Cinema
"When I was a child, my father often took me to see Charlie Chaplin movies. When I was in high school, I would often go to the movie theatre, so my first inspiration was cinema, not photography.
I liked films by Kurosawa, Fellini and some of Wajda's films such as Kanał. But the films which impressed me the most were Bergman's films. When I first saw his film Ansyktet (in English: The magician), I was so impressed that I could not sleep the entire night; I kept walking back and forth in my room... Then I saw Wild Strawberries, The seventh seal. It was at that time that I decided that I would also become a film director and also make such movies. When I moved to America I wanted to go to a film school, unfortunately I did not have the opportunity to do so. My father did not want to finance this idea of mine, and so I decided to study mathematics instead..."
1975-77: Assistant Film Director and Still Photographer at the Film UnitKadr, Warsaw, Poland.
First Assistant Director in the feature film Death of a President. Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1977. Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1978.
First Assistant Director in the feature film The Flames are Still Alive. Directed by Nobito Abe. A Japanese-Polish co-production, 1976.
Second Assistant Director in the feature film Condemned. Directed by Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki, 1975. Award winner at the San Sebastian and Gdynia Film Festivals in 1976.
1973: Writer and director of the short (27 min.) fiction film The Daughter, 1973. Filmed in New York City. Shown at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1973, Danish TV and MIFED in Milan.
1967: Director of the short (8 min.) fiction film “Machina”, 1967. Filmed in Boston. Shown by the channel CBC Montreal and Toronto. Second price at the UNCIPAR Buenos Aires Film Festival in 1973.