Film Archive

Declaration of Immortality

Documentary Films - Competition 2011 / Deklaracja nieśmiertelności / Poland 2010

Marcin Koszałka’s film offers a portrait of a legend among Polish rock climbers, Piotr Korczak. Using innovative techniques to develop a multilayered film language, the director presents a disturbing portrait of a professional climber’s solitary struggle with ageing and mortality.

Synopsis

Piotr Korczak is a god among Polish climbers. Back in the mid-1980s he initiated what are now legendary levels of climbing difficulty. Polish director Marcin Koszałka gives us breathtaking shots of his remarkable sporting feats which also demonstrate that the filmmaker himself is quite at ease scaling vertical rock faces. Using innovative techniques to develop a multilayered film language and incorporating thought-provoking dialogue, the director presents a disturbing portrait of a professional climber’s solitary struggle with ageing and mortality.

About the film

30 min / Color, 35 mm

Director Marcin Koszałka / Screenplay Marcin Koszałka / Dir. of Photography Marcin Koszałka / Music Andrzej Smolik / Editor Anna Wagner / Producer Ryszard Urbaniak / Production TVP 1 / Contact TVP SA

About the director

Marcin Koszałka (b. 1970, Krakow) studied sociology, cinematography, and production at the University of Silesia. As a cameraman he worked on several features (e.g. Scratch and Till It Hurts - both presented at KVIFF 2009). Filmography as director: Such a Nice Boy (1999), Namesday (2000), Come What May (2001), All Day Together (2006 – awarded at the Jihlava IDFF), Death with a Human Face (2007), Existence (2007), Declaration of Immortality.

Contacts

TVP SA
J.P. Woronicza 17, 00-999, Warsaw
Poland
Phone: +48 225 478 501, +48 225 476 203
Fax: +48 225 474 248
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Aleksandra Biernacka
Publicist

Marcin Koszałka
Director of Photography, Film Director

Anna Kowalewska-Onaszkiewicz
Producer

Maciej Karpinski
Film Institution Rep., Film Institution Rep.