With a career spanning over fifty years, photographer Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) has left an impressive legacy, housed at the International Center of Photography in New York (ICP). While relatively few of his photographs were known until recently, the ICP has digitalised much of his estate in 2013, creating a whole website dedicated to his work.…
| 11/02/2019
Pilecki’s a Polish film about an undoubted World War II hero: Witold Pilecki (1901-1948), a member of the Polish resistance, who allowed himself to be arrested and sent to Auschwitz, from where he could escape again, providing one of the first accounts of Nazi atrocities in the concentration camps. Truly exceptional, it’s hardly any wonder…
| 09/02/2019
AWARD-WINNING EXTRAORDINARY ANIMATED MEMOIR ‘ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE’ TO OPEN 17TH KINOTEKA POLISH FILM FESTIVAL IN LONDON WITH SPECIAL INTRODUCTION FROM ACCLAIMED JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR VICTORIA BRITTAIN “Rarely less than spectacular” The Hollywood Reporter on ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE Thursday 31 January 2019 – KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival in London is delighted…
| 08/02/2019
This real story, researched by historian Dermot Turing, was a revelation. Turing provided an informed and engaging presentation which deftly over-turned previous myths of how the Enigma was broken. His opening remarks elicited loud gasps from the packed audience. For as early as 1932, Turing revealed, Polish mathematicians and engineers had already cracked Enigma codes.…
| 23/01/2019
‘Jump My Bones’ is The Saturday Tea’s second single from the soon to be released album Quicksilver Dreams. The lyrics are sung in English and with lines like ‘I think I’m gonna die/ We always wave goodbye/ I think I’m gonna try and I dunno why’, it seems to be about the break-up of a…
| 17/01/2019
An unassuming little book from the outside, Old Farts opens up a fantastic world at the inside. Author Sorina Vazelina (Sorina Vasilescu), a graphic storyteller from Romania, has filled the pages with short stories in comic form that talk about aging – candidly self-aware that these thoughts come from someone in their early 30s. The bookconsists…
| 14/01/2019
Women fighting for Polish independence – Video 6′ Polish women fought for Poland’s independence including in the battle of Monte Cassino which was won by the Allies in 1944. Find out more about brave Polish women fighting for Polish independence throughout history. Poland’s underground state – 6’ The Polish Underground State (Polish: Polskie Państwo…
| 31/12/2018
Here’s the thing. Imagine living in a society where self-expression is strictly censored. When you go to the cinema, in the images and stories you see, people are most valued as cogs in the state machine. Imagine also that you’re a documentary film-maker, passionate about revealing the lived experience of people in their day to day…
| 21/12/2018
Instead of the solo singer-songwriter I’d been expecting, a four-piece band took the stage and performed twelve songs in just over an hour. They were all sung in English, and all but one of them were originals with half being from their new album ‘All I Know’. The band comprises: Tomáš Maček a.k.a. Thom Artway…
| 18/12/2018
In a memorable production, Xameleon Theatre recently brought Mikhail Bulgakov’s complex novel A Dog’s Heart to the stage at Canada Water Theatre. Performed in its original language with English subtitles, the play was aimed at Russian and English speakers alike, bringing a piece of Russian culture to a London audience. Based in Canada Water Library,…
| 10/12/2018