Rafał Syska

Rafał Syska (born July 18, 1974 in Kielce) is a Polish film historian and associate professor in the Audiovisual Arts Department of Jagiellonian University in Cracow. First he was specialized in the phenomenon of violence in cinema (Ph-D thesis Film and Violence. Ways of Film Violence Representation), then he focused on strategies of authorship in American cinema (post Ph-D., habilitation dissertation Keep the Distance. Film World of Robert Altman). At present he is an expert of the contemporary minimalistic slow-cinema, especially its neomodernism tendencies (e.g. works of Theo Angelopoulos, Alexander Sokurov, Béla Tarr, Bruno Dumont, Sarunas Bartas, Fred Kelemen, Tsai Ming-liang, Lisandro Alonso, Carlos Reygadas.

He was also an editor of the dictionary Film Dictionary and now he is a co-editor of a numerous-volume books: Masters of American Cinema and History of Cinema.

Syska was also a grant holder of the Kosciuszko Foundation, Stanislaw Estreicher Foundation, Polityka Weekly Magazine and Foundation for Polish Science. He was a scholar visitin at Columbia University in New York in 2012. In years 1994-2004, he was co-creator of Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival in Kraków and twice he was its deputy director. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of "EKRANy" bi-monthly film magazine. Syska was a curator of the exhibition Stanley Kubrick (2014) and Andrzej Wajda (2019) - both in the National Museum in Cracow. Since 2016 he is the director of the National Centre for Film Culture in Lodz. He is also a member of Kyoto-Krakow Foundation and ICOM International council of museums. In 2016 he was a chairman of the board of National Film Archive in Warsaw.

Publications (selection)

Books:

  • 100 thrillers, Rabid, Kraków, 2002.
  • Film and Violence. Ways of Film Violence Representation, Rabid, Kraków, 2003.
  • Film Dictionary (editor), Zielona Sowa, Kraków 2005.
  • Masters of American Cinema, vol. 1 Classics, co-editor Łukasz A. Plesnar, Rabid, Kraków 2006.
  • Masters of American Cinema, vol. 2 Rebel and Nostalgia, co-editor Łukasz A. Plesnar, Rabid, Kraków 2007.
  • Poetry of Pictures. Theo Angelopoulos Films, Rabid, Kraków 2008.
  • Keep the Distance. Film World of Robert Altman, Rabid, Kraków 2008.
  • History of Cinema, vol. 1. Silent Cinema, co-editor Tadeusz Lubelski, Iwona Sowińska, Universitas, Kraków 2009.
  • Masters of American Cinema, vol. 3 Present Time, co-editor Łukasz A. Plesnar, Rabid, Kraków 2010.
  • History of Cinema, vol. 2. Classical Cinema, co-editor Tadeusz Lubelski, Iwona Sowińska, Universitas, Kraków 2011.
  • Adaptation of American Literature, editor, EKRANy, Kraków 2013.
  • Neomodernism in Cinema, Avalon, Kraków 2014.
  • History of Cinema, vol. 3. New Vawe Cinema, co-editor Tadeusz Lubelski, Iwona Sowińska, Universitas, Kraków 2015.
  • History of Cinema, vol. 4. Cinema of the End of the Century, co-editor Tadeusz Lubelski, Iwona Sowińska, Universitas, Kraków 2018.
  • Andrzej Wajda, editor, National Museum, Kraków 2019.

Essays (selection):

  • Terror Cinema [in] Film Genre. Yesterday and Today, Krzysztof Loska (ed.), Rabid Kraków 1998.
  • Aggression and Evil. Ways of 20th Century Destructivness [in] Iconical Violence or New Sight, Eugeniusz Wilk (ed.), WUŚ Katowice 2001.
  • Thriller as a Genre [in] Around Film Genre, Krzysztof Loska (ed.), Kraków 2002.
  • Revolution that has not come. Upon political context of Rainer Werner Fassbinder works [in] Masters of European Cinema, Grażyna Stachówna, Joanna Wojnicka (ed.), Kraków 2002.
  • Janusz Morgenstern. In the Trap of Present Time [w:] Authors of Polish Cinema, Grażyna Stachówna, Joanna Wojnicka (ed.), Kraków 2004.
  • Béla Tarr. Wheel is Over [in] Authors of European Cinema, vol. 3, Alicja Helman, Andrzej Pitrus (ed.), Rabid, Kraków 2007.
  • Michael Haneke – In Feeling of Guilt [in] New Audiovisual – New Paradigm of Culture?, Eugeniusz Wilk, Iwona Kolasińska-Pasterczyk (ed.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2008.
  • Bruno Dumont – Looking [in] Authors of European Cinema, Alicja Helman, Andrzej Pitrus (ed.), Rabid, Kraków 2009.
  • Marlowe from the Beyond. „The Long Goodbye” by Robert Altman [in] „Studia filmoznawcze” nr 29, Sławomir Bobowski (ed.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2009.
  • The Beginning of American Cineman [in] History of Cinema, vol. 1, Silent Cinema, Tadeusz Lubelski, Iwona Sowińska, Rafał Syska (ed.), Universitas, Kraków 2009.
  • David Lynch. Sad Cinema About Death [in] Masters of American Cinema, vol. 3., Present Time, Łukasz Plesnar, Rafał Syska (ed.), Rabid, Kraków 2009.
  • Experience of the internal cinema. Narration in Inland Empire by David Lynch [in:] "Kwartalnik filmowy" 71-72/2010.
  • Don Kichote by Orson Welles: Unfinished Journey onto the Moon [in:] From Cervantes to Perez-Reverte. Adaptation of Spanish Literature, ed. Alicja Helman i Kamila Żyto, Warszawa: Kino Rabid 2010.
  • Theory of Meaning by David Bordwell, "EKRANy" 1-2,3/2012.
  • Neomodernism. Slow-Motion Cinema, "EKRANy" 1-2/2012.
  • Internal Women World. Early Works by Chantal Akerman, "Kwartalnik filmowy" 79/2012.
  • Nostalgia for Tarkovsky. Films of Carlos Reygadas and Alexandr Sokurov [in:] Film Zone. Cinema of Andrey Tarkovsky, ed. Iwona Anna NDiaye, Marek Sokołowski, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2013.
  • Split screen – History of Shattered World, "EKRANy" 2013, 5 (15).
  • Time-lasting. Gilles Deleuze in Contemporary Cinema, "EKRANy" 2014, 2 (18).
  • Art-hard core, "EKRANy" 2014, 3-4 (19-20).
  • We Are All Kubricks, "Dekada Krakowska" 3/4 (13/14) 2014.
  • No-film, nie-cinema [w:] „EKRANy” 5/2016, s. 4-10.
  • Smart cinema. Wise cinema from indie-world" [in:] „Kwartalnik filmowy” 93-94/2016, s. 130-139.
  • Unvisible heroes of back stage. RKO and Orson Welles [in:] Orson Welles. Works – Reception – Heritage, Paweł Biliński (ed.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2016, s. 59-72.
  • Comic books in museums and galleries. Paradoxes of presence and absence of comic books in museum practices, in: „Kultura popularna”, 2019 nr 4 (62), s. 28-41.
  • Intensity of the Moment [in:] Rafał Syska (ed.), Fotosy:– Renata Pajchel, Narodowe Centrum Kultury Filmowej, Łódź 2018


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