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			Akropolis James MacTaggart, UK, 1968; 85m Introduced by Thomas Richards and Mario Biagini of the Grotowski Estate and Paul Allain, Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Kent This film captures Grotowski’s epochal rendering of Stanislaw Wyspianski’s title play, which introduced Grotowski and his Laboratory Theatre to the West. A collaboration with famous Polish director, set designer, playwright, and Auschwitz survivor Jozef Szajna, it was performed to great acclaim (and controversy) at the 1968 Edinburgh Film Festival. The piece features actors representing Auschwitz prisoners building a crematorium around the audience while interpreting stories from the Bible and Greek mythology. The film includes an introduction and analysis by Peter Brook. [Photo: Laboratory Theatre, Akropolis. Courtesy of The Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland.]		Buy Tickets Sat Jul 11: 6
			The Constant Prince by Jerzy Grotowski: Reconstruction / Il principe costante di Jerzy Grotowski. Ricostruzione Ferruccio Marotti, Italy, 2005; 48m Introduced by Paul Allain, Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Kent In 1965, Grotowski directed a theatrical landmark, Juliusz Slowacki’s adaptation of Calderon’s riveting meditation on torture and martyrdom, The Constant Prince. Ryszard Cieslak’s title performance is considered the pinnacle of Grotowski’s approach to acting. Grotowski worked individually with the actor for more than a year to develop role based on an extraordinary and luminous moment from Cieslak’s adolescence. In 1977, Ferruccio Marotti united silent footage of the landmark production with recorded dialogue, resulting in this 2005 digital restoration by the Università La Sapienza in Rome. Please note: The film will be presented without subtitles. A detailed synopsis will be provided ~ download now. [Photo: Ryszard Cieslak in The Constant Prince, by A. Paluchiewicz, 1965.] screening with With Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadowka, 1980 Jill Godmilow, USA, 1980; 59m Introduced by Jill Godmilow In 1980, Jerzy Grotowski asked his friend Mercedes Gregory to put together a film crew and travel with him to the small village of Nienadowka, Poland, where he and his family were sheltered during the German Nazi occupation. In this search for the people, places, images, sounds, and memories indelibly linked to his art, Grotowski reconnects with the locations where he had his most penetrating experiences and challenges us to rediscover our original joy, what he eloquently calls “the movement within the repose.” [Photo: Jerzy Grotowski, Nienadowka, by Jan Fiolek]		Buy Tickets Sat Jul 11: 8:30
			Art as Vehicle Mercedes Gregory, USA, 1989; 60m Introduced by Lisa Wolford Wylam, Associate Professor, York University This film offers a rare look at the performance opus Downstairs Action, created by Thomas Richards under Grotowski’s supervision as a first step by the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski into “Art as Vehicle.” From 1988 to 1992, Workcenter members were either performing or rehearsing their actions, eight hours a day, six days a week. Due to the nature of Art as Vehicle, the work was rarely seen; however, witnesses were often invited test the quality of the work so that it was not, in Grotowski’s words, “a purely private matter, useless to others.” [Still from the rushes of the film Art as Vehicle by Mercedes Gregory: Downstairs Action (1989) – Nitaya Singsengouvanh and Thomas Richards.] screening with Action in Aya Irini Jacques Vetter, France, 2004; 70m Thomas Richards’s ongoing opus Action, begun by the Workcenter in 1994, presents detailed lines of actions constructed with and around ancient vibratory songs from African and Afro-Caribbean traditions. Though created within the purposefully private field of “Art as Vehicle,” Action has been performed before thousands of people, always in small groups. This 2003 performance in the Byzantine church Aya Irini in Istanbul was part of the Workcenter’s three-year “Tracing Roads Across” project, supported by the EU’s Culture 2000 program and a network of cultural institutions from five different countries. [Still from the rushes of the film Action in Aya Irini by Jacques Vetter of Atelier Cinéma de Normandie – A.C.C.A.A.N.: Action (2003) in the church of Aya Irini in Istanbul, Turkey – Thomas Richards, Mario Biagini, and Francesc Torrent Gironella.]		Buy Tickets Sun Jul 12: 1
			Dies Iræ: The Preposterous Theatrum Interioris Show Jacques Vetter, France, 2009; 70m WORLD PREMIERE Introduced by Thomas Richards and Mario Biagini, Artistic Director and Associate Director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards Dies Irae, performed by the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards from 2003 to 2006, marks a first in Workcenter history, as it explores the ways in which Art as Vehicle can reside in a performance that actively takes into consideration the spectators’ journey of perceptions. It combines work by T.S. Eliot, Franz Kafka, and ancient anonymous scripts with songs ranging from Gregorian to Chinese, resulting in a theater piece unlike any other. The footage in this world premiere film presentation was recorded in Pontedera, Italy, in April 2006. [(Still from film material of Dies Iræ shot in Istanbul by Jacques Vetter of Atelier Cinéma de Normandie – A.C.C.A.A.N.: Dies Iræ (2003) in the church of Aya Irini in Istanbul, Turkey – Gey Pin Ang, Francesc Torrent Gironella, Mario Biagini, and Jørn Riegels Wimpel. Photo by Cem Ardik.] On Grotowski and His Legacy is presented in partnership with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards and the Jerzy Grotowski Estate. The film program is curated by the Jerzy Grotowski Estate. These events are made possible through the generous support from the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. The screening of The Constant Prince is by courtesy of Sapienza University of Rome - Centro Teatro Ateneo - centro di ricerca sullo spettacolo.		Buy Tickets Sun Jul 12: 4