Skolimowski Film Screenings ~ Melbourne July 2009

Long & tangled threads of irony, absurdity, poetry & fantasy link the deeply political work of Jerzy Skolimowski (b. 1938), a director & actor whose life began in the belly of war-torn Poland. Skolimowski entered college only as a means of avoiding military service. His encounters with the world of literature, however, sparked his love affair with the written word & by his early 20s he was already an accomplished poet & writer.