
It is a film about Dariusz
Milinski, about whom journalists and critics express their opinions
using such words as: ‘an amazing, rebellious, charismatic artist,
painter, poet, actor, animateur, provocateur and probably a
philosopher’. No standard biographical note is able to render the
meanders of the life and the rich personality of the artist, born in
Cieplice in 1957. It will not show the dimensions of cultural terrain
covered by Miliński in his artistic wanderings. His works are compared
with the paintings of Bosch and Bruegel, linked with famous names of
Polish contemporary art.
Unnecessarily - as Miliński
is incomparable. In contrast to creators rooted in a specific part of
“space-time”, Dariusz Milinski was an outlaw, an outsider, “a star”
and a madman depending which worlds he inhabited, roamed, dropped in
or lounged about satiated. He constantly balanced between types of
culture, sometimes also between artistic conventions, searching for
his identity in the hybrid-like, often discontinuous process of
creation. However, Milinski is always a master of visual metaphor,
using his incredible imagination to create an iconosphere to contrast
with pushy everyday reality.
In this “nutty” world the
only way for an artist to exist is to turn to art as part of his being
– like “beautiful food” which makes it possible to survive and save
oneself, one’s family, friends, the impoverished, oversensitive and
sufferers. Milinski founded a group “Plawna 9”, which, like a troupe
of medieval ’goliards’, presents in its shows a shamefully hidden fact
of a fool triumphing over a wise man; fills the audience with longing
for the transparency and definiteness of the past, for the naturalness
of aiding the needy and the right of each man to be weak.
Andrzej Czulda made a
masterly movie. The film visualises the fact that also our world
consists of two orders, mythological- magical and rational, which
co-exist and sometimes overlap. The film about good-bad feelings, a
cool-warm sky, puppets turned human and beautiful-ugly people pinning
up moons, suns and sometimes hearts. It is also about art that is a
metaphor of human fate. It seems one can describe the sense and
philosophy of life using pensive and fragile images, unexpected
boorishness of a context, playful jokes and the seriousness of
formalistic pompousness. One can.
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DIRECTED BY
ANDRZEJ B.CZULDA
WRITTEN
ANDRZEJ B.CZULDA, KRYSTYNA PIATKOWSKA
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
ROMAN PIOTROWSKI
SOUND
BOGUMILA KLOPOTOWSKA
MUSIC
AGIM DŻELJILJI
EDITING
ZBIGNIEW NICINSKI
PRODUCTION MANAGER
JOANNA LEPIANKA
CAST:
DARIUSZ MILINSKI, Grupa Plastyczno-Teatralna PŁAWNA 9,
GRZEGORZ SZYMCZYK, MICHAL BAJSAROWICZ, KRZYSZTOF CYMON, ELWIRA LASKOWSKA,
MALGORZATA LEMISZEWSKA, MARZENA MILINSKA, FILIP MILINSKI, IGOR MILINSKI,
KACPER MILINSKI, MAKSYMILIAN MILINSKI, ZBIGNIEW ROSZKOWSKI, JOANNA SERENDA,
MICHAL STASZKOWIAN, LESZEK WISNIEWSKI, ROZA WOJCIK, STANISLAW BOROWSKI
PRODUCTION
EDUCATIONAL FILM STUDIO IN LODZ
POLISH TELEVISION INC. TV POLONIA
© 2001 WFOiPE – TVP S.A. TV POLONIA ZAiKS
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