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Kazimierz Karabasz
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Kazimierz Karabasz (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʑ kaˈrabaʂ]; May 6, 1930 in Bydgoszcz, Poland – August 11, 2018) was a Polish documentary filmmaker. A graduate of the Łódź Film…
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Kazimierz Karabasz (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʑ kaˈrabaʂ]; May 6, 1930 in Bydgoszcz, Poland – August 11, 2018) was a Polish documentary filmmaker. A graduate of the Łódź Film School 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 Criterion Collection edition of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film The Double Life of Véronique. 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, Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki, Krystyna Gryczełowska and Danuta Halladin among others.
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2016
The Intensity of the Gaze
Movie Self
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2008
Co w bagażu?
Movie Director
- 2006
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2004
Encounters
Movie Director
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1999
At Dawn and Before Dusk
Movie Director
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1997
Portrait in a Drop of Water
Movie Director
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1991
For Example, 9 Grzybowska Street
Movie Director
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1985
Remembrance
Movie Writer
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1981
Material Test
Movie Director
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1977
Summer in Zabno
Movie Director
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1977
Two of Us
Movie Director
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1974
Punkt widzenia
Movie Director
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1973
Krystyna M. Portrait Sketches
Movie Director
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1973
Elżbieta K
Movie Supervising Art Director
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1971
Pajace
Movie Thanks
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1971
Sierpień - zapis kronikalny
Movie Director
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1969
Marta
Movie Supervising Art Director
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1968
A Year in the Life of Franek W.
Movie Director
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1968
Adopcja
Movie Supervising Art Director
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1965
On the Threshold
Movie Director
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1963
Birds
Movie Director
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1962
First Step
Movie Director
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1962
Where We Live
Movie Director
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1961
Railway Junction
Movie Director
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1960
People on the Road
Movie Director
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1960
The Musicians
Movie Director
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1960
A Bit Different World
Movie Director
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1959
A Day Without Sunshine
Movie Director
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1958
From Powisle
Movie Director
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1957
People of the Vacant Area
Movie Director
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1956
Where the Devil Says Goodnight
Movie Director
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1955
Man Does Not Die
Movie Assistant Director
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1955
Day In, Day Out
Movie Director
