1991-2000BooksKrzysztof KieslowskiUnited Kingdom

Krzysztof Kieslowski – Kieslowski On Kieslowski (1993)

Kieslowski on Kieslowski
Edited by Danusia Stock
Published by Faber and Faber, 1993 (268p.)
Quote:
From Danusia Stok on the genesis of the book:
This book is largely based on interviews recorded with Kieslowski in Paris in December 1991 and May 1992 when he was working on the scripts of the triptych Three Colours. A third set of interviews, covering the triptych, was recorded in Paris in the summer of 1993 once Three Colours had been shot.
Excerpts from Kieslowski’s reflections written for the monthly cultural magazine Du (Zurich, Switzerland) have been worked into the text. The passages are my own direct translation of Kieslowski’s original words.
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From chapter 2:
When I was still at film school, my friends and I often played a game which was very simple but required integrity. On the way to school in the morning, we had to collect points. If you saw someone without an arm you got one point, without two arms two points, without a leg two points, without two legs three points,without arms or legs, a trunk that is, ten points, and so on. A blind person was five points. It was a great game. Then, at school we’d meet at about ten in the morning for breakfast and see who had won. We’d usually all get about ten or twelve points, on average. If anyone got fifteen, he was almost sure to have won that day. That shows you how many people there were in Lodz who didn’t have arms or legs or who were mere trunks without both arms and legs. This was a result of the extremely backward, ancient textile industry there, where people were forever having limbs torn off. It was also the result of very narrow streets where trams went right up next to the buildings. You just had to take one inadvertant step and you’d find yourself under a tram. Anyway, that’s the sort of town it was. Horrifying yet at the same time fascinating because of this.

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