🎥 Featured Film Screening:
Witkacy & Malinowski: A Cinematic Séance in 23 Scenes
Directed by Australian filmmaker John Gillies, this “experimental docudrama” recreates a real-life, friendship-ending argument between Witkacy and the famed anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski during a train ride through the Australian countryside in 1914.
Set against the outbreak of World War I, the film captures their heated debate on the political and the personal, on rationality versus the transcendent power of art. Haunted by the recent suicide of his lover, Witkacy spirals into existential despair, while Malinowski clings to logic and scientific detachment.
Intercut with surreal scenes from Witkacy’s own avant-garde play, The Crazy Locomotive, the film blurs history with hallucination. Both the speeding train and the collapsing friendship become metaphors for a Europe—and a psyche—careening toward disaster.
Critics have called it:
“A layered meditation on friendship, ideology, and artistic vision... part fever dream, part intellectual showdown.”
🎟 Tickets:
$10 for KF Members | $15 for Non-members
👉 Please RSVP HERE
Whether you're a longtime admirer or a curious newcomer to Witkacy’s world, this is an evening not to miss—an immersive celebration of radical thought, cinematic storytelling, and Polish cultural heritage.
Photos: Screenshots from the Witkacy & Malinowski: A Cinematic Séance in 23 Scenes.
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