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Kazimierz Karabasz (; May 6, 1930 in
Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...
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– August 11, 2018) was a Polish
documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
maker.Kazimierz Karabasz nie żyje. Uznawany za twórcę polskiej szkoły dokumentu reżyser miał 88 lat
A graduate of the
Łódź Film School The Leon Schiller National Film School ( pl, Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. Leona Schillera) is a Polish academy for future actors, directors, photographers, camera operators and television staff. It was founded o ...
in 1956, he also taught the documentary programme there for many years. Although his work is now rarely seen, his most famous film, a ten-minute documentary short entitled ''Muzykanci'' / ''The Musicians'', is an extra on the
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edition of
Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Kieślowski (; 27 June 1941 – 13 March 1996) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for ''Dekalog'' (1989), ''The Double Life of Veronique'' (1991), and the ''Three Colours'' trilogy (1993 –1994) ...
's film ''
The Double Life of Véronique ''The Double Life of Veronique'' (french: La double vie de Véronique, pl, Podwójne życie Weroniki) is a 1991 drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Irène Jacob. Written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the film expl ...
''. Kieślowski, whom Karabasz mentored, chose this as one of his personal all-time top ten films in a 1992 poll conducted by the film magazine ''Sight & Sound''. Karabasz is known in Poland for influencing generations of documentary filmmakers to come with his approach to filmmaking called "school of Karabasz" (Polish: szkoła Karabasza). The style focuses of regular people's lives and requires a perspective of an observer with zero impact on the observed object. ''Muzykanci'' is considered a textbook example of "Karabasz school". The method was especially popular in the sixties and associated with the œuvre of Władysław Ślesicki,
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and
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among others.


Filmography

* ''Jak co dzień'' / ''As Every Day'' (1955) * ''Gdzie diabeł mówi dobranoc'' / ''Where the Devil Says Goodnight'' (1957) * ''Ludzie z pustego obszaru'' / ''People From an Empty Zone'' (1957) * ''Z Powiśla'' / ''From Powiśle'' (1958) * ''Dzień bez słonca'' / ''A Day Without the Sun'' (1959) * ''Trochę inny świat'' / ''A Slightly Different World'' (1959) * ''Ludzie w drodze'' / ''
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'' (1960) * ''Muzykanci'' / ''The Musicians'' (1960) * ''Węzeł'' / ''The Junction'' (1961) * ''Pierwszy krok'' / ''The First Step'' (1962) * ''Tu gdzie żyjemy'' / ''Here, Where We Live'' (1962) * ''Jubileusz'' / ''The Anniversary'' (1962) * ''Ptaki'' / ''Birds'' (1963) * ''W klubie'' / ''In the Club'' (1963) * ''Urodzeni w roku 1944'' / ''Born in 1944'' (1964) * ''Na progu'' / ''At the threshold'' (1965) * ''Rok Franka W.'' / ''The Year of Frank W'' (1967) * ''Sobota'' / ''Saturday'' (1969) * ''Przypis'' / ''Footnote'' (1970) * ''Zgodnie z rozkazem'' / ''Following Orders'' (1970) * ''Sierpień – zapis kronikalny'' / ''August – A Chronicle'' (1971) * ''Przed...'' / ''Before...'' (1972) * ''Krystyna M.'' (1973) * ''Punkt widzenia'' / ''Point of View'' (1974) * ''Pryzmat'' / ''Prism'' (1976) * ''Lato w Żabnie'' / ''Summer in Żabno'' (1977) * ''We Dwoje'' / ''The Two of Us'' (1977) * ''Przenikanie'' / ''Assimilating'' (1978) * ''Dialog'' / ''Dialogue'' (1979) * ''Wędrujący cień'' / ''A Wandering Shadow'' (1979) * ''Próba materii'' / ''Material Test'' (1981) * ''Cień juz niedaleko'' / ''A Looming Shadow'' (1985) * ''Pamięć'' / ''Memory'' (1985) * ''Widok z huty'' / ''A View From the Steelworks'' (1990) * ''Na przykład / ulica Grzybowska 9'' – ''9 Grzybowska Street, for example'' (1991) * ''Okruchy'' / ''Crumbs'' (1994) * ''Portret w kropli'' / ''A Portrait in a Drop'' (1997) * ''O świcie i przed zmierzchem'' / ''At Sunrise and Before Dusk'' (1999) * ''W pierwszej fazie lotu'' / ''In the First Phase of Flight'' (2001) * ''Czas podwójny'' / ''Double Time'' (2001) * ''Spotkania'' / ''Meetings'' (2004) * ''Co w bagażu?'' / ''What's in Storage'' (2008)


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Internetowa Baza Filmu Polskiego
( pl) 1930 births 2018 deaths Polish film directors Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin Film people from Bydgoszcz Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1944–1989) Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis {{Poland-film-director-stub