{"id":17926,"date":"2025-03-10T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/events\/od-ii-wojny-swiatowej-do-amerykanskiej-awangardy-jak-wschodnioeuropejskie-doswiadczenia-uksztaltowaly-new-american-cinema\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T10:24:49","slug":"od-ii-wojny-swiatowej-do-amerykanskiej-awangardy-jak-wschodnioeuropejskie-doswiadczenia-uksztaltowaly-new-american-cinema","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/events\/od-ii-wojny-swiatowej-do-amerykanskiej-awangardy-jak-wschodnioeuropejskie-doswiadczenia-uksztaltowaly-new-american-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"From World War II to American Avant-Garde: How Did Eastern European Experiences Shape “New American Cinema”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The so-called \u201cgodfather of American avant-garde cinema\u201d, Jonas Mekas, spent the last year of World War II in a German labour camp. A few decades later the Lithuanian filmmaker became best known for his film diaries \u2014 personal and poetic movies, e.g. Reminiscences of a\u00a0Journey to Lithuania<\/em> (1972). The intimate style of cinema was the crucial feature of not only Mekas\u2019 \u00a0films but most of the New American Cinema<\/em>. \u201cThe First Statement of the New American Cinema<\/em> Group\u201d from 1962 began with a clear declaration: \u201cWe believe that cinema is indivisibly a personal expression\u201d. However, American avant-garde might have looked completely different if it had not been for the conflict between Jonas Mekas and Edouard de Laurot in the early 1960s.<\/p>\n

Edward de Laurot, born as Edward Lauda\u0144ski in Warsaw, Poland, also emigrated to the US after World War II. In the 1950s he met Mekas with whom he became a very close friend for a while. But the two Eastern European friends were like night and day. While Mekas had lost his faith in universal values, de Laurot still believed in them and attempted to\u00a0rehabilitate European ideologies, like Marxism or Existentialism, in his own visionary manner.\u00a0The dispute between Mekas and de Laurot shows a\u00a0significant rift within the generation that experienced World War\u00a0II. A reconstruction of this dispute will also serve as an opportunity to bring out of the shadow the forgotten biography of Edouard de Laurot, including the time when he studied and worked in Paris.<\/p>\n

The Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris invites you to the lecture From World War II to American Avant-Garde: How Did Eastern European Experiences Shape “New American Cinema”?<\/em>, which will be led by \u0141ukasz Kie\u0142pi\u0144ski<\/strong> (Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw) \u2013 a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities at the University of Warsaw, specializing in the beginnings of autobiographical film practices in the 20th century. \u0141ukasz Kie\u0142pi\u0144ski has conducted research at the University of Toronto and at the IWM in Vienna, and has published in “Kwartalnik Filmowy” and “Kultura wsp\u00f3\u0142czesna”. He is a fellow of the NCN grant “Odmie\u0144cy. Performanse inno\u015bci w polskiej kulturze transformacji” and a recipient of the Polish\u00a0 Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship. He has won several awards, including first place in the Ewelina Nurczy\u0144ska-Fidelska Competition and an honorable mention in the Krzysztof M\u0119trak Competition.<\/p>\n

The event is organized as part of the \u201cMeetings with Science<\/a>\u201d project<\/strong>, a series of popular science lectures organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Centre in Paris since 2024. The aim of the project is to promote the achievements of Polish scientists in France, and it is aimed at everyone interested, regardless of their level of knowledge on the topics discussed.<\/p>\n

Due to the limited number of places, those interested in attending the lecture are invited to register by sending an email to secretariat@paris.pan.pl or by filling out the form:\u00a0https:\/\/forms.office.com\/e\/MQCPLZVPR2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The event will be held in a stationary form, in English<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The so-called \u201cgodfather of American avant-garde cinema\u201d, Jonas Mekas, spent the last year of World War II in a German labour camp. A few decades later the Lithuanian filmmaker became best known for his film diaries \u2014 personal and poetic movies, e.g. Reminiscences of a\u00a0Journey to Lithuania (1972). The intimate style of cinema was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":18057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[250,214],"class_list":["post-17926","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-aktualnosci-2-2-en","mec_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/17926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17926"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.pan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=17926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}