PFI: My Dinner With Andrzej

Ten years on from Andrzej Żuławski’s death, Daniel Bird recounts his experience of living in Warsaw during the last year of the director’s life - adapting Cosmos into English (Żuławski's film of Witold Gombrowicz’s final novel); restoring On the Silver Globe (the director’s cursed science fiction epic), and several projects that remain unfilmed…

Illustrated with photos, audio and video, the event will also paint a picture of the director’s closest collaborators – the composer Andrzej Korzyński, the cinematographer Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz, the costume designer Magdalena Tesławska, and the poster artist Barbara Baranowska - who was also Żuławski's first wife.

Andrzej Żuławski was born in Ukraine, studied political science in Paris and philosophy in Warsaw, before working as an assistant to Andrzej Wajda. His films include The Third Part of the Night and L’Important c’est d’aimer. He’s most famous for directing Possession, currently being remade in Hollywood with Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner.

Daniel Bird was born in Stoke-on-Trent. After completing a Master’s in philosophy at Warwick University, he was awarded a scholarship to study in Warsaw. Besides working with Żuławski, he co-founded a non-profit association, Friends of Walerian Borowczyk, and directs archive based projects in the South Caucasus, Central Asia and Ukraine.

This screening is part of Pan-Pan's weekly PFI programme.