Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has

Join a 30 minute talk by Columbia professor Annette Insdorf, and a signing of her new book, Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has following a screening of Wojciech Has’ film The Hourglass Sanatorium.

About the Film
The Hourglass Sanatorium
A special presentation of Polish director Wojciech Jerzy Has’ restored art-house masterpiece, based on the writings of Polish author Bruno Schulz, and winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes.

A young man (Nowicki) visits his ailing father in a crumbling sanatorium where time collapses and death never comes. The Hourglass Sanatorium conjures a surrealist fantasia in which past and present—from the Three Wise Men to the Holocaust—collide in a mind-bending phantasmagoria.

About the Speaker
Annette Insdorf
Annette Insdorf is a ​professor in the Film Program of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She is the author of “Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski”; “Francois Truffaut,” a study of the French director’s work; “Philip Kaufman,” and the landmark study, “Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust” (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel). Her commentaries can be heard on many DVDs, and she has interviewed over 200​ film celebrities in her popular “Reel Pieces” series at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y. She has been a juror at film festivals including Berlin, Galway, Locarno and Jerusalem, and is the panel moderator at the annual Telluride Film Festival.