In 1958, graduates of the Film School in Łódź – director Mieczysław Waśkowski and camera operator Adam Nurzyński – produced in cooperation with Tadeusz Kantor the short film Somnambulists. The colourful, painting-like moving image was an attempt at transferring the informel onto film stock.
References: Od awangardy do postmodernizmu, G. Dziamski (ed.), Warsaw 1996; Tadeusz Kantor. Interior imaginacji, J. Suchan, M. Świca (eds.), exhibition catalogue, Zachęta National Gallery of Art / Cricoteka, Warsaw-Cracow 2005.
(AK)
Year: 1958
Duration: 8'46''
Language: no language
Source: 35 mm
© The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź
Acquisition: deposit
Ownership form: deposit
