
Kazimierz Karabasz
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-05-06
Day of Death
2018-08-11 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Bydgoszcz, Poland
Kazimierz Karabasz
Biography
Kazimierz Karabasz (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʑ kaˈrabaʂ]; May 6, 1930 in Bydgoszcz, Poland – August 11, 2018) was a Polish documentary filmmaker. A graduate of the Łódź Film School in 1956, he also taught the documentary programme there for many years.
Although his work is now rarely seen, his most famous film, a ten-minute documentary short entitled Muzykanci / The Musicians, is an extra on the Criterion Collection edition of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film The Double Life of Véronique. Kieślowski, whom Karabasz mentored, chose this as one of his personal all-time top ten films in a 1992 poll conducted by the film magazine Sight & Sound.
Karabasz is known in Poland for influencing generations of documentary filmmakers to come with his approach to filmmaking called "school of Karabasz" (Polish: szkoła Karabasza). The style focuses of regular people's lives and requires a perspective of an observer with zero impact on the observed object. Muzykanci is considered a textbook example of "Karabasz school". The method was especially popular in the sixties and associated with the œuvre of Władysław Ślesicki, Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki, Krystyna Gryczełowska and Danuta Halladin among others.
Acting
(2005)
Crew
(2004)
Encounters
Director
(1999)
At Dawn and Before Dusk
Director
(1997)
Portrait in a Drop of Water
Director
(1991)
For Example, 9 Grzybowska Street
Director, Screenplay
(1985)
Remembrance
Writer, Director
(1981)
Material Test
Director, Screenplay
(1977)
Summer in Zabno
Director, Writer
(1977)
Two of Us
Director, Writer
(1974)
Punkt widzenia
Director, Writer
(1973)
Krystyna M. Portrait Sketches
Director
(1973)
Elżbieta K
Supervising Art Director
(1971)
Pajace
Thanks
(1971)
Sierpień - zapis kronikalny
Director, Screenplay
(1969)
Marta
Supervising Art Director
(1968)
Adopcja
Supervising Art Director
(1968)
A Year in the Life of Franek W.
Director, Screenplay
(1965)
On the Threshold
Director
(1963)
Birds
Director, Screenplay
(1962)
Pierwszy krok
Director
(1962)
Where We Live
Director, Writer
(1961)
Railway Junction
Director
(1960)
The Musicians
Director, Writer
(1960)
A Bit Different World
Director, Writer
(1960)
People on the Road
Director, Writer
(1959)
A Day Without Sunshine
Director
(1958)
From Powisle
Director, Screenplay
(1957)
The People From an Empty Zone
Director
(1956)
Where the Devil Says Goodnight
Director, Screenplay
(1955)
Day In, Day Out
Director, Writer