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#2: "Vinci" [2004]
#3: [Right] - "Vinci" [2004]
Born: 2 January 1943, Warsaw, Poland, as Edward Stefan Kłosiński.
Died: 5 January 2008, Milanówek [near Warsaw], Poland.
Education: PWSFTviT, Lódz [graduated in 1967].
Career: Worked at the Film Academy [PWSFTviT] as asst at the film department [1967-68].
Was a member of the STOFF/PSC.
Was married to actress Krystyna Janda.
Got a 'star' on the 'Walk of Fame' in Lódz in March 2009.
Appeared in the doc's 'Wiecej swiatla. Festiwal Operatorów Filmowych Camerimage '97' [1997, Piotr Lazarkiewicz; ph: Adam Sikora; 54m] & 'Krec! Jak kochasz, to krec!' [2010, Andrzej Wajda; ph: Jacek Petrycki & Pawel Edelman; 46m].
Awards: Komitetu d/s Radia i Telewizji [1978] for 'Polskie drogi'; Panama MFF [1979] for 'Spirala'; Sitges IFF 'Best Cinematography' [1991] for 'Europa'; Medina del Campo, Spain - 4° Certamen Nacional de Cortometrajes, Trofeo a la mejor fotografia [1996] for 'La muerte de Filomeno'; Bayerischer Filmpreis [2000] for 'Gloomy Sunday'; Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski [2008]; Plus Camerimage Award for the Contribution to the Art of Cinematography [2008].
Obituary:
It
is a tribute to the skills of the cinematographer Edward
Klosinski, who has died of lung cancer aged 65, that the
greatest Polish film directors - Andrzej Wajda,
Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieslowski - sought his
collaboration on their films. Wajda, for whom Klosinski
shot eight films, gave him his first job as director of
photography on 'Brzezina/The Birch Wood', when the credited
cinematographer, Zygmunt Samosiuk, left the production.
The look of the film derives from Polish art nouveau
paintings, although this bitter-sweet drama was set in
the 1930s. Driven by "censorship behind closed
doors", Wajda had turned to non-overtly political
literature for his material until 'Czlowiek
z marmuru/Man of Marble'.
This bold, no-frills political tale of a modern film student's investigation of the life of a Stakhanovite bricklayer in the 1950s has black-and-white recreations of the newsreels of the time. The chain-smoking student was played by Krystyna Janda, whom Klosinski married in 1981, the year of 'Czlowiek z zelaza/Man of Iron'. In this sequel to 'Czlowiek z marmuru/Man of Marble', Janda appeared as a dissident filmmaker, now married to the son of the worker. In a way, Wajda's uncluttered style suited Klosinski, who had a fondness for natural light. "The cinematography cannot be a wall separating the film from the viewer," he once said. "If the cinematography is so aggressive that the cinema viewer starts sighing 'how lovely', then they lose the essence of the film. I try not to stick out from behind the camera, and not to overdo special shots - from under the table, then from a bird's-eye view."
In Wajda's 'Bez znieczulenia/Rough Treatment', the shots are intentionally rough because, as the cinematographer himself said, "this was a story about difficult moments in the life of a journalist, so I did my best to make it look like a reporter's work, to make it restless, careless".
Klosinski worked for Zanussi in the 1970s on 'Illuminacja/Illumination' and 'Barwy ochronne/Camouflage', both taking place in the narrow scientific academic community, both making wider philosophical and political statements. Klosinski considered himself part of the "cinema of moral anxiety" created by the generation inspired by the films of Wajda.
"The most active period of my work," Klosinski declared, "fell in the years of the birth and peak development of the cinema of moral anxiety. I know it was needed and important, but in terms of form it is hard to view it as rich. It probably had to be that way. If the formal aspects had been more spectacular, they would have falsified the content which was the most important thing."
In 1987, Klosinski and Kieslowski teamed up for the first time for Episode 2 of 'Dekalog/Decalogue', a series of 10 one-hour television films inspired by the Ten Commandments. On the theme of "thou shalt have no other gods before me", the story tells how a young boy, encouraged by his father to calculate everything by computer, miscalculates that the ice on a lake will be thick enough to support him.
Klosinski later shot Kieslowski's penultimate film, 'Trois couleurs: Blanc/Trzy kolory: Bialy/Three Colours: White', the middle film in the trilogy based on the colors of the French flag; it is a wry black comedy set in Poland and shot in a more realistic manner than the other two more spiritual films. With its wintry landscapes, the title color permeates the film. [From obituary by Ronald Bergan in The Guardian, 22 February 2008.]
FILMS AT THE PWSFTviT | |
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1964 |
Propozycja [Jerzy Wojciech Wójcik] b&w; short/22m; c.asst; ph: Jan Hesse |
1965 |
Przygoda [Raszko Uzunow] b&w; short/5m |
1965 |
Velorio [José Luis Di Zeo] b&w; short/4m |
1965 |
Zdarzenie [Marek Piestrak] ?; short/5m |
1966 |
Dzien zwyciestwa [Marek Piestrak] b&w; short/11m |
1966 |
Niebo [Juan Manuel Torres] b&w; short/10m |
1966 |
Wygrana, przegrana/Park [Raszko Uzunow] b&w; short/8m; cph: Slawomir Idziak |
1967 |
Nocna wizyta [Jerzy Wojciech Wójcik] b&w; short/27m; c.op; ph: Ryszard Kuziemski |
1967 |
Wagary [Jacek Butrymowicz] b&w; short/23m; c.asst; ph: Slawomir Idziak |
1968 |
Czy panstwo gracie [Juan Manuel Torres] b&w; short/30m |
FILMS | |
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1969 |
Jacek Mierzejewski 1884-1925 [Jerzy Mierzejewski] c; doc/14m; cph: Mieczyslaw Lewandowski |
1970 |
Spojrzenie [Slawomir Idziak] b&w; doc/247mtr |
1970 |
Brzezina/The Birch Wood [Andrzej Wajda] c; was c.op, but finished the film after ph Zygmunt Samosiuk left the prod |
1971 |
Uciec jak najblizej/Run Counter Run [Janusz Zaorski] b&w |
1972 |
Illuminacja/Illumination [Krzysztof Zanussi] c |
1974 |
Ziemia obiecana/The Promised Land/Land of Promise [Andrzej Wajda] 35mm & 70mm/c; 179m; cph: Witold Sobocinski & Waclaw Dybowski; also 4-part tv-miniseries/204m (1975) |
1975 |
Strach [Antoni Krauze] c |
1976 |
Barwy ochronne/Camouflage [Krzysztof Zanussi] c |
1976 |
Czlowiek z marmuru/Man of Marble [Andrzej Wajda] c |
1977 |
Pokój z widokiem na morze/A Room with a View on the Sea [Janusz Zaorski] c |
1977 |
Wodzirej/Top Dog [Feliks Falk] c |
1977 |
Spirala/Spiral [Krzysztof Zanussi] c |
1978 |
Bez znieczulenia/Rough Treatment [Andrzej Wajda] c |
1979 |
Panny z Wilka/The Young Ladies of Wilko [Andrzej Wajda] c |
1979 |
Szansa/Chance [Feliks Falk] c; + co-dialogue |
1979 |
Pogoda domu niechaj bedzie z Toba... Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz [Andrzej Wajda] c; doc/19m |
1981 |
Dziecinne pytania/Childish Questions [Janusz Zaorski] c |
1981 |
Czlowiek z zelaza/Man of Iron [Andrzej Wajda] b&w-c |
1982 |
Matka królów/Mother of Kings [Janusz Zaorski] b&w; cph: Witold Adamek |
1982 |
Bella Donna [- Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein?] [Peter Keglevic] c |
1984 |
Der Bulle und das Mädchen [Peter Keglevic] c |
1985 |
Ga, ga. Chwala bohaterom [Piotr Szulkin] c |
1985 |
Kronika wypadków miłosnych/Chronicle of Love Affairs [Andrzej Wajda] c |
1986 |
Magic Sticks [Peter Keglevic] c |
1988 |
And the Violins Stopped Playing/I skrzypce przestaly grac [Alexander Ramati] c |
1989 |
Herzlich willkommen [Hark Bohm] 16mm-35bu/c |
1989 |
Der Skipper/Kill Cruise [Peter Keglevic] c |
1990 |
Zycie za zycie. Maksymilian Kolbe/Leben für Leben - Maximilian Kolbe [Krzysztof Zanussi] c |
1990 |
Europa [Lars von Trier] p/b&w-c; cph: Henning Bendtsen & Jean-Paul Meurisse; uwph: Mike Valentine |
1991 |
Kuchnia polska [Jacek Bromski] c; cph: Janusz Gauer; followed by tv-series |
1992 |
Trois couleurs: Blanc/Trzy kolory: Bialy [Krzysztof Kieslowski] c; + scrpl cons |
1995 |
Love & Hate - European Stories [seg 'Steps' dir by Olaf Olszewski] c; short/15m; seg of 5-part anthology; other ph: Anthony Dod Mantle, Hans Welin, Radoslav Vladic & Erik Poppe |
1995 |
Pestka/The Pip [Krystyna Janda] c |
1995 |
La muerte de Filomeno [Ina Lüders] c; short/12m |
1997 |
Un air si pur.../An Air So Pure [Yves Angelo] c; cph: Denis Lenoir |
1998 |
Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod/The Piano Player [Rolf Schübel] c |
1999 |
Tydzien z zycia mezczyzny/A Week in the Life of a Man [Jerzy Stuhr] c |
1999 |
Abschied - Brechts letzter Sommer/The Farewell [Jan Schütte] c |
1999 |
Zycie jako smiertelna choroba przenoszona droga plciowa/Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease [Krzysztof Zanussi] c |
2000 |
Chopin. Pragnienie milosci/Chopin: Desire for Love [Jerzy Antczak] c |
2001 |
Old Love/Späte Liebe [Jan Schütte] c; short/25m |
2001 |
Suplement/The Supplement [Krzysztof Zanussi] c |
2001 |
Gebirtig [Robert Schindel & Lukas Stepanik] c |
2002 |
Superprodukcja [Juliusz Machulski] c |
2002 |
SuperTex [- Eine Stunde im Paradies] [Jan Schütte] scope/c |
2003 |
Pogoda na jutro [Jerzy Stuhr] c |
2004 |
Vinci [Juliusz Machulski] c |
2004 |
Jaki jest z bliska [Katarzyna Maciejko-Kowalczyk] c; doc/45m |
2005 |
Persona non grata [Krzysztof Zanussi] c |
2005 |
Solidarnosc, Solidarnosc... [seg (7m) 'Sushi' dir by Juliusz Machulski, 'Czolgi' (6m) dir by Krzysztof Zanussi, 'Krótka historia jednej tablicy' (5m) dir by Feliks Falk & 'Czlowiek z nadziei' (10m) dir by Andrzej Wajda] s16/c; 13 seg; other ph: Adam Bajerski, Piotr Sliskowski, a.o. |
2005 |
Fale. Wyjazd/Waves. Day Return [Maciej Pisarek] c; short/27m |
2005 |
Wszyscy jestesmy Chrystusami/We're All Christs [Marek Koterski] c |
2006 |
Love Comes Lately [Jan Schütte] s16-35bu/c; cph: Chris Squires |
2009 |
Rewizyta/Revisited [Krzysztof Zanussi] c; ph (footage 'Barwy ochronne', 1976); ph: Dariusz Kuc |
TELEVISION | |
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1970 |
Na dobranoc [Janusz Zaorski] tvm/b&w/25m |
1971 |
Dekameron 40 czyli cudowne przytrafienie pewnego nieboszczyka [Jan Budkiewicz] tvm/28m |
1971 |
Mateo Falcone [Jan Budkiewicz] tvm/26m; + co-scrpl |
1971 |
Meta/The Pad [Antoni Krauze] tvm/b&w/65m; cph: Slawomir Idziak |
1972 |
Hipoteza/Hypothesis [Krzysztof Zanussi] tvm/28m |
1973 |
Sobie król [Janusz Leski] tvm/b&w/37m |
1973 |
Sledztwo [Marek Piestrak] tvm/34m |
1973 |
Zólw [Andrzej Kotkowski] tvm/31m |
1974 |
Historia pewnej milosci [Wojciech Wiszniewski] tvm/b&w/52m |
1974 |
Sedziowie. Tragedya [Konrad Swinarski] tvm/51m |
1976 |
Polskie drogi [ep #1-6 dir by Janusz Morgenstern] 11-part series; ep #7-11 ph by Witold Adamek |
1976 |
Umarla klasa. Seans T. Kantora [Andrzej Wajda] doc/72m |
1978 |
Zalegly urlop [Janusz Zaorski] tvm/53m; cph: Janusz Kalicinski |
1978 |
Dlugie pozegnanie [Jerzy Domaradzki & (tv dir) Ryszard Kosminski] tvm; cph: Wojciech Król |
1980 |
Die Jahre vergehen [Peter Keglevic] tvm |
1980 |
Z biegiem lat, z biegiem dni... [Andrzej Wajda & Edward Klosinski] 8-part series; other ph: Witold Adamek |
1983 |
Die Grünstein-Variante [Bernhard Wicki] tvm |
1984 |
Eine blaßblaue Frauenschrift [Axel Corti] 2-part tvm |
1985 |
Pattbergs Erbe [Marianne Lüdcke] tvm/16mm |
1985 |
Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund [Bernhard Wicki] tvm/16mm; cph: Claus Neumann & Jürgen Lenz |
1987 |
Dekalog/Decalogue [ep 'Dwa/Two' (58m) dir by Krzysztof Kieslowski] 10-part series |
1989 |
Modrzejewska [Jan Lomnicki] 7-part series |
1991 |
Kuchnia polska [ep #1-2 dir by Jacek Bromski] 6-part series, 1991-93; other ph: Janusz Gauer |
1991 |
Der große Bellheim [Dieter Wedel] 4-part miniseries |
1994 |
Der Schattenmann [Dieter Wedel] 5-part miniseries |
1995 |
Im Innern des Bernsteins [Ilse Hofmann] tvm |
1995 |
Amfitrion [Michal Kwiecinski] tvm |
1996 |
Opowiesci weekendowe/Weekend Stories [ep 'Damski interes/A Woman's Business' (56m), 'Slaba wiara/Little Faith' (54m) & 'Urok wszeteczny/Deceptive Charm' (55m) dir by Krzysztof Zanussi] 8-part series, 1996-97 & 2000 |
1996 |
Tristan i Izolda [Krystyna Janda] tvm |
1997 |
Der König von St. Pauli [ep #1-4 & #6 dir by Dieter Wedel] 6-part miniseries, 1998; other ph: Gerard Vandenberg (cph #2), Franz Rath (#5) & Kurt Weber (#5); also 3-part tvm (2003) |
1998 |
Liebe mich bis in den Tod [Michael Keusch] tvm |
1998 |
Fizjologia malzenstwa [Krystyna Janda] 24-part series, 1999-2000 |
1999 |
Od czasu do czasu [Juliusz Machulski] tvm |
1999 |
Skowronek [Krzysztof Zanussi] tvm |
2000 |
Opowiesci weekendowe/Weekend Stories [ep 'Skarby ukryte/The Hidden Treasure' (54m) dir by Krzysztof Zanussi] see 1996 |
2000 |
Zwiazek otwarty [Krystyna Janda] tvm/52m |
2001 |
Zazdrosc [Krystyna Janda] tvm/71m |
2002 |
Porozmawiajmy o zyciu i smierci [Krystyna Janda] tvm/55m |
2003 |
19. Poludnik [Juliusz Machulski] tvm/75m |
2003 |
Sluby panienskie czyli magnetyzm serca [Krystyna Janda] tvm |
2003 |
Meskie - Zenskie [ep #4 'Buty', #5 'Aktorka' & #6 'Danie swiateczne' dir by Krystyna Janda] 6-part series/v, 2003-04; other ph: Witold Sobocinski |
2006 |
Mein alter Freund Fritz [Dieter Wedel] tvm |
2007 |
1939-1944 Tagebuch eines Lagerkommandanten [Anja Krug-Metzinger] doc + dram seq/b&w-c/52m/dv; cph: Bernd Meiners; released in 2011 |
FILMS AS CAMERA ASSISTANT/OPERATOR | |
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1969 |
Sasiedzi [Aleksander Scibor-Rylski] co-c.asst; ph: Kurt Weber |
With dir Wojciech Marczewski - "Podrózni jak inni"
1969 |
Podrózni jak inni [Wojciech Marczewski; tvm/24m] co-c.op; ph: Slawomir Idziak |
1970 |
Lokis. Rekopis profesora Wittembacha [Janusz Majewski] c.asst; ph: Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz |
1970 |
Brzezina/The Birch Wood [Andrzej Wajda; tvm] c.op (and finished film as ph); ph: Zygmunt Samosiuk |
1970 |
Dzien listopadowy [Edward Zebrowski; tvm] c.asst; ph: Zygmunt Samosiuk |
1971 |
Jeszcze slychac spiew. I rzenie koni... [Mieczyslaw Waskowski] c.asst; ph: Slawomir Idziak |
1972 |
Zabijcie czarna owce/Kill the Black Sheep [Jerzy Passendorfer] c.op; ph: Stefan Pindelski |