𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗: "Tower. A Bright Day", 2017.dir. Jagoda Szelc

🇬🇧 𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗: “Tower. A Bright Day”, 2017, dir. Jagoda Szelc, drama, mystery, Poland, 106 min. 🎥 Mula lives with her family in the country. Just before her daughter’s First Holy Communion, Mula’s long lost sister pays them a visit. The family believes in reconciliation, but Mula has her reasons to feel afraid of Kaja. ℹ️ Lecture: PhD Joanna Sarbiewska. Works at the Institute of Cultural Research at the University of Gdańsk. Her academic interests include philosophy of mysticism, culture, film and media in a phenomenological and postsecular perspective. Recent research deals with the deconstruction as a new phenomenology, taken in the context of re-reading of the kenosis event in a mystical, apophatic approach, and its application in a transrational ontology and technological culture. She has authored the book „Ontologia i estetyka filmowych obrazów Wernera Herzoga” (“Ontology and aesthetics of Werner Herzog’s film images”) and has published many academic articles. An author of the film “Oglądy (Views), based on the novel Pokój (The Room)” by Jean-Paul Sartre. She used to be a president of Gdańsk department of Polish Society of Film and Media Studies and a vice-president of Pomeranian Philosophical and Theological Society. A speaker at international conferences (organized, among others, by European Academy of Religion, Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, International Federation of Philosophical Societies, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies). Movie with English subtitles. Free entry. ▶ Cinematic Poland is an initiative of the Andrzej Wajda Film Center of the University of Gdansk, Medical University of Gdansk and the International Office of the University of Gdańsk, an unit established to cooperate with the foreign part of the academic community. One of its tasks is to familiarize foreigners with Polish culture, including the history of Polish cinematography. Thanks to Cinematic Poland, foreign students and employees will have the opportunity to watch both classic films and contemporary productions.