A Film about Polish Glam Rock at BERLIN GLOBAL
Regular: 5 euros
Reduced: 3 euros
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Berlin-Room, Room 5, 1st floor | Admission from 6 pm
2h
Set in Poland’s underground queer scene in the 1970s and 1980s, “The Rise and Fall of Zygmunt Blask” tells the story of glam rock superstar Zygmunt Blask. The fictional character was created by Polish musician Jemek Jemowit, who released his rock opera “Legenda Zygmunt Blask” in 2021. In the film by Krzysztof Honowski and Jemek Jemowit, artists Ewa Maria Slaska and Leon Dziemaszkiewicz trace the life of the pop icon, whose rise and fall exemplifies many fleeting existences between censorship, self-determination, emigration and exile.
Based on their personal experiences and memories, Slaska and Dziemaszkiewicz describe an alternative European history of the East and West. Part musical, part documentary, part queer-feminist agitprop, the film combines collages of home videos from communist Poland with interviews and staged re-enactments shot in Berlin and Zielona Góra.
“The Rise and Fall of Zygmunt Blask” is an unsparing tribute to hard-fought battles for the right to self-determination, which have been waged over the years in former Soviet countries and are being fought today with renewed vigour.
The event is part of the programme accompanying the Open Space “Liberty, Equality, Solidarność” by Ewa Maria Slaska, Anna Krenz and Jemek Jemowit.
Programme
- 6:30 pm | Tape listening session of the studio album “Legenda Zygmunta Blask” by Jemek Jemowit. Released in 2021, the music raises questions about the socio-political situation in the country under the Law and Justice government (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS), in particular the difficult situation faced by the LGBTIQ community.
- 7 pm | Premiere screening of the film “The Rise and Fall of Zygmunt Blask”. The film will be shown in Polish, German and English with English subtitles.
- 7:35 pm | Q&A with the filmmakers and actors, moderated by Joanna Ratajczak. The discussion will be held in German with simultaneous English interpretation.
Information
“The Rise and Fall of Zygmunt Blask” (2021-24) is a film by Krzysztof Honowski and Jemek Jemowit, with Ewa Maria Slaska, Leon Krzysztof Dziemaszkiewicz, Roland Owsnitzki and Jemek Jemowit. The film received funding from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe as part of the Oder – Partnership.
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