Jazdon Mikolaj

Film scholar, works at the Institute of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts of the Adam Mickiewicz University. Author of the books Kieslowski’s Documents (Poznan 2002), Polish Independent Cinema (editor of the volume, Poznan 2005) and Kazimierz Karabasz’s Documentary Cinema (Poznan 2009). Editor, together with Katarzyna Mąka-Malatyńska, of the collective volume Seeing Yourself. Polish Documentary Film at the Turn of the Century (Poznan, 2011), and Borderlands of Documentary (Poznan 2012, volume co-edited with K. Mąka-Malatyńska and Piotr Pławuszewski), special issue of Images (2014 no. 24): 21st-century Documentary Film in East and Central Europe, together with K. Mąka-Malatyńska), and Kieslowski Revisited (and Re-watched), together with P. Pławuszewski (2018 No. 33) Author of articles published in Film Quarterly, Images, Cinema, Screens, Sign, Czas Kultury, Humanist Review, Spaces of Theory, Film Magazine, and texts published abroad in English, German, Spanish, Danish, Czech, Slovak. Co-author of studies for the virtual walking tour in the footsteps of places associated with the realization of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue (mapadekalogu.pl). Author of studies for the virtual presentation of the collection of Krzysztof Kieślowski Archive at www.europeana.eucreated by FINA in 2019. Expert of the Polish Film Institute in 2014-2107. Author of studies for DVD film albums of the Polish School of Documentary series (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Kazimierz Karabasz, Władysław Ślesicki, Black Series, and Gryczełowska, Halladin, Kamieńska). Co-author of scripts for 12 episodes of the television series The Art of Documentary (2008). In 1997-2016, he ran the Short Cinema Club at Poznan’s Zamek Cultural Center, i.e. cyclical screenings and author meetings. Curator of reviews as part of the Hommage a Kieślowski festivals in Sokołowsk. Artistic director of the International Film Festival “Off Cinema” in Poznań.