Polish Cultural Institute
and
Anthology Film Archives
present

PORNOGRAPHY (PORNOGRAFIA)

by Jan Jakub Kolski
2003, 115 minutes. In Polish with English subtitles.

Thursday, October 28 & Saturday, October 30 at 9:00
Friday, October 29 & Sunday, October 31 at 7:00

Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
New York

Set in Nazi-occupied Poland, PORNOGRAPHY focuses on two middle-aged men: Frederic, a theater and film director, and Witold, a writer who serves as a wry commentator. The two journey out to the country estate of
Hippolyte, a friend of Witold marginally involved in the resistance. There they encounter German soldiers and partisans, young lovers and even younger murderers, patriots and Catholics. Frederic will reveal an uncanny ability to hear clearly even distant and delicate sounds. Director Jan Jakub Kolski effectively finds the cinematic means to capture Gombrowicz's abrupt changes of mood and tone and almost surreal juxtapositions, while anchoring the story in a very concrete time and place.