THE BEKSIŃSKIS. A Sound and Picture Album
Marcin Borchardt
2017, 1 h 20 minThe story of an outstanding Polish painter, Zdzisław Beksiński, and his complicated relationship with his son, Tomek, an extremely popular music journalist who suffered from depression and made numerous attempts to commit suicide. The film is a startling, sometimes shocking, sometimes moving family drama documentary which has been painstakingly reconstructed using audio recordings, film and photographs from the Beksińskis’ private archive, material that has never been made public in this form before.
Marcin Borchardt
Screen writer, director and film expert. He is a director of documentary films, commercials, video clips and television programmes. He teaches short fiction film aesthetics at the Film School in Gdynia, avant-garde and experimental cinema as well as contemporary documentary filmmaking at the University of Gdańsk. His monograph, The Avant-Garde Music of the Late Twentieth Century. A Beginners’ Guide, was published in 2014.
2008: Andrzej Wajda Is Watching „Ashes and Diamonds”
2008: Chronicle 32
2009: Janusz Morgenstern Is Watching „Goodbye, Till Tomorrow…”
2010: Jerzy Skolimowski Is Watching „Identification Marks: None”
2013: Open Gallery. Metal Sculptures
2014: Resonances I
2014: Stories over the Borders
2016: Resonances II
2017: THE BEKSIŃSKIS. A Sound and Picture Album
written by Marcin Borchardt
edited by Dominik Jagodziński
production Darek Dikti Biuro pomysłów
producer Darek Dikti
co-produced by Telewizja Polska SA
co-financed by Polish Film Institute, Gdyński Fundusz Filmowy
