Abstract
Film documentaries: Energia [Energy] by Władysław Ślesicki and Czas przemiany [The Time of Transformation] by Andrzej Piekutowski are film examples of changing perspectives in Polish documentary film of the 1960s. The creators undertook the themes known from the socialist realism cinema, such as industrialization and the value of human labour, but they did so in the poetics of authorial cinema, creating films with a deeper, symbolic message and in a lyrical atmosphere.
Highlights
Film documentaries: Energia [Energy] by Władysław Ślesicki and Czas przemiany [The Time of Transformation] by Andrzej Piekutowski are film examples of changing perspectives in Polish documentary film of the s
Its place was briefly taken by new proposals from the Polish cinema of facts, as it turned out later, definitely more innovative and much more mature, and their value was confirmed by numerous awards received at international film festivals
There were many new, extremely talented authors such as: Władysław Ślesicki, Kazimierz Karabasz, Bohdan Kosiński, Jarosław and Andrzej Brzozowski, Danuta Halladin, Janusz Majewski or Jerzy Bossak, who was recognized as the mentor of the school, but the works appearing in following years clearly indicated that the environment of Polish documentary film-makers is too strongly atomized to be able to function within one artistic formation
Summary
Film documentaries: Energia [Energy] by Władysław Ślesicki and Czas przemiany [The Time of Transformation] by Andrzej Piekutowski are film examples of changing perspectives in Polish documentary film of the s.
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