmaker in the here and now of the filming. The account overwhelms his mother who is stunned by the strength of the images her speech uncovered.  Kowalski takes over, starts in the first person the story of his life, his mothers face in tears giving frame to the daily gestures of a junkie preparing his morning shoot accompanied by a casual jazz. If bringing together big history and the little story, the mothers prestigious and universal drama and the son’s drifting in the subterranean of sex, drugs and rock was a shock to some, it’s because Kowalski took care not to justify it straightaway, to let wide open the split of the times and events. Terrific audaciousness, gripping spectator experience: the split fills itself, the archives of the lost generation progressively charge with a painful solemnity, until appear under the faces of New York’s “victims and heroes” those of the Polish deportees. History lesson, act of memory, self-portrait, musical poem, libertarian manifesto, requiem: East of Paradise opens wide the window of documentary.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Cyril Neyrat&lt;br /&gt;Extracted from "Les Cahiers du Cinema"&lt;br /&gt;Translated from French by Keja Kramer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arte.tv/fr/accueil/semaine/244,broadcastingNum=928174,day=2,week=43,year=2008.html"&gt;http://www.arte.tv/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-8636768318553017698?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/8636768318553017698/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=8636768318553017698' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/8636768318553017698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/8636768318553017698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2008/10/october-2008-east-on-paradise-on-arte.html' title='OCTOBER 2008 : EAST ON PARADISE ON ARTE TV'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SPdEBPdJlnI/AAAAAAAAAIY/OAILlaZLvXw/s72-c/EOP+Lech+and+Mark+Brady+479.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-3820708088704179716</id><published>2008-09-28T18:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-29T06:51:50.614-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CAMERAWAR.TV IS ONLINE</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/N_cwfiO3TAM"&gt; &lt;/param&gt; &lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/N_cwfiO3TAM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE  - PRESS RELEASE - COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE  - PRESS RELEASE - COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE  - PRESS RELEASE -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;version française ci-dessous&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is cinema dead?&lt;br /&gt;What is cinema in the age of globalization?&lt;br /&gt;Why can't a greater public see the many films that play mainly in film festivals?&lt;br /&gt;Like the music business, is the film business broken?&lt;br /&gt;Where will movies play in the future?&lt;br /&gt;Do we need a new cinema?&lt;br /&gt;Is the Internet the venue for a new kind of movie?&lt;br /&gt;Many questions have steered me to create:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.camerawar.tv"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.camerawar.tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{+ &lt;a href="http://camera-war.blogspot.com"&gt;http://camera-war.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt; }&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On September 29th a new kind of documentary is launched on the Internet and for one year, every Monday, new film chapters of varying lengths, will be posted online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every film chapter, in and of itself, is a short documentary but when viewed together, whether chronologically or in arbitrary sequences, tell a story. They can be viewed in any order. These are not viral videos or news reports. This is a new cinema narrative technique and the Internet is the only way to tell this story. This presents a new way to watch a film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a new kind of cinema in a new venue, a cinema free of television and corporate production restraints. It rips away the walls corporations have erected between the audience and artists, an experimental cinema, sorely lacking in the new world order, accessible outside of traditional venues and television.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director Lech Kowalski blogs about each chapter and the audience can interact with comments or submit films and music of their own. Jerome Soudan from Mimetic is the musical composer for the documentary. Web designer Jerome Pidoux, known as Elephant has designed the site. Chapters can be viewed full screen, smaller image or with a black border. Headsets or external speakers connected to the computer will produce optimum sound quality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Director Lech Kowalski is a cult figure in underground cinema. Renowned for his controversial award-winning documentaries a journalist once called him "a warrior battling with a camera to redefine the art of documentary" Born in London to Polish immigrants who fled Russian concentration camps, Kowalski grew up in nomadic displacement in the United States.  He began his carrier in the 70's in New York. His impressive array of documentaries have garnered critical praise and awards such as the Jury Award for East of Paradise at Venice film festival in 2005, the Special Jury Award for On Hitler's Highway at the 2002 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, and the Golden Gate Award for Rock Soup at the 1992 San Francisco International Film Festival. His seminal film, DOA (1980), is a punk escapade that follows the Sex Pistols tour of the USA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http://camerawar.tv&gt;camerawar.tv - A Capricci Films &amp; Extinkt Films coproduction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Capricci Films is a French production and distribution company based in Nantes. It's catalogue includes films by Pedro Costa, Albert Serra and Jean-Claude Rousseau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extinkt Films, created by Lech Kowalski and  Odile Allard, produces and distributes Lech Kowalski's films.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http://camerawar.tv&gt;camerawar.tv is partially funded by CNAP, (French National Center for Visuals Arts), CNC-French National Cinema Center-(help for innovative documentary, DICRÉAM), and has a partnership with 104, where screenings of the film chapters are shown  to the public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                                         ----&lt;&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le cinéma est-il mort ?&lt;br /&gt;Que représente-t-il à l’ère de la mondialisation?&lt;br /&gt;Pourquoi le public a-t-il si peu accès aux films projetés en festivals ?&lt;br /&gt;À l’instar de l’industrie musicale, l’industrie du cinéma serait-elle défaillante ?&lt;br /&gt; Où les films seront-ils visibles à l’avenir?&lt;br /&gt;Assisterons-nous à l’émergence d’un nouveau type de cinéma ?&lt;br /&gt;L’internet deviendra-t-il le nouveau lieu de diffusion des films ?&lt;br /&gt;Toutes ces questions m’ont conduit à la création de&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http://www.camerawar.tv&gt;http://www.camerawar.tv&lt;br /&gt;{+ &lt;http://camera-war.blogspot.com&gt;http://camera-war.blogspot.com }&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le 29 septembre, je proposerai sur internet une nouvelle forme de documentaire. Tous les lundis, pendant un an, je mettrai en ligne de nouveaux « films chapitres » de longueur différente. Chacun de ces « films chapitres » sera un court documentaire en soi. Visionnés avec d’autres, de façon chronologique ou arbitraire, ils formeront une histoire. Ils seront aussi liés par la présence sonore commune des créations de Mimetic. Il ne s’agira ni de vidéos virales, ni de vidéos d’actualités, mais d’une nouvelle forme de narration et de visionnage filmiques que seul l’internet rend possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;camerawar.tv propose une nouvelle forme de cinéma grâce à un outil de diffusion innovant. Un cinéma libéré des chaînes de télévision et des restrictions que subit aujourd’hui la production industrielle ; un cinéma qui détruit les murs érigés par les industriels entre le public et les artistes ; un cinéma expérimental qui manque cruellement dans le nouvel ordre mondial, qui s’affranchit des lieux de diffusion traditionnelle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chaque film chapitre sera assorti d’un blog sur lequel le public sera invité à réagir en envoyant des commentaires, des vidéos, des photos, des sons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un soin particulier a été apporté à la technicité du site (créé par Elephant – webdesigner Jérôme Pidoux), tant au niveau visuel (lecture possible en plein écran) que sonore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Né à Londres de parents polonais, Lech Kowalski a grandi aux Etats-Unis. Il débute sa carrière à New-York dans les années soixante-dix avec l’artiste Nam June Paik et la cinéaste Shirley Clarke. Témoin essentiel de l’essor du mouvement punk, il signe en  1981 D.O.A. : A Rite of passage, film culte sur la tournée des Sex Pistols aux États-Unis. Il consacre ensuite son travail au devenir des musiciens de la scène punk (Born To Lose ; Hey is Dee Dee Home), aux junkies du Lower East Side  (Gringo, Story of a Junkie) et aux sans-abri (Rock Soup). De retour en Europe, il conçoit une trilogie intitulée The Fabulous Art of Surviving dont le dernier opus, East of Paradise, a été primé à Venise en 2005.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http://camerawar.tv&gt;camerawar.tv - Une  coproduction Capricci Films &amp; Extinkt Films&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Capricci Films est une société de production et de distribution nantaise. Son catalogue comprend notamment des œuvres de Pedro Costa, Albert Serra et Jean-Claude Rousseau.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La société américaine Extinkt Films, créée par Lech Kowalski et Odile Allard, accompagne les productions du réalisateur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le projet camerawar.tv est déjà soutenu par le CNAP (image/mouvement) et le CNC (aide à l'innovation documentaire et DICRÉAM), en partenariat avec le 104 où seront organisées des projections de certains « films chapitres ».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contacts : &lt;mailto:camerawar@gmail.com&gt;camerawar@gmail.com - &lt;mailto:kingoutlaw@noos.fr&gt;kingoutlaw@noos.fr - &lt;mailto:contact@capricci.fr&gt;contact@capricci.fr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can be removed at any time. Simply e-mail your request remove my E-mail list to &lt;mailto:camerawar@gmail.com&gt;camerawar@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;Nous pouvons retirer votre nom de notre liste à tout moment, envoyez-nous un mail camerawar@gmail.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-3820708088704179716?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/3820708088704179716/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=3820708088704179716' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/3820708088704179716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/3820708088704179716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2008/09/camerawartv-is-online.html' title='CAMERAWAR.TV IS ONLINE'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-293066853327950414</id><published>2008-06-01T00:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T08:23:18.407-07:00</updated><title type='text'>JUNE 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SEk65ORo8MI/AAAAAAAAAF8/zpYdHLbqhoI/s1600-h/tracks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SEk65ORo8MI/AAAAAAAAAF8/zpYdHLbqhoI/s400/tracks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208759198789726402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On June 13 on the French German channel ARTE in the magazine TRACKS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see a portrait of Lech Kowalski shot during  a retrospective at the RENCONTRES DE PARIS last december in Paris, France&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-655f4c6fff7cfb1c" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v8.nonxt7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D655f4c6fff7cfb1c%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330360058%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D42F2B55F392B4402D0FF5C11727D97E13B47979F.71A1D0C45D544CBEA7793A516FC04B04ED59672C%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D655f4c6fff7cfb1c%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DuigfCEM3jwYUYZO1SylDWEHZTwI&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v8.nonxt7.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D655f4c6fff7cfb1c%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330360058%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D42F2B55F392B4402D0FF5C11727D97E13B47979F.71A1D0C45D544CBEA7793A516FC04B04ED59672C%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D655f4c6fff7cfb1c%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DuigfCEM3jwYUYZO1SylDWEHZTwI&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.arte.tv/fr/art-musique/tracks/emissions-a-venir/396804.html"&gt;http://www.arte.tv/fr/art-musique/tracks/emissions-a-venir/396804.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;On June 12 &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;D.O.A.&lt;/span&gt; will be screened in Los Angeles&lt;br /&gt;at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film archive,&lt;br /&gt;as part of a  film series &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Louder, Faster: Punk in Performance&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SEL_51YS9sI/AAAAAAAAAF0/5cIQ_FFjxlU/s1600-h/berkeleypacific.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/SEL_51YS9sI/AAAAAAAAAF0/5cIQ_FFjxlU/s320/berkeleypacific.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207005488240326338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More information :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/punkfilms2008"&gt;http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/punkfilms2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Screenings of    &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;"&gt;EAST OF PARADISE&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CAMERA GUN&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DIARY OF A MARRIED MAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland on Friday June 6.&lt;br /&gt;Lech will attend a discussion after the screenings which are open to the public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday June 6 :&lt;br /&gt;10h30 :  Camera Gun » (2003), 29 min and  « Diary of a&lt;br /&gt;Married Man » (2005), 22 min&lt;br /&gt;13h00 : «East of Paradise» (2005), 105 min.&lt;br /&gt;15h00-17h00 : Discussion with Lech Kowalski&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ECAL/Ecole d’art de Lausanne,&lt;br /&gt;Renens (avenue du Temple 5),&lt;br /&gt;auditoire Leenards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Free entrance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More information at :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ecal.ch/"&gt;http/:www.ecal.ch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On June 1st,&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R-lnwVPbhBI/AAAAAAAAAFk/RglSSUjSYUk/s400/master%2520class.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181786926299710482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lech will be in TUI, Spain  at the play-doc festival ( from March 12 to March 16)  for a master class&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R-AHU6cr3vI/AAAAAAAAAFc/snFY8S6anmY/s1600-h/lktuy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R-AHU6cr3vI/AAAAAAAAAFc/snFY8S6anmY/s400/lktuy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179147627344420594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R-AGGacr3uI/AAAAAAAAAFU/IvzPlBXge30/s1600-h/mastertuy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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FILM ACADEMY</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R7BaNOJsjKI/AAAAAAAAAFM/oewRnLZ-1LI/s1600-h/image+87.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R7BaNOJsjKI/AAAAAAAAAFM/oewRnLZ-1LI/s400/image+87.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165727955777522850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Lech Kowalski has officially become a menber of the Food and film academy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Slow Food movement, which defends the biodiversity of food and agriculture with initiatives that support and enhance the quality of small productions in danger of extinction, wants to open itself to new forms of communication. This year it has given birth to an international festival of film and food called Slow Food on Film, which will take place in Bologna Italy from 7th to 11th May, with the collaboration of Bologna’s Film Library&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be competitions, retrospectives, special events and gastronomic moments, but Slow Food on Film wants to be more than a simple thematic festival for food and film experts. It is eager to set itself as a laboratory of ideas on audiovisual communication of gastronomy, an international experience of reflection and comparison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;their aim is to promote and stimulate a new critical awareness in the food culture by showing films, shorts, documentaries and even TV series that develop an original perspective on food (deep feelings, frames of mind, sense of belonging), on the problematic issues of food and agriculture (economic, social and environmental effects) and on gastronomic memory as a heritage to preserve. The festival wants to give voice and space to this bright production – fiction and documentary – that really aims to reflect constructively on the primary gesture of our lives: eating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;they have decided to establish an international network of friends of the festival, made up of people who, in their professional life, have shown an interest in both film and food, and who intend to help Slow Food on Film grow in the best ways possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They  have named this “network” the FOOD &amp;amp; FILM ACADEMY. Lech Kowalski is one of the member of this network. So he will recommend the titles of films, documentaries, and short TV series for the festiva and Vote for the best of 5 feature films of fiction in the category Best Food Feature&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(all the information can be found at &lt;a href="http://www.slowfoodonfilm.com/"&gt;www.slowfoodonfilm.com&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-6557921807605386309?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/6557921807605386309/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=6557921807605386309' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/6557921807605386309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/6557921807605386309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2008/02/food-film-academy.html' title='FOOD &amp; FILM ACADEMY'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R7BaNOJsjKI/AAAAAAAAAFM/oewRnLZ-1LI/s72-c/image+87.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-9188389978859470974</id><published>2008-01-31T14:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-01T12:40:55.229-08:00</updated><title type='text'>FEBRUARY 2008 : COMBAT ROCK</title><content type='html'>On February 6 and 7, at cinema l'Ecran in Saint Denis, Lech Kowalski will be showing some of his films at the festival COMBAT ROCK&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5N3aJw6hVI/AAAAAAAAADU/EWnFTf2MoMg/s1600-h/combatrock.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5N3aJw6hVI/AAAAAAAAADU/EWnFTf2MoMg/s400/combatrock.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157597289450734930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The festival  will screen:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Born To Lose (the last rock and roll movie)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6Ns3oDUWuI/AAAAAAAAAEc/I5Ksf93Ux5Q/s1600-h/BTLPosterdomo72dpi.jpg+1"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6Ns3oDUWuI/AAAAAAAAAEc/I5Ksf93Ux5Q/s400/BTLPosterdomo72dpi.jpg+1" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162089300796660450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;D.O.A.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6NtIoDUWvI/AAAAAAAAAEk/BWNHLif4Ot4/s1600-h/doa-sign.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6NtIoDUWvI/AAAAAAAAAEk/BWNHLif4Ot4/s400/doa-sign.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162089592854436594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hey Is Dee Dee Home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6NtrIDUWwI/AAAAAAAAAEs/ax4x6-z46dg/s1600-h/pola2"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6NtrIDUWwI/AAAAAAAAAEs/ax4x6-z46dg/s400/pola2" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162090185559923458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Lech will also premiere two new shorts films that are part of the dvd release of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Born To Lose (the last rock and roll movie) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;planned for 2008 :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;What Happened in New Orleans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6Nt-IDUWxI/AAAAAAAAAE0/aAiDWvS7LLE/s1600-h/WHINORusty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6Nt-IDUWxI/AAAAAAAAAE0/aAiDWvS7LLE/s400/WHINORusty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162090511977437970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"In 1991 Johnny Thunders went to New Orleans. It's not sure why. Did he plan to move there? Was he interested in recording new music?  Did he want to write new material? Was he planning to meet friends who live there? Before he left for New Orleans, Thunders listened to songs recorded by Willy DeVille. He checked into a hotel in the French Quarter located right next to where DeVille lived. Less than 24 hours later he was found dead in his hotel room and to this day the police have not solved the mystery of his death. But many characters from the French Quarter have something to say about what happened to Thunders on June 21, 1991."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lech Kowalski&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Unfinished&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6NyxoDUWzI/AAAAAAAAAFE/npVpc8i4Z_s/s1600-h/jhonny%27s-guitar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6NyxoDUWzI/AAAAAAAAAFE/npVpc8i4Z_s/s400/jhonny%27s-guitar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162095794787212082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"I started to make this film with Johnny Thunders in 1982. The first scene we filmed was inspired by a picture of Christ on his way to be crucified. We used passages from the bible as the script and filmed Thunders in the basement of a dingy transient hotel on East 22 Second Street. Later, I filmed Thunders performing at the Mudd club in downtown New York. After filming several more scenes, Thunders and his manager had to suddenly flee the city. His manager was somehow implicated in someone's death and Thunders moved to Europe. The film footage was stored in a laboratory vault. Many years later most of the labs in New York closed and some of the material was lost.  Stations of the Cross Unfinished film was finally completed with the material I managed to save. "&lt;br /&gt;Lech Kowalski&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chronique d'une mort annoncée : les films rock de Lech Kowalski&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Automne 1977. New York ne s'émeut guère du raz-de-marée punk qui affole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;l'Angleterre. Parce que c'est ici qu'il est né en tant que musique - New York Dolls en 1972, Ramones en 1974 -, parce que la charge politique n'y prend pas la forme d'une violence médiatique, mais structure l'existence et l'art d'un monde souterrain autonome. Né à Londres de parents polonais, installé à New York en 1971, Lech Kowalski est en 1977 un acteur et témoin important de l'underground new-yorkais. Sous l'influence de Shirley Clarke et Tom Reichman, il a réalisé une série de films dans et sur l'industrie du porno, que vient de Clore son premier long métrage, Sex Stars. Lorsqu'il part à l'hiver 1977 sur les traces des Sex Pistols en tournée américaine, Kowalski ne fait que prolonger son immersion dans un milieu qu'il a fait sien depuis son adolescence : une sous culture où se mêlent le rock, la drogue et le sexe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Dead On Arrival: en 1981, le punk est mort depuis longtemps, mais c'est manquer la beauté singulière du film que de n'y voir que la chronique d'une désintégration. Après vingt ans de liquidation via Thatcher et Blair, il apparaît comme l'émouvante élégie d'une certaine Angleterre. Les Sex Pistols ne sont que le symptôme spectaculaire d'une ultime décharge d'énergie populaire, dont D.O.A. compose un tableau éclaté et précis. Comme dans tous ses films, Kowalski néglige le bon goût et les prescriptions esthético-morales du documentaire pour sculpter sa matière hétérogène avec un génie musical du montage. Il ne craint pas le clip et prouve que cette forme peut atteindre à la plus haute efficacité descriptive - Breakdance Test. Parmi les nombreux clips enchaînés dans D.O.A. au son des Pistols, The Clash, Sham 69 ou des merveilleux X-ray Spex, celui de God Save the Queen condense en deux minutes le présent et l'avenir de l'Angleterre : claire promesse et sombre prophétie d'une foule d'enfants blancs et noirs sautillant et riant sur le "no future" des Pistols.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Loin de se limiter au genre "documentaire musical ", la série des films rock de Lech Kowalski compose la précieuse archive d'un monde disparu : l'underground new-yorkais. C'est avant tout sur les visages, que Kowalski saisit l'éclat et l'ombre d'un présent promis au néant. Visages anonymes qui gravitent autour de celui de Johnny Thunders et des autres stars underground de Born to Lose (2001). The Last Rock and Roll Movie : le film porte bien son sous-titre. Parce que le leader des Heartbreakers reste l'ultime icône rock, petite frappe flamboyante et junkie suicidaire, parce que le montage de Kowalski chauffe d'une même flamme ses captations des Heartbreakers en concert, des interviews des proches de Thunders et les archives vidéo des New York Dolls par Bob Gruen. Parmi les interviews, celle de Dee Dee Ramone se distingue par la générosité de la parole et celle de sa mise en scène : le visage marqué, l'œil brillant et les tatouages du bassiste des Ramones découpés dans le noir. Kowalski n'arrache pas au gentil junkie de piquants secrets, il rend hommage à un héros, un survivant, sculpte son monument. Douze ans plus tard, lorsque Dee Dee meurt à son tour d'une overdose, l'interview fournit la trame d'un affectueux portrait, Hey is Dee Dee Home. Autant que les derniers feux du rock, la vie avec la dope est l'autre sujet des films jumeaux que sont Born to Lose et Hey is... On pense à The Daik Stuff, le livre de Nick Kent sur le sinistre "envers du rock" rongé par la drogue. Mais quand la chronique de Kent tourne parfois à la facile démythification, Kowalski ne distingue jamais l'envers de l'endroit. Il ne sépare pas les lâchetés des héroïsmes, ne juge personne, mais restitue comme personne l'énergie aujourd'hui éteinte, la vérité fiévreuse d'un monde perdu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman;"&gt;Cyril Neyrat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He will be in Saint Denis to introduce and discuss his films on  both days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The detailed program :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5N4Spw6hWI/AAAAAAAAADc/b-MSYB3e3lo/s400/prog+combat+rock.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157598260113343842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find more information and check out the festival at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.combatrock.fr/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.combatrock.fr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hors circuits will held a temporary library there with some of lech's films already available on dvd.&lt;br /&gt;more at :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.horscircuits.com/"&gt;http://www.horscircuits.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DOA:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Chttp://www.horscircuits.com/site.php?type=P&amp;amp;id=96%3Ehttp://www.horscircuits.com/site.php?type=P&amp;amp;id=96"&gt;&lt;http: com="" type="p&amp;amp;id=96"&gt;http://www.horscircuits.com/site.php?type=P&amp;amp;id=96 &lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;http: com="" type="p&amp;amp;id=96"&gt;Hey Is Dee Dee Home:&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Chttp://www.horscircuits.com/site.php?type=P&amp;amp;id=97%3Ehttp://www.horscircuits.com/site.php?type=P&amp;amp;id=97"&gt;&lt;http: com="" type="p&amp;amp;id=97"&gt;http://www.horscircuits.com/site.php?type=P&amp;amp;id=97&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-9188389978859470974?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/9188389978859470974/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=9188389978859470974' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/9188389978859470974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/9188389978859470974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2008/01/february-2008-combat-rock_31.html' title='FEBRUARY 2008 : COMBAT ROCK'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5N3aJw6hVI/AAAAAAAAADU/EWnFTf2MoMg/s72-c/combatrock.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-3591852050022652328</id><published>2008-01-20T08:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-18T11:23:25.691-07:00</updated><title type='text'>JANUARY 2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jlKfZRONI/AAAAAAAAADs/87oVdXkSnTk/s1600-h/frcult.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jlKfZRONI/AAAAAAAAADs/87oVdXkSnTk/s400/frcult.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159125341541841106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On  the French radio network &lt;div&gt;FRANCE CULTURE &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as part of a series of portraits of  filmmakers called &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;LES PASSEURS DU REEL, &lt;div&gt;you can hear a program about Lech Kowalski.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jlc_ZROOI/AAAAAAAAAD0/8zNmCZMaIKg/s1600-h/topfrcult.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jlc_ZROOI/AAAAAAAAAD0/8zNmCZMaIKg/s400/topfrcult.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159125659369421026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jkuvZROMI/AAAAAAAAADk/9k3QAb7AqyU/s1600-h/franceculturesummary.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jkuvZROMI/AAAAAAAAADk/9k3QAb7AqyU/s400/franceculturesummary.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159124864800471234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;To download the show &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Vue sur les docks&lt;/span&gt; about Lech Kowalski :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; and podcast it, clich here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://dl.free.fr/izwhAYnW6/SURLESDOCKS_LechKowalskiouledocuinflammable-24.01.2008.mp3"&gt;Sur les docks  du 24 janvier 2008 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lech Kowalski will be in Barcelona for the MEMORIA DEL FUTUR &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the UAB creative master&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(from the january 21 to 27), where he will give a master class.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; Some of his films will screen at the Filmoteca de Catalalunya in Barcelona.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jwDPZROQI/AAAAAAAAAEE/xTORiPYlXXk/s1600-h/barce2j.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jwDPZROQI/AAAAAAAAAEE/xTORiPYlXXk/s400/barce2j.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159137311615695106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jtBPZROPI/AAAAAAAAAD8/EhvxhRBjznk/s1600-h/barce3j.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jtBPZROPI/AAAAAAAAAD8/EhvxhRBjznk/s400/barce3j.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159133978721073394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;more information at :&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.documentalcreativo.edu.es/aniversario.htm"&gt;http://www.documentalcreativo.edu.es&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6JJyoDUWtI/AAAAAAAAAEU/Q9d5wZkud0A/s1600-h/_MG_9441.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R6JJyoDUWtI/AAAAAAAAAEU/Q9d5wZkud0A/s400/_MG_9441.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161769257013631698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;picture by Elena Oroz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*********************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January  15, Lech will be in Aoste for a screening of  East Of Paradise  at FRONTDOC les rencontres documentaires  d'AOSTE, Italy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-3591852050022652328?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/3591852050022652328/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=3591852050022652328' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/3591852050022652328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/3591852050022652328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2008/01/january-2008.html' title='JANUARY 2008'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R5jlKfZRONI/AAAAAAAAADs/87oVdXkSnTk/s72-c/frcult.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-4820715934709372595</id><published>2007-11-30T06:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-03T06:19:57.915-08:00</updated><title type='text'>RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DE CINEMA  À PARIS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.france24.com/france24Public/fr/nouvelles/culture.html"&gt;Lech Kowalski on France 24 :&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R1Al0ctH2dI/AAAAAAAAAB0/TViJNPupOYk/s1600-R/france+24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R1Al0ctH2dI/AAAAAAAAAB0/l-aoBbzy7MQ/s400/france+24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138648757818612178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-a75cce3c12da71ae" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v10.nonxt8.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Da75cce3c12da71ae%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330360058%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D7C781F45631842996CE0459E87941EEEB76D2BB1.170ACA992394722FC860962ADB1AEAF1F3723DEA%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Da75cce3c12da71ae%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DyzUw0huiTsXUE6HYAhZEH_nn38g&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v10.nonxt8.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Da75cce3c12da71ae%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330360058%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D7C781F45631842996CE0459E87941EEEB76D2BB1.170ACA992394722FC860962ADB1AEAF1F3723DEA%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Da75cce3c12da71ae%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DyzUw0huiTsXUE6HYAhZEH_nn38g&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/minuit_dix/fiche.php?diffusion_id=57656"&gt;Lech Kowalski at France Culture in the MINUIT/DIX show :&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R1ApLctH2eI/AAAAAAAAAB8/TcmQRP1ds1s/s1600-R/minuitdix.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R1ApLctH2eI/AAAAAAAAAB8/NvT5ao1IGsk/s400/minuitdix.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138652451490486754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-4820715934709372595?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/4820715934709372595/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=4820715934709372595' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/4820715934709372595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/4820715934709372595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2007/11/rencontres-internationales-de-cinema.html' title='RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DE CINEMA  À PARIS'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/R1Al0ctH2dI/AAAAAAAAAB0/l-aoBbzy7MQ/s72-c/france+24.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-902822251895836917</id><published>2007-11-20T11:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-03T06:10:11.991-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MAR DEL PLATA</title><content type='html'>interview by Alejandro D. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Rzteo-QbsxI/AAAAAAAAABk/OyJpwV2XGzk/s320/%3D%3Futf-8%3Fq%3FImagen046.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132800258318512914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Camera War&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Production stills taken&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; by Martín Pastor.&lt;br /&gt;Mar del Plata,  Argentina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Rzta8-QbswI/AAAAAAAAABc/jGndJOAeI6c/s1600-h/%3D%3Futf-8%3Fq%3FImagen048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Rzta8-QbswI/AAAAAAAAABc/jGndJOAeI6c/s320/%3D%3Futf-8%3Fq%3FImagen048.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132796203869385474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Grabación:&lt;br /&gt;Javier Cortiellas (Production co-ordinator)&lt;br /&gt;Nicolas Berenz (Back y Producción)&lt;br /&gt;Amanda Martin (Foto fija)&lt;br /&gt;Guillermina Gomez (Arte y Producción)&lt;br /&gt;Demian Basualdo (Producción)&lt;br /&gt;Martin Pastor (Cameraman/Assistant cameraman)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***************************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lech Kowalski will be in Milano on Nov 16 to introduce &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;EAST OF PARADISE&lt;/span&gt; at the cine-forum of San Fedele cultural center&lt;br /&gt;more information : on &lt;a href="http://www.sanfedele.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;http://www.sanfedele.net/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RztV3OQbsvI/AAAAAAAAABU/BSFg2e81WaA/s1600-h/ilsanfedele5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RztV3OQbsvI/AAAAAAAAABU/BSFg2e81WaA/s320/ilsanfedele5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132790607526998770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*************************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lech kowalski will show a selection of his films in Paris at the &lt;a href="http://http//www.forumdesimages.net/fr/article.php?arti_id=245"&gt;RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES  DE PARIS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organized by the Forum des images, the Rencontres internationales de cinéma à Paris, will take place from November 27 - December 4, 2007 at the Reflet Médicis in Paris.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RwIEIbZMCbI/AAAAAAAAABM/9tsdhafd4zg/s1600-h/Lech+Kowalski+2005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RwIEIbZMCbI/AAAAAAAAABM/9tsdhafd4zg/s320/Lech+Kowalski+2005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116656669485173170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;                                                            &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Photo by Anne Pagano&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forumdesimages.net/fr/article.php?arti_id=245"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information here &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;******************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;November 9, 10 and 11, 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;  : "UN WEEK-END D’INEDITS"&lt;br /&gt;organized by les Cahiers du cinéma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;East of Paradise&lt;/span&gt; will be shown in Paris during as part as a selection of films made by&lt;br /&gt;les cahiers du cinema on Sunday November 11 at 13h45 at&lt;br /&gt;the Cinema le Pantheon, 13 rue Victor cousin, Paris 5.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RwIDk7ZMCaI/AAAAAAAAABE/LkZcfsdYZIo/s1600-h/undergroundny.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RwIDk7ZMCaI/AAAAAAAAABE/LkZcfsdYZIo/s320/undergroundny.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116656059599817122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;From November 27 to December 4, 2007.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cahiersducinema.com/site.php3"&gt;more information on the website des cahiers du Cinema. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**********************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;From Nov 2 to November 11, 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RwHby7ZMCZI/AAAAAAAAAA8/x2uA-lzXNAs/s1600-h/franja.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RwHby7ZMCZI/AAAAAAAAAA8/x2uA-lzXNAs/s320/franja.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116612319652874642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lech Kowalski will be in Mar del Plata for the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.festivalmdp.org/2007"&gt; Muestra International de cine independiente de mar del plata in Argentina MARFICI  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information &lt;a href="http://http//www.festivalmdp.org/2007/informacion.php?subaction=showfull&amp;amp;id=1190318202&amp;amp;archive=&amp;amp;start_from=&amp;amp;ucat=2&amp;amp;"&gt;on the website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***********************************************************************************&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-4156958067670449388?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/4156958067670449388/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=4156958067670449388' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/4156958067670449388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/4156958067670449388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2007/10/november-2007.html' title='NOVEMBER 2007'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/Rzteo-QbsxI/AAAAAAAAABk/OyJpwV2XGzk/s72-c/%3D%3Futf-8%3Fq%3FImagen046.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-2166833063508971352</id><published>2007-10-01T22:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T22:38:38.257-07:00</updated><title type='text'>OCTOBER 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RwHYPLZMCYI/AAAAAAAAAA0/R0ZjYrbu1dA/s1600-h/index_r2_c4.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RwHYPLZMCYI/AAAAAAAAAA0/R0ZjYrbu1dA/s320/index_r2_c4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116608406937667970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lech Kowalski will be in Lisbon during Doclisboa for a retrospective of his films.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He will present a selection of his work and  will also give a Masterclass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More informations about the program &lt;a href="http://www.doclisboa.org/"&gt;http://www.doclisboa.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-2166833063508971352?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/2166833063508971352/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=2166833063508971352' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/2166833063508971352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/2166833063508971352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2007/10/october-2007.html' title='OCTOBER 2007'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RwHYPLZMCYI/AAAAAAAAAA0/R0ZjYrbu1dA/s72-c/index_r2_c4.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-4328971313179009063</id><published>2007-08-15T14:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-16T10:54:27.579-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL</title><content type='html'>On the Piazza Grande on August 11, 2007 after the award ceremony,&lt;br /&gt;presented as the closing film of the festival,&lt;br /&gt;the world premiere of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Winners and Losers&lt;/span&gt; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RqkUIiZo4-I/AAAAAAAAAAc/v8HoH941I1M/s320/locarnocatalog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091622990624908258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 2006 world cup football final made infamous by Zidane’s head butt to Materazzi presented a perfect opportunity for a unique film.&lt;br /&gt;We hear the French and the Italian announcers but never see football players or action on the field. Instead we follow the action by watching French and Italian spectators watching the game. We are with them in Paris and Rome, in their homes, in cafes or in Stadiums.&lt;br /&gt;They are the main characters.&lt;br /&gt;They represent the two teams and are as important as the unseen stars on the field.&lt;br /&gt;Each person watching the finale was, at least for the duration of the game, deeply nationalistic. Eyes gaze in anticipation. Every tic, every reaction reveals hope and dread. But the people we are watching are more than spectators. We are observing people being themselves. They are mirrors. We are watching ourselves.  The film is about people as much as it is about football.&lt;br /&gt;Today we know that Italy beat France but the people in Winners and Losers will live forever, waiting to the very last seconds of the game, hoping their side will win.&lt;br /&gt;When the screen fades toblack, something stays with us,&lt;br /&gt;something more profound than a football score.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-7633727538096149101?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/7633727538096149101/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=7633727538096149101' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7633727538096149101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7633727538096149101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2007/07/august-2007.html' title='AUGUST 2007'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RqkUIiZo4-I/AAAAAAAAAAc/v8HoH941I1M/s72-c/locarnocatalog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-5019938287470605102</id><published>2007-06-26T15:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T15:43:10.259-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More in  JUNE 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le Samedi 30 juin 2007 au  Cinéma Jacques Tati&lt;br /&gt;à Tremblay en France,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dans le cadre de la soirée :&lt;br /&gt;DIY (do it yourself) : L’ESPRIT PUNK&lt;br /&gt;vous pourrez voir ou revoir :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE BOOT FACTORY&lt;br /&gt;de Lech Kowalski&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20 heures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RoGVdjQIMgI/AAAAAAAAAAU/rIZaL75yI9g/s1600-h/affiche-de-la-soir%C3%A9elight.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RoGVdjQIMgI/AAAAAAAAAAU/rIZaL75yI9g/s200/affiche-de-la-soir%C3%A9elight.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080506189562262018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dans le film, on voit de jeunes punks s'amuser à reconnaître, au fil des pages d'un album illustré, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop ou The Ramones. Mais on est bien loin de New York, dans la région de Cracovie. Lech Kowalski, né à Londres de parents polonais ayant fui les camps soviétiques, a retrouvé avec «The Boot Factory» tout à la fois ses racines familiales et un mouvement underground aussi frais que celui qu'il avait connu vingt ans plus tôt à New York. C'est en allant pour la première fois dans son pays d'origine pour y montrer ses fIlms que Lech Kowalski rencontre Lukasz Siska, jeune punk qui s'extasie devant ses images des Sex Pistols et lui  montre ses bottes, il les a faites lui-même. C'est le déclic et le début du tournage. Lukasz et ses copains fabriquent ce genre de hautes bottes qui chaussent les punks du monde entier, du modeste trois œillets au glorieux 14 œillets, en noir bien sûr, mais aussi dans des cuirs de couleurs. «Avant, elles venaient de Roumanie. On les appelait les roumounes. » Comme il y avait une «niche, les jeunes punks de Cracovie s'en sont emparés. Le marché est en train de se développer et touche désormais une clientèle beaucoup plus classique, comme le montre une scène où une jeune fille sage vient, accompagnée de sa mère, se choisir une paire de bottes de punk.&lt;br /&gt;La fabrique est née dans un squat, une même pièce servant de dortoir, d'atelier et de salle des fêtes. La petite entreprise grandit. Les fêtes continuent, noyées dans la bière. Des chanteurs hurlent ce qu'ils sont encore capables de hurler dans des micros auxquels ils se raccrochent, l'œil vague. La musique accompagne d'ailleurs en permanence les journées de travail façon punk. Et tout en cousant le cuir, en collant les semelles- avec de mauvais masques à gaz pour se protéger des solvants -, on chante en chœur de puissants airs scatologiques, où il est question de relations pas du tout catholiques entre un sacristain et un marin. Lukasz et ses amis témoignent de leur difficulté à vivre dans une Pologne qu'ils disent minée par le népotisme, de leur destin de brebis galeuses. La fabrique de bottes leur permet de nier cette infortune. La première partie du documentaire se termine d'ailleurs sur le mariage de l'un d'eux, Piotr. Bottes bien cirées, look des grands jours, mairie, champagne et promesses. ..&lt;br /&gt;Pour la seconde partie, six mois plus tard, Lech Kowalski abandonne le noir et blanc pour la couleur. Pourtant, la réalité n'est pas très rose. Piotr a eu un bébé, mais il doit, tout comme Wojtek, se battre contre l'emprise de l'héroïne. À la fin du documentaire, un carton annoncera que l'un est parti pour deux ans dans un camp de réintégration par le travail de l'autre côté de la Pologne, et que l'autre a eu un bébé avec une nouvelle fille de l'atelier. Pour faire face aux commandes, Lukasz embauche. Pas de discours économique dans le film de Kowalski. On n'apprendra rien sur la méthode de gestion de cette entreprise originale. La caméra montre simplement la vie de ces punks au plus près. Elle adopte le rythme anarchiste de l&lt;span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_JustifyFull" title="Justifier" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 13);ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;img src="img/gl.align.full.gif" alt="Justifier" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;eur existence, filme la main qui bat un rythme, celle qui enfonce le poinçon dans le cuir, les visages piercés. . . Et leurs bottes, beaux objets fétiches d'une culture de dérision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Elisabeth Chardon /Télé Temps Suisse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;C'est la chronique d'une petite fabrique un atelier-squat dans les faubourgs de Cracovie. Artisanalement, Lukasz, Piotr et Wojtek y confectionnent des grosses pompes façon Doc Martens made in Poland. Au fil des quatre saisons, la caméra a vécu à leur rythme : d'abord dans un noir et blanc " qui ex-prime la partie mythique de la vie de "l'entreprise' ; en couleur ensuite ‘pour montrer une autre réalité, celle des dysfonctionnements et des diffi-cultés de vivre’, explique le réalisateur. Résoudre l'équation « Implication dans la société et préservation de ses diffé-rences » n'a rien d'évident. Ou com-ment être à la fois dans et en dehors des normes, travailler pour gagner sa vie tout en continuant à écluser des litres de bière et à se shooter. Le cadre et le montage des images vibrent en accord avec la musique punk-rock qui envahit l'atelier le jour, et les fêtes la nuit. The Boot Factory est la rencontre punching-ball et compréhensive de deux cultures alternatives. Celle de jeunes Polonais qui tentent d'allier le sérieux et le destroy, et de Lech Kowalski, réalisateur anglais d'origine polonaise, américain d'adoption, devenu l'un des chefs de file du cinéma underground US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cécile Maveyraud / Télérama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au début, on se dit : horreur, la vie des punks polonais de la grande banlieue de Cracovie, filmée en noir et blanc charbonneux et tournée caméra à l'épaule. Glauque. Et puis pas du tout. En assistant à une beuverie appuyée chez ces artisans-Oï qui se vautrent dans la néo-sauvagerie comme des cochons dans la fange, on a presque envie de baptiser ce film le "Scorpio Rising de la cordonnerie" — ces punks étant également des fabricants de rangers. Mais cette référence est finalement un peu déplacée, car on est loin des délires maniéristes de Kenneth Anger sur les Hells Angels new-yorkais des années 60. "Ma petite entreprise de Docs" serait finalement un titre plus approprié. Enfin bref, une fois accoutumé au tangage visuel, une fois qu'on a capté de quoi il retourne — ça prend du temps, il n'y a pas de commentaire explicatif—, on y prend goût, on s'attache à ces êtres frustes, ex-taulards, ex-drogués, qui vendent et fabriquent des croquenots orthopédiques dans . un pavillon de banlieue, en collant des semelles compensées avec une colle qu'ils pourraient sniffer, en écoutant à dont des hymnes punk-skin, en polonais dans le texte. C'est aussi ça, la force du cinéma : rendre humains et émouvants des êtres dont, a priori, nous n aurions pas une folle envie de faire la connaissance. Au-delà de leurs tatouages, leurs piercings, ces cordonniers marginaux sont d'ailleurs des artisans-prolos très conventionnels, qui n'omettent pas de se marier, de payer leurs traites, etc. Certes, ça déraille quand deux d'entre eux retombent dans la dope, et se font même taper sur les doigts par leur patron coiffé comme un Hun quand ils sont en retard au boulot, mais cet accoutrement, ces rustiques goûts musicaux sont finalement le reflet du monde dans lequel ils vivent. Eternelles années 70 grisâtres. Quant à la réalisation, elle est au diapason : antisophistiquée au possible. Un gage d'honnêteté et de vérité. On ne pige pas vraiment pourquoi le film passe sans crier gare à la couleur vers la fin. Mais est-ce bien grave, dans le fond ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Vincent Ostria/ les inrockuptibles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Renseignements :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tremblay-en-france.fr/page/p-103/art_id-2410/"&gt;http://www.tremblay-en-france.fr/page/p-103/art_id-2410/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour réserver :&lt;br /&gt;01 48 61 94 26 ou cinema.tati@ville-tremblay-en-France.fr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour venir :&lt;br /&gt;Cinéma Jacques Tati. Site : &lt;a href="http://www.tremblay-en-france.fr"&gt;www.tremblay-en-france.fr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29 bis avenue du général de Gaulle – 93290 – Tremblay-en-France&lt;br /&gt;RER B, direction Mitry-Claye, arrêt Vert-Galant, passer sous les voies puis continuer tout droit, le cinéma est à 400 mètres.&lt;br /&gt;Nous sommes à 20 minutes de Gare du Nord.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-5019938287470605102?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/5019938287470605102/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=5019938287470605102' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/5019938287470605102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/5019938287470605102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-in-june-2007.html' title='More in  JUNE 2007'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RoGVdjQIMgI/AAAAAAAAAAU/rIZaL75yI9g/s72-c/affiche-de-la-soir%C3%A9elight.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-7176582204051848491</id><published>2007-05-23T10:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-29T04:33:33.679-07:00</updated><title type='text'>JUNE 2007</title><content type='html'>In Paris, on june 21, 2007 at the Cinéma MK2 Quai de Seine as part as Rock 'n 'docs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;You will have the chance to see&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; D.O.A.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A rite of passage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Lech Kowalski's cult movie&lt;br /&gt;about&lt;br /&gt;the one and only Sex Pistols tour in the USA in 1978,&lt;br /&gt;as part as whole night of films and music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RlwEg2o1E0I/AAAAAAAAAAM/S3VyrEYOmLc/s1600-h/affiche+rock%27n%27docs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RlwEg2o1E0I/AAAAAAAAAAM/S3VyrEYOmLc/s320/affiche+rock%27n%27docs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069932242981425986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;with French subtitles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Filmed in '78 as it happened, when it happened, like it happened, DOA is the legendary and definitive document of the punk generation seen through the demise of The Sex Pistols whilst on their ill-fated US tour which saw both the break-up of the band and the death of Sid Vicious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Loaded with explosive performances from the prime movers of movement including The Sex Pistols (doing Anarchy In The U.K, God Save The Queen, No Fun, Pretty Vacant, Holidays In The Sun and heaps more), X Ray Specs (with their incendiary classic Oh Bondage Up Yours), The Rich Kids, Generation X, Sham 69, The Dead Boys and tons more, the film really captures something in that classic establishment versus angry youth way.&lt;br /&gt;DOA is more than just a mirror to the scene, it is as much part of the movement as the music itself...chaotic, claustrophobic, nasty and aimed squarely between your eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"As a document of British Punk at its most naked and powerful, D.O.A. is without equal."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;John A. Platt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lincoln Center NYC CineRock film festival&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Loud films rare music&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On y découvre, outre les live hystériques des Pistols menés par un Johnny Rotten au regard halluciné, les frémissements d'un mouvement mort-né, pris entre la fin des idéologies hippies et le cynisme consumériste des années 80.&lt;br /&gt;(..) Accompagnant le groupe de ville en ville, l'image tremblée et sale, soulignée par une bande-son impressionnante (The Clash, Sham 69, Dead Boys...), nous fait pénétrer dans l'intimité du groupe et de ses fans imbibés d'alcool. Il y a surtout cette scène dans une chambre d'hôtel, où Sid Vicious et Nancy Spungen, complètement défoncés, gisent sur le lit dans un état de délabrement qui semble annon-cer la fin tragique du couple quelques années plus tard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nathalie Dray / Les inrockuptibles, 2004&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un baptême, un 45 tours posé sur une platine, un cri d'enfant libératoire et une touche power qui enclenche «Night clubbing» d'Iggy Pop, et déjà une mort est annoncée à l'arrivée. Dans DOA, film désormais de référence en la matière et fondé essen-tiellement sur l'unique tournée des Sex Pistols aux États-Unis en 1978, Lech Kowalski pose un regard à la fois fasciné et désabusé sur le mouvement punk. Détracteurs, fans et suiveurs, tous sont conviés pour cet enterrement prématuré(…). L’excitation, la possibilité d'une alternative sont ici exaltées par des images d'adolescents revenus à la vie et par une esthétique brutale, sans concession, allergique à tout canon de beauté et d'une séduisante impureté. Le signe d'une résurrection ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Barbara Levandangeur /  Atelier Lech Kowalski -Visions du réel, 2004&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;La única gira realizada por los Sex Pistols por Estados Unidos en 1978 funciona como la alegoría del auge y decadencia del movimiento punk. Kowalski filmó ? sin autorización ? el violento y caótico viaje; el documental incluye entrevistas, material de archivo de los pioneros del movimiento punk y la banda sonora es excepcional. Los legendarios Syd Vicious y Nancy Spungen aparecen drogados y borrachos, poco antes de la desintegración del grupo y de su dramático final.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Festival FICCO Mexico, 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Un film insolente e accattivante sulla musica punk sul e fuori dal palco. Girato nel 1978, come, quando, mentre è successo, DOA è senza dubbio documento leggendario e definitivo della generazione punk, vista attraverso la caduta dei Sex Pistols durante il loro sfortunato tour negli Stati Uniti che segnò la rottura della band e la morte di Sid Vicius&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Alba Film Festival, 2005&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Obwohl es sich hauptsächlich um eine Dokumentation der Sex Pistols American Tour 1978 handelt (die einzige die sie mit Sid Vicious gemacht haben), deckt Lech Kowalskis Film D.O.A. aus den frühen 80ern auch die frühe Punk-Szene als Ganzes ab. Es gibt viel Footage erster (und hauptsächlich britischer) Punk Bands, die sehr weit von der American Tour der Pistols gedreht wurden, sowie Interviews mit anderen Figuren, die mit der frühren Punk-Szene in Verbindung gebracht werden. Die Sex Pistols kann man auf der Bühne sehen, wie sie vieles ihres klassischen, frühen Repertoires in Clubs und Konzerthallen im ganzen Süden sowie bei ihrer letzten Show in San Francisco zu ihrem Besten geben. Weitere einflussreiche Bands in diesem Film sind The Clash, The Dead Boys, The Rich Kids (mit Ex-Sex Pistol Glen Matlock), X-Ray Spex, Generation X und Sham 69. Außerdem gibt es umfassendes Interview-Footage mit Sid Vicious und seiner Freundin Nancy Spungen kurz vor ihrem gewaltsamen Tod, sowie Szenen aus dem kurzen Bestehen der gescheiterten britischen Pub Punk Band “Terry and the Idiots”. Hinzu kommen Interviews mit Menschen aus dem Publikum der Sex Pistol Shows, die aufzeigen, wie sich die Reaktion auf die Band von Enthusiasmus zu gehässiger Missbilligung entwickelt.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Frankfurt International Film Festival 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more informations:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.doc-grandecran.fr/rendez_vous_prog.php3?id_article=374"&gt;http://www.doc-grandecran.fr/rendez_vous_prog.php3?id_article=374&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mk2.com/datamk2/sitescinemas/quaideloire/quaisl.swf"&gt;http://www.mk2.com/datamk2/sitescinemas/quaideloire/quaisl.swf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-7176582204051848491?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/7176582204051848491/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=7176582204051848491' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7176582204051848491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/7176582204051848491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2007/05/june-2007.html' title='JUNE 2007'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lbou9gj5GoY/RlwEg2o1E0I/AAAAAAAAAAM/S3VyrEYOmLc/s72-c/affiche+rock%27n%27docs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-6661075428976225956</id><published>2007-03-14T09:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-14T13:17:41.596-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MARCH 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lech Kowalski will be guest lecturer of a master class series on author documentaries at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam in March 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entitled Masterclass Author’s Documentary the series of master classes present experienced filmmakers in dialogue with young talents to go in depth on filmic form and signature of a filmmaker. Concepts, camera directing and editing will each be addressed through exercises as well as discussion and analysis of exceptional documentaries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more information at  &lt;a href="http://weblogs.vpro.nl/shadowdoc"&gt;http://weblogs.vpro.nl/shadowdoc &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or &lt;a href="http://http//weblogs.vpro.nl/shadowdoc/masters?sd=LechKowalski"&gt;http://weblogs.vpro.nl/shadowdoc/masters?sd=LechKowalski&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://weblogs.vpro.nl/shadowdoc"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-6661075428976225956?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/6661075428976225956/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=6661075428976225956' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/6661075428976225956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/6661075428976225956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2007/03/lech-kowalski-will-be-guest-lecturer-of.html' title='MARCH 2007'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-117014853999674393</id><published>2007-01-30T00:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-09T11:19:24.479-08:00</updated><title type='text'>News for 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;East of Paradise   will be screening in March at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/1600/525678/barrasup_logo_ing.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/320/181182/barrasup_logo_ing.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/1600/19964/barrasup_fecha_ing.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/320/337769/barrasup_fecha_ing.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cfnavarra.es/puntodevista/pdv_web/secciones/home/home_ing.asp?i=2"&gt;More information here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; ******************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;East of Paradise will also screen in Greece in the Thessaloniki documentary festival&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/1600/650869/9doc_poster_en.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/320/616525/9doc_poster_en.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.filmfestival.gr/docfestival/uk/index.htm"&gt;More information here on the Thessaloniki Documentary film festival website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***********************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lech will also have a retrospective of his films at FICCO in Mexico city&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/1600/778838/Banner1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/320/938680/Banner1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;" class="FdoTituloTema"&gt;            &lt;span class="Titulo1Gde"&gt; FEBRUARY 21 - MARCH 4, 2007 &lt;/span&gt;           &lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;            Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival (FICCO) was established on February 2004 by a Cinemex initiative, assuring itself as the most important cinematographic event of our country. With the solid commitment of promoting the best world cinematography in our city and the objective of offering an alterantive window to our guests, FICCO is an outstanding venue that celebrates creators and spectators, adding itself to the big international festivals, leaving proof that cinematographic art is still alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ficco.com.mx/indexi.php"&gt;more information here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.filmfestival.gr/docfestival/uk/index.htm"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-117014853999674393?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/117014853999674393/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=117014853999674393' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/117014853999674393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/117014853999674393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2007/01/news-for-2007.html' title='News for 2007'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-116488404268084181</id><published>2006-11-30T02:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-14T13:18:15.805-08:00</updated><title type='text'>DECEMBER 2006 News</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/1600/178354/EOPgringostreetNY.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/400/590170/EOPgringostreetNY.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;In december, in Paris, France&lt;br /&gt;EAST OF PARADISE/ A L'EST DU PARADIS&lt;br /&gt;at the Musée du Jeu de Paume&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;this screening is part of the RENCONTRES PARIS BERLIN&lt;br /&gt;and will be held on December 2nd at 4 PM&lt;br /&gt;more info at :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Chttp://art-action.org%3Ehttp://art-action.org"&gt; http://art-action.org  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will  be one additional screening at the Musee du jeu de Paume&lt;br /&gt;on December 16 th more info at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jeudepaume.org/"&gt;http://www.jeudepaume.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/1600/2802/Untitled-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/320/320553/Untitled-2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In December in Bratislava, Slovak Republic&lt;br /&gt;EAST OF PARADISE&lt;br /&gt;is part of the OFF THE MAINSTREAM program&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/1600/129233/undergroundny.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/400/947036/undergroundny.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;East of Paradise is a new documentary film of one of the most significant contemporary representatives of the New York, so-called underground film - Lech Kowalski.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;There are two main lines: one is Kowalski’s own memories of the birth of the punk rock scene in New York and often even surreal situations connected with them. In the hectically cut archive materials there appear various personalities of the underground and avant-garde art of the 70s. It is a kind of introductory collage to rebellion, psychedelic visions and attempts of artistic expression by alternative means. The second line is a contrast to this: memories of the director’s mother Maria Werla Kowalski, who really openly tells a dramatic story from the Soviet communistic gulag, where she was deported from Krakow after the “liberation” of Poland by the Red Army in 1945. The strong authenticity, natural speech and mimics of Mrs. Kowalska in relatively static views create an extraordinarily tense atmosphere and a strange tension at the same time in connection with the New York line.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Extract from the catalogue]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More info at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://http//www.iffbratislava.sk/2006/index.php?id=84&amp;amp;fid=52"&gt;http://www.iffbratislava.sk/2006/index.php?id=84&amp;amp;fid=52&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On December 12,  Lech Kowalski will be in Bruxelles, Belgium&lt;br /&gt;at  BEURS&lt;br /&gt;for&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;DOCHOUSE: LECH KOWALSKI - "East of Paradise"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the program is  including a master class at  3 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;and a screening of the film  at 8 h 30 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;both at BEURS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/1600/784531/doc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7743/3929/400/797234/doc.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more info at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.beursschouwburg.be/detail.php?la=fr&amp;amp;c=7&amp;amp;id=551&amp;amp;date=1165878000"&gt;http://www.beursschouwburg.be/detail.php?la=fr&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;c=7&amp;amp;id=551&amp;amp;date=1165878000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-116488404268084181?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/116488404268084181/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=116488404268084181' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/116488404268084181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/116488404268084181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2006/11/december-news.html' title='DECEMBER 2006 News'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-116178765985549395</id><published>2006-10-25T07:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-25T13:35:47.320-07:00</updated><title type='text'>About this blog</title><content type='html'>This blog will be an update of the events related to Lech Kowalski’s films.&lt;br /&gt;We will announce festivals screenings, interviews, master classes, new film projects and whatever else is going on. Occasionally Lech will write in the blog about his projects and updates on new releases and other activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/photo1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/photo2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming soon is a retrospective of Lech Kowalski’s films in Frankfurt, Germany, you can find additional information at &lt;a href="http://www.ifff.de"&gt;http://www.ifff.de &lt;/a&gt; for screenings and dates when Lech will attend for question and answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/photo3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*********************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/400/photo4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In November in France in the magazine BREF, related to&lt;br /&gt;« The month of documentary » will be published an interview &lt;br /&gt;with Lech by Rodolphe Olcese.&lt;br /&gt;For more information :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brefmagazine.com/"&gt;http://www.brefmagazine.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***********************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/photo5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/photo6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On  November 15, between 4 and 5 pm on Radio France Culture (93.5 FM in Paris) you could listen to an interview with Lech. It is part of a series of shows called&lt;br /&gt;“L’autre Amérique”, the program with Lech is called :&lt;br /&gt;“LE PUNK NEW YORKAIS AU TOURNANT DES ANNEES 80 ».&lt;br /&gt;Lech is talking about his experiences making his music films and being part of that scene in NYC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You could also podcast the show or download it, more info at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/sur_docks/fiche.php?diffusion_id=46487&amp;pg=avenir" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/sur_docks/fiche.php?diffusion_id=46487&amp;pg=avenir&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/photo7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/photo8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/photo9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***************************************************************************************&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo10.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/400/photo10.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also in November, at the Northern Lights film festival in the UK, you can see « The Boot Factory », more information on :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nlff.co.uk/2006/retrospective/punk/the_boot_factory.php" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.nlff.co.uk/2006/retrospective/punk/the_boot_factory.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/photo11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/photo12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/400/photo12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While screening several films at an underground film festival in Krakow, Poland Lech met a Polish punk-rocker turned-entrepreneur Lukasz Siska. Lukasz ran the Cockney Underground Boot Factory that produced footwear made by some of the most hardened punks on the Polish scene. This intriguing film is the story of that factory and the people who work in it. Beautifully shot, you’ll be completely immersed in this splendid story of real life.&lt;br /&gt;The Northern lights film festival&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-116178765985549395?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/116178765985549395/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=116178765985549395' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/116178765985549395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/116178765985549395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2006/10/about-this-blog.html' title='About this blog'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35341061.post-115971000503353209</id><published>2006-10-01T06:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-01T07:18:34.416-07:00</updated><title type='text'>EXTINKT BLOG COMING SOON !!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/1600/01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7743/3929/320/01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EXTINKT BLOG OF LECH KOWALSKI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.extinkt.com"&gt;http://www.extinkt.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/35341061-115971000503353209?l=lechkowalski.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/feeds/115971000503353209/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35341061&amp;postID=115971000503353209' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/115971000503353209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/35341061/posts/default/115971000503353209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lechkowalski.blogspot.com/2006/10/extinkt-blog-coming-soon.html' title='EXTINKT BLOG COMING SOON !!!'/><author><name>EXTINKT</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006317413940161167</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.extinkt.com/blog/lkpos1b&amp;w.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
