Saturday, May 18 | 7:00 p.m. | Kino Muza 1
FAME AND DEATH: IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH ABOUT HUMANKIND. Meeting with the film's director, Edward Porembny
after the screening of the film "Life and Deaths of Max Linder", dir. Edward Porembny
Searching for documentation about Max Linder, we found in an abandoned house a trunk sealed for 100 years, with a film from 1926 by an unknown filmmaker. The film depicts Max Linder, the first international screen star who was once revered in France, throughout Europe and in Hollywood. This pioneer of early silent film comedy was a mentor to Charlie Chaplin. Max miraculously avoided death five times. And finally, at the height of his artistic powers, he and his adored wife committed a double suicide. How was this possible?
Meeting host:
Andrzej Marzec – philosopher (assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), film critic, editor of "Czas Kultury". His research interests focus on: dark ecology, ontology oriented towards objects, environmental humanities and contemporary alternative cinema. Author of the books “Widmontologia. Teoria filozoficzna i praktyka artystyczna ponowoczesności” (2015) and “Antropocień – filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata” (2021).
