Teachers who come to the film with students will receive specially prepared educational materials for additional work. The ticket price per student is a discounted PLN 15. You can sign up your class by sending an email to: akademia@againstgravity.pl
Friday, May 12 | 12:00 | Kinoteka 7
Screening of the film "And The King Said What A Fantastic Machine" by Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck, 88 min
After the screening meeting with Kaja Klimek - 30 min
Scope: cinema history and media space
About the film: The camera is a fantastic machine. Filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck (”Ten Meter Tower”, ”Jobs For All!”) once again turn their cameras directly on society, this time to explore, explain and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown to change our human behavior. From Camera Obscura and the Lumieres Brothers all the way to Youtube and the world of social media, the film chronicles how we went from capturing the image of a backyard to a multi-billion- euro content industry in just 200 years. With an exclusive use of archival and found footage, the film uses the very medium it examines, in a self-reflective yet hilarious montage.
Kaja Klimek - educator, translator, film and pop culture critic. Graduate of journalism and cultural studies at the Jagiellonian University. She gives classes on film and pop culture at the University of Warsaw and SWPS, and lectures at the Warsaw Academy of Documentary Film by the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival.
