Margaret Pospiech

Margaret (Małgorzata, Gosha) Pospiech is a writer, filmmaker,journalist, translator and photographer born in Poland, and now based in New York. She obtained her PhD from Wroclaw University where she studied literature, film and art.[1] She gained national recognition for her work as director and writer of a feature documentary about Arthur Penn, the famous American filmmaker. Malgorzata has made several documentaries for Polish TV, like "A Generation", which chronicles the plight of Polish people deported to Siberia by the Soviets and short documentaries about Polish artists. In addition to that she has compiled over 70 interviews on camera with veterans of World War II which are now housed in visual archives at the Polish Army Veteran's Association in Manhattan and linked to the official site of Peter Weir's movie The Way Back (2010).

As a writer, she has been contributing to the top Polish literary magazines for the past 20 years. She has published hundreds articles, essays, interviews, and reviews for both popular and academic publications. She works also as translator (published translations). She published Arthur Penn in Conversations (2011), novels: A Small Town ( Miasteczko) 2014 nominated for Central Europe Literary Award Angelus, The Seventh Ring ( Siodmy Krag ) 2016; Ariadne's Labyrinths (Klebki Ariadny)2017 nominated for Central Europe Literary Award Angelus; poetry A Notebook ( Notatnik) 2016 nominated for Silesius Poetry Award; Fog Over the River Styx (Mgły nad rzeką Styks)2019 nominated for Central Europe Literary Award Angelus.

In her photography she gravitates towards landscapes of New York, and portraits.

In her experimental films ("Heat", 2005) and video installations ("Wasteland" 2006–2009, "Landscapes" 2008–2010) she creates internal landscapes. She had several exhibitions and screenings in New York.

Filmography[2]
  • 2005 – Heat (director, screenplay, cinematography, editing, producer)
  • 2003 – A Generation (director, documentation)
  • 2002 - We Don't Forget Poland ( director, writer)
  • 2002- Andrzej Lech. ( director,writer)
  • 1994 – Arthur Penn (director, writer)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arthur Penn in Conversations, Toruń 2011

A Small Town ( Miasteczko), Toruń 2014

The Seventh Ring ( Siódmy Krag), Torun 2016

A Notebook (Notatnik), Toruń 2016

Ariadne's Labyrinths ( Kłębki Ariadny), Toruń 2017

Fog Over the River Styx (2019)

gollark: No, that's not how it works.
gollark: In fact, no, that's not even the most recent one since I launched the whole dynamic keying thing.
gollark: It is probably one of the old ones, but it's not worked... probably since I launched SPUDNET-HKI.
gollark: <@!369987447276437523> That backdoor key doesn't actually *work*.
gollark: Recording/encoding is probably done in hardware.

References
  1. "Małgorzata Pośpiech" (in Polish). nauka-polska.pl. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
  2. "Sylwetka Małgorzaty Pośpiech" (in Polish). filmpolski.pl. Retrieved December 28, 2010.

3.www.dziennik.com/przeglad-polski/artykul/wysilek-pamieci

4.http://obnt.pl/pl/aktualności/odkrywanie-ojca/
5.cosmopolitanreview.com/tags/malgorzata-pospiech/
6.papierowymorderca.blogspot.com/.../magorzata-pospiech-miastecz..
7.https://bookeriada.pl/recenzja-malgorzata-pospiech-siodmy-krag


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.