Boro, L'île D'amour: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk

Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michał Oleszczyk

Berghahn Books, 2015 - Performing Arts - 198 pages

There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and "escape artist" if there ever was one. This collection serves as an introduction and a guide to Borowczyk's complex and ambiguous body of work, including panoramic views of the director's output, focused studies of particular movies, and more personal, impressionistic pieces. Taken together, these contributions comprise a wide-ranging survey that is markedly experimental in character, allowing scholars to gain insight into previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk's oeuvre.

About the author

Kamila Kuc is a multimedia artist, curator and writer. Her films have screened in venues and at film festivals nationally and internationally: Whitechapel Gallery, British Film Institute, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Anthology Film Archives New York, Ann Arbor Film Festival. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on experimental media, including Visions of Avant-Garde Film (Indiana University Press) and the co-founder, with Sam Jury, of Disasters of Peace - a creative initiative that encompasses research, writing, making and curating. Kuba Mikurda is a filmmaker and film scholar. He teaches at the Film School in Łódź where he directed a feature documentary Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018) for HBO Europe. Michał Oleszczyk is a film critic, translator and script consultant based in Warsaw. He teaches film studies at "Artes Liberales" Department at University of Warsaw, as well as script development at Warsaw Film School. He contributes to "Cineaste" and RogerEbert.com

Bibliographic information

• Title: Boro, L'île D'amour: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk; Berghahn on film; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Editors: Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michał Oleszczyk
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2015
• ISBN: 1782387013, 9781782387015
• Length: 198 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / Regional & National; Performing Arts / Individual Director