{"id":134260,"date":"2024-07-30T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=134260"},"modified":"2024-08-01T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:31:51","slug":"film-premiere-the-rise-and-fall-of-zygmunt-blask","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/film-video-en\/film-premiere-the-rise-and-fall-of-zygmunt-blask-134260\/","title":{"rendered":"Film premiere: \u201cThe Rise and Fall of Zygmunt Blask\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Set in Poland\u2019s underground queer scene in the 1970s and 1980s, \u201cThe Rise and Fall of Zygmunt Blask\u201d tells the story of glam rock superstar Zygmunt Blask. The fictional character was created by Polish musician Jemek Jemowit, who released his rock opera \u201cLegenda Zygmunt Blask\u201d in 2021. In the film by Krzysztof Honowski and Jemek Jemowit, artists Ewa Maria Slaska and Leon Dziemaszkiewicz trace the life of the pop icon, whose rise and fall exemplifies many fleeting existences\u00a0 between censorship, self-determination, emigration and exile.<\/p>\n

Based on their personal experiences and memories, Slaska and Dziemaszkiewicz describe an alternative European history of the East and West. Part musical, part documentary, part queer-feminist agitprop, the film combines collages of home videos from communist Poland with interviews and staged re-enactments shot in Berlin and Zielona G\u00f3ra.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rise and Fall of Zygmunt Blask\u201d is an unsparing tribute to hard-fought battles for the right to self-determination, which have been waged over the years in former Soviet countries and are being fought today with renewed vigour.<\/p>\n

The event is part of the programme accompanying the Open Space \u201cLiberty, Equality, Solidarno\u015b\u0107<\/a>\u201d by Ewa Maria Slaska, Anna Krenz and Jemek Jemowit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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