Please join us for a post-screening panel discussion about Andrzej Wajda’s work and influence on Polish cinema. 

Legendary director Andrzej Wajda’s final film Afterimage is a passionate portrait of renowned avantgarde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who challenged Stalinist orthodoxy in post-war Poland. Strzeminski works as a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Łódź. His students revere him as a genius, but university authorities and the Ministry of Culture have a differing opinion. Refusing to comply with Communist Party regulations, he is eventually expelled from the university and the artists union. As the Communist authorities continue their efforts to ruin him, Strzeminski remains steadfast in his political and artistic convictions. (Andrzej Wajda, 2016, DCP, Polish with English subtitles, 100 minutes)

Organized in partnership with the Embassy of Poland, the Kosciuszko Foundation, and the Wajda Film Center, Warsaw.

Panel participants:

Barbora Bartunková, provenance specialist, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jason Mientkiewicz, research associate, department of modern and contemporary art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Rafał Syska, Professor, Institute of Audiovisual Arts, Jagellonian University, Krakow, and Wajda Film Center, Warsaw, Poland

JP Schutte, moderator, Kosciuszko Foundation, Washington DC