KFF TALKS: What Do Images Do to Us?
Photo: M. Zygmunt
Beyond the screenings, Michal Kosakowski also took part in the official KFF TALKS programme, participating in the panel discussion "What Do Images Do to Us?", held in the beautiful Potocki Palace on Kraków's Main Market Square.
The official text for the Panel discussion:
The German-Austrian film essay ‘Holofiction’ will serve as a starting point for a discussion on how cinema influences our perception of reality, how — consciously or unconsciously — it shapes our view of the world, and how it manipulates us. Michał Kosakowski’s documentary, composed of several thousand fragments of feature films, displays (using only images, without a single word of commentary) repetitive patterns of the Holocaust depiction on screen, which have contributed to the consolidation of collective perceptions on the subject. Today, we are at a completely different juncture, for we are shaped not only by cinematic fiction or conventions but also by digitally generated images that mimic reality.
How will this affect our perception of cinema and the responsibility of filmmakers? What does this technological and cultural revolution mean for feature film makers, and what for documentary filmmakers?
A discussion with the participation of Michal Kosakowski (‘Holofiction’), film scholar Dr. Bartosz Kwieciński and Ola Salwa, a film critic.
Under the patronage of FIPRESCI, In Polish only, Free admission.
