Krzysztof Kieślowski Archive (Sokołowsko, Poland)
Krzysztof Kieślowski Archive (Sokołowsko, Poland)
The Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Archive is a project run by the In Situ Foundation of Contemporary Art, which aims to acquire, digitize, protect and disseminate archival resources related to the work of one of the most outstanding European directors.
The archive could not have been created without the substantive help and trust that Maria Kieślowska gave to the Foundation, transferring materials from the family archive. It is on the basis of them in Sokołowsko, the Foundation’s headquarters, that this lively archive of memory and legacy after the director was created and developed – a laboratory of meetings with cinema and the creative attitude of the author of the trilogy THREE COLOURS.
The intention of the Foundation is to create the only place in the world and on the Internet that comprehensively collects, stores, researches and disseminates archives related to Krzysztof Kieślowski. Places where, in a creative and deep way, during workshops, residences and conferences, you can bend over the importance and influence of the still current voice in the European cinema that Kieślowski had.
So far, they have made available on the website www.kieslowski.com.pl part of the collection of the family archive. Ultimately, the plan is to provide scenarios, posters, correspondence, souvenirs, drawings, reviews and other objects.
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Archive of Works is located in Sokołowsko. He lived here, with his parents and sister, from 1951 to 1957. In Sokołowsko, there was already a cinema that influenced the life of the future director. In the village, which has a long spa tradition in the treatment of lung diseases, Roman Kieślowski – the director’s father, was treated for tuberculosis. Kieślowski returned to his memoirs in the documentary “X-ray”.
Throughout the year in the Health Cinema, run by the In Situ Foundation of Contemporary Art, you can watch productions of artistic Polish and international cinema. However, this Sokolowsko Film Festival Hommage à Kieślowski, ATKK’s flagship program event, attracts enthusiasts seeking cinema, exceptional guests and a faithful audience.