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Kazimierz Karabasz

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
2

Gender
Male

Birthday
May 6, 1930 (96 years old)

Place of Birth
Bydgoszcz, Poland

Kazimierz Karabasz

Biography

Kazimierz Karabasz (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʑ kaˈrabaʂ]; May 6, 1930 in Bydgoszcz, Poland – August 11, 2018) was a Polish documentary filmmaker. A graduate of the Łódź Film School in 1956, he also taught the documentary programme there for many years.

Although his work is now rarely seen, his most famous film, a ten-minute documentary short entitled Muzykanci / The Musicians, is an extra on the Criterion Collection edition of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film The Double Life of Véronique. Kieślowski, whom Karabasz mentored, chose this as one of his personal all-time top ten films in a 1992 poll conducted by the film magazine Sight & Sound.

Karabasz is known in Poland for influencing generations of documentary filmmakers to come with his approach to filmmaking called "school of Karabasz" (Polish: szkoła Karabasza). The style focuses of regular people's lives and requires a perspective of an observer with zero impact on the observed object. Muzykanci is considered a textbook example of "Karabasz school". The method was especially popular in the sixties and associated with the œuvre of Władysław Ślesicki, Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki, Krystyna Gryczełowska and Danuta Halladin among others.

Known For

Directing

2008Co w bagażu?...Director
2004Encounters...Director
1999At Dawn and Before Dusk...Director
1997Portrait in a Drop of Water...Director
1991For Example, 9 Grzybowska Street...Director
1985Remembrance...Director
1981Material Test...Director
1977Summer in Zabno...Director
1977Two of Us...Director
1974Punkt widzenia...Director
1973Krystyna M. Portrait Sketches...Director
1971Sierpień - zapis kronikalny...Director
1968A Year in the Life of Franek W....Director
1965On the Threshold...Director
1963Birds...Director
1962First Step...Director
1962Where We Live...Director
1961Railway Junction...Director
1960People on the Road...Director
1960The Musicians...Director
1960A Bit Different World...Director
1959A Day Without Sunshine...Director
1958From Powisle...Director
1957People of the Vacant Area...Director
1956Where the Devil Says Goodnight...Director
1955Day In, Day Out...Director

Writing

2008Co w bagażu?...Screenplay
1991For Example, 9 Grzybowska Street...Screenplay
1985Remembrance...Writer
1981Material Test...Screenplay
1977Summer in Zabno...Writer
1977Two of Us...Writer
1974Punkt widzenia...Writer
1971Sierpień - zapis kronikalny...Screenplay
1968A Year in the Life of Franek W....Screenplay
1963Birds...Screenplay
1962Where We Live...Writer
1960People on the Road...Writer
1960The Musicians...Writer
1960A Bit Different World...Writer
1958From Powisle...Screenplay
1957People of the Vacant Area...Screenplay
1956Where the Devil Says Goodnight...Screenplay
1955Day In, Day Out...Writer

Crew

2008Co w bagażu?...Cinematography
1971Pajace...Thanks

Art

1973Elżbieta K...Supervising Art Director
1969Marta...Supervising Art Director
1968Adopcja...Supervising Art Director

Acting

2016The Intensity of the Gazeas Self
2006Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowskias Self