Kazimierz Karabasz

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1930-05-06

Deathday 2018-08-11 (88 years old)

Place of Birth Bydgoszcz, Poland

Kazimierz Karabasz

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

2004
Encounters

as Director

1999
1985
Remembrance

as Director

1981
Material Test

as Director

1977
Summer in Zabno

as Director

1977
Two of Us

as Director

1974
Punkt widzenia

as Director

1965
On the Threshold

as Director

1963
Birds

as Director

1962
Pierwszy krok

as Director

1962
Where We Live

as Director

1961
Railway Junction

as Director

1960
The Musicians

as Director

1960
1960
People on the Road

as Director

1959
1958
From Powisle

as Director

1955
Day In, Day Out

as Director

Writer

1985
Remembrance

as Writer

1981
Material Test

as Screenplay

1977
Two of Us

as Writer

1974
Punkt widzenia

as Writer

1963
Birds

as Screenplay

1962
Where We Live

as Writer

1960
1960
1960
The Musicians

as Writer

1958
From Powisle

as Screenplay

1955
Day In, Day Out

as Writer

Art

1973
Elżbieta K

as Supervising Art Director

1969
Marta

as Supervising Art Director

1968
Adopcja

as Supervising Art Director

Crew

1971
Pajace

as Thanks