Pawel Lozinski, a Polish film-maker, shot his latest documentary from his balcony in Warsaw. He reports having almost 2,000 conversations over the course of two and a half years
from ordinary people going about their lives, news teams and documentary film-makers usually head to city squares and transport hubs. Pawel Lozinski, a, takes a different approach. Instead of seeking out his subjects, they come to him. From the balcony of his first-floor apartment in Warsaw, he chats to passersby as his camera rolls. . He poses simple questions: where are you going, what’s that you’re carrying? Each is an invitation to his interlocutors to share their stories.
“The Balcony Movie” follows a style of documentary reportage that is celebrated in Poland. “We believe in the world in a drop of water,” Mr Lozinski explains. The idea, often attributed to Kazimierz Karabasz—the godfather of Polish documentary—is that a film can be deceptively simple, yet full of meaning. Krzysztof Kieslowski, the acclaimed director of the “Three Colours” trilogy, adopted a similar approach in “Talking Heads”, his short film of 1980.
His documentary also gestures at Polish resilience. The country struggled under a communist regime for more than four decades after the second world war. A woman in a wheelchair who looks old enough to have lived through the war humbly maintains that nothing special happened in her life. The tireless Ms Zosia, who cleans the grounds outside the apartment, hints at the daily routines which keep people going in times of instability.
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