Transience

Having found my SteelPan (or SteelDrum) solo from a concert on 8th May 2002 ten years after it was recorded I'd like to dedicate this piece and the images to Wojtek Sówka - wonderful person and a great SteelDrum maker, who's just recently been called to make a steelband in some other state of existence.

Orły 2012 - Maciej Stuhr i szalony sen Roberta Więckiewicza

Oskary przyciągają plejadą gwiazd, które pojawiają się na scenie podczas ceremonii. Podczas Orłów to Maciek Stuhr sprawia, że pędzimy dowiedzieć się, kto według Polskiej Akademii Filmowej w ostatnim roku wykazał się największym talentem. Pełna lista zwycięzców na stronie Polskich Nagród Filmowych. Tymczasem kolejny klip, który Maciek przygotował na tegoroczną galę, a tutaj link do klipu sprzed dwóch lat.

Orły 2012 - Maciej Stuhr vs. "Sala samobójców"

Oto kolejna odsłona Maćka, który tym razem rozmawia... z Jakubem Gierszałem. Wkrótce "Szalony sen Roberta Więckiewicza".

"Pragnienie piękna" - pokaz przedpremierowy

W piątek 16 marca w Szczecińskim kinie Pionier (nota bene najstarszym czynnym kinie świata) będzie miał miejsce otwarty, przedpremierowy pokaz naszego filmu w reżyserii Miguela Gaudencio z udziałem Agaty Kuleszy. Wszystkich, którzy znajdują się w okolicy i chcą zmierzyć się z ciemną stroną lustra, zapraszamy serdecznie.

Pełna lista płac.

W sobotę 17 marca mam przyjemność dopisać, że pokaz filmu się udał, bowiem film spotkał się z bardzo ciepłym przyjęciem publiczności, której za wypełnienie sali serdecznie dziękujęmy! Film idzie na rynek, a sprawą dystrybucji zajmie się Watchout Productions.

ORŁY 2012

Już wkrótce ceremonia wręczenia Polskich Nagród Filmowych Orły 2012. Przeniesione na inny termin z powodu żałoby narodowej, odbędą się 19 marca 2012 w Teatrze Narodowym w Warszawie. Transmisja z ceremonii na żywo w TVP 2 o godzinie 19:00.

I tym razem, tak jak dwa lata temu, przygotowaliśmy z Maćkiem Stuhrem, Joanną Fedorowicz, Bartkiem Mrozowskim, Filipem Kuncewiczem, Niezależną Fundacją Filmową i ekipą chętnych osób filmową niespodziankę.Więcej o wydarzeniu na stronie festiwalu www.pnf.pl.

Tymczasem naszą "montażówkę" sprzed dwóch lat, Orły 2010, kiedy to Maciej Stuhr postanowił wejść w świat nominowanych i nie nominowanych filmów i porozmawiać z bohaterami  na temat ich szans na nagrodę można obejrzeć tutaj.

http://www.pnf.pl/aktualnosc/337/nowy+termin+ceremonii+orlow+2012+19+marca+2012+teatr+narodowy+w+warszawie

"Fantasy on a Theme of Morawski" Trailer

The movie was selected for Camerimage 2011 and had it's premiere on the Festival.

It tells a story of a forgotten, yet congenial Polish composer Eugeniusz Morawski (1876-1948).

His works that we can perform today are just remnants. All the rest (about 80% of the heritage!) burnt in the fire of Warsaw Uprising 1944.

In 2011 Monika Wolińska, hearing the only 1970's recording of Morawski in a radio decided to re-record and publish his music for the very first time ever. She performed Morawski's 3 symhonic poems with Sinfonia Varsovia. These are amazing masterpieces of orchestral music and it's even more surprising, how such a thing could have disappeared from people's memory.

The remaining music of Morawski, very reach and emotional, indeed a "film-like", was composed mostly beween 1910 and 1920 in Paris, where Morawski lived for over 20 years. It consists of 3 symphonic poems and 2 ballets, some songs and the rest... piano conertos, symphonies, other symphonic poems, quartets etc. - is most probably irreversibly gone.

The album with the music and the film on DVD will be released in April 2012.
Thank you very much to all those involved.
The full crew and cast list in the post below.

YouTube Link

Coming soon

New Intro for Chopin Museum.

1. nagroda w kategorii Spot reklamowy, radiowy lub telewizyjny za "Oko w oko z Chopinem"

Dziś, podczas uroczystości w Ministerstwie Rozwoju Regionalnego z rąk wiceministra Adama Ździebło Alicja Knast, kurator Muzeum Chopina, odebrała I nagrodę za najlepszy spot reklamowy promujący działania finansowane z funduszy europejskich. Zaszczyt ten bowiem przypadł filmowi "Oko w oko z Chopinem" zrealizowanego na zamówienie Narodowego Instytutu Fryderyka Chopina.

Serdeczne podziękowania w imieniu całego zespołu zaangażowenego w projekt!

Film powstał dzięki następującym osobom:

Maciej Puczyński - scenariusz, zdjęcia, reżyseria

Piotr Jasiński - produkcja, wsparcie kreatywne

Agnieszka Pranica - postać

Marcin Przymus, Rafał Castelli - graficy 3D

Alicja Knast - nadzór merytoryczny

Maciej Długaj - operator kamery

Tomasz Kućkowski - montaż

Filip Kuncewicz - muzyka i sound design

Olga Puczyńska - copywrite

Marcin Ziemczyk - storyboard

Paulina Czernek - scenografia

Magda Zabierzowska - kostiumy

Sabina Bębenek - make up

Wojciech Rytel - asystent kamery

Michał Salwa - pomoc na planie

JJ - wózek i kran kamerowy

Piramida Film - światło i oświetlacze

Sam film można zobaczyć

TUTAJ

Memory of the last winter

Last winter we went with Patryk to the lakes. Two days off everything: our women, children and work. We wandered around, slept in a hidden hut in the middle of a forest.

On the second day we took camera and went for a walk. When we walked out on a frozen lake there was stillness. We talked only about the most important things.

And then the storm started. I just kept my camera on.

Patryk is a great composer and I'm still waiting for his music to come to this miniature. For now, to celebrate the first snow in Poland this season - a piece of Madredeus. I just can't keep this still in my drawer.

"Face to Face with Chopin" Best Promoting Film Award

The film "Face to Face with Chopin" has won the Best Promoting Film Award in the competition for the best European Funds Project Promotion in Poland. Thank you to all of those involved (see the link to see the full crew), Alicja Knast, the curator and the Chopin Museum team.

The ceremony and presentation of the awarded project will be held on December 14th at Ministry of Regional Development.

"Fantasy on a Theme of Morawski" Screening on Tuesday, Camerimage 2011

The documentary about the amazing, and long forgotten composer Eugeniusz Morawski (1876-1948) will have it's premiere on CAMERIMAGE 2011, at the Festival Centre, Tuesday 22.15, Documentary Screening Room, Opera Nova, Bydgoszcz.

Morawski's three works were recently recorded by Monika Wolinska conductiing Sinfonia Varsovia. The three symphonic poems are beautiful, emotional pieces composed some 100 years ago, although they sound very modern and very film-like. They are inspiring and the film consists of interviews interwoven with memory-like images composed to excerpts of the music.

The Film as descripted on Camerimage website is HERE.

"Fantasy on a Theme of Morawski" premiere on CAMERIMAGE 2011

It's about the time to finally announce that the documentary prepared together with Fundacja Brucknera, with images to the symphonic music of the long forgotten and unusual composer Eugeniusz Morawski, performed by Monika Wolińska and Sinfonia Varsovia will be shown in the documentary section "Images of Music" on Camerimage 2011.

The first image is a memory scene with Maria Cieślak. The second image above comes from the newest shoot with Asia Sieradzan and Filip Wencki's dance performace to Morawski's "Don Kichote".

To read more about Morawski please klick HERE. Please note, that only few of the scores there described have survived.

The full list of the qualified movies is HERE.

"Fantasy on a Theme by Morawski"
Produced by Fundacja Brucknera, OmProductions, Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa, PWM.
Directed by and Cinematography: Maciej Puczyński
With appearance of: Maksymilian Bojarski, Maria Cieślak, Tadeusz Domanowski, Marcin Gmys, Maria Hausmann, Jerzy Kukla, Tomasz Morawski, Asia Sieradzan, Filip Wenski, Monika Wolińska
Graphic Artist: Sebastian Mucha
Make-up and Stylist: Dominika Brzeska
Crane operators: Krzysztof Sudak, Adam Fąfrowicz
Sound Design and Mix: Filip Kuncewicz, Michał Bukała
Help on set: Krzysztof Sudak, Adam Fąfrowicz, Michał Michałkiewicz
With the music of Eugeniusz Morawski performed by Monika Wolińska conducting Sinfonia Varsovia.

Toyota Commercial Series

Avensis Commercial - 1 of 10 movies for Toyota Poland done together with Dobromił Sudak for Adrenaline Motorsport, series of ads including Land Cruiser, Yaris, Hilux,  Verso, Verso-s, Rav4, Auris, Corolla & Prius. Click on any of the names to view. When time allows - a movie cut from all together will appear here. For now - Avensis.

Players: Kasia Kulka & Greg Klukowski
MkUp & Costumes for the series: Sabina Bębenek & Dominika Brzeska
Directed by Dobromił Sudak & Maciej Puczyński
Cinematography by Maciej Puczyński
Additional Cinematography by Mateusz Siwek
Lighting equipment - Piramida Film
Adrenaline Motorsport Productions for Toyota Poland

Feature Screen Test

Same model, yet another location. And definitely - great fun finding appropriate looks. Maybe some video will be cut together soon.

Feature screen test

These screens come from a recent test for an upcoming feature shoot. Taking opportunity to be on the actual set, I asked Michał Kasprzyca to do some actions. Here you can see screens from the footage.

Fantasy on a Theme of Morawski

Maria Cieślak and Max Bojarski as the composer Eugeniusz Morawski and the memory or... just an imagination of his beloved. Also thank you to Adam & Krzysztof for their contribution, to Dominika Brzeska for the Style&MkUp and to Monika and Tadeusz for the inspiration.

Showreel 2011

Never hesitate to contact my agent :-)

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Marta Błaszczyk

marta@yoyofilm.pl

+48 600 317 735

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By the way - thank you to Filip Kuncewicz for recording my steeldrums, mix and the sounds around and to Magda Danilewicz for her vocalise.

Desire for Beauty - artykuł w stopklatka.pl

"Niedawno zakończyły się prace nad “Pragnieniem Piękna" - produkcją filmową, która ma szansę na obalenie tabu w Polsce narosłego wokół tematyki chirurgii plastycznej. O autentyczności oraz wiarygodności tego filmu autorstwa portugalskiego reżysera Miguela Gaudencio mają przemawiać historie czterech bohaterów - ludzi, z którymi upodobnić się [sic] może każdy."

Zapraszamy do lektury!

Kliknij tutaj, aby wyświetlić pełen artykuł w serwisie stopklatka.pl

Penne God on festival tour

Our underwater short to the music of the Sza/Za duo has been selected for the Short Waves - Polish Short Film Festival. Now you can see it in full quality on a big screen. The full route of the festival across Poland and it's program can be viewed here and here.

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Agata Kulesza as Sloane and Marcin Dorociński as Azimoff in a casting scene for a new tv series.

Desire for Beauty (Pragnienie Piękna) - The Cinematic Trailer

Things that mirrors don't show.
The official trailer for Desire for Beauty - the first Polish feature length documentary about beauty and body in out culture.

The official IMDb site:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1828163/

Directed by Miguel Gaudencio

Produced by Alicja Kapturska

Cinematography by Maciej Puczynski

Music by Jorge Quintela

Written by Rafał Samusik & Miguel Gaudencio

Based on an idea by Alicja Kapturska

Production Manager: Marta Wierzbicka

Editor: Tomek Kuckowski

Graphic artist: Sebastian Mucha

Camera operators: Maciej Puczynski, Miguel Gaudencio, Sebastian Mucha, Tomek Kuckowski & Pawel Sroka

Sound: Remigiusz Pilawka
Make Up: Sabina Lewinska-Bebenek

Sza/Za Jura

This screenshot comes from a dance/experimental music video for the duo of Patryk Zakrocki and Paweł Szamburski. On the screen - Iza Chlewińska. This will be part of the upcoming "Sza/Za Zaprasza" DVD.

Lots-of-Fun-Delivery-Man

Firm? Always on time? Here's the one. Kucioł. The best of the best!
Who knows Tomasz, will understand...! Who doesn't - now will have the best opportunity!
We're in competition with this film. Your likes here will make a difference.
And, by the way - it was the latest and the shortest production of the past year.
One day all. 31st of December 2010.

Idea and delivery: Tomasz Kućkowski, Maciej Puczyński, Olga Puczyńska, Wojciech Rytel.

With No Light

On Monday 22nd of November at 6pm in CSW (Conteporary Art Centre), Warsaw, a vernissage of Samanta Stuhr's art installation "With No Light" ("Bez światła") will be held.

Above video, directed by Samanta Stuhr and DoP'd and edited by Maciej Puczyński is an excerpt from this work put into a form of an experimantal short. The characters were played by Magdalena Cielecka and Maciej Stuhr.

To read more follow the link.

Navegadores - 4 Elements in Ethiopia - The Movie

One of Navegadores cars and a bus carrying benches for a school hidden deep in the mountains.

Even though it is hard to believe from what we're used to hear and read, Ethiopia, suffering with droughts and lack of water, has incredible richness of underground springs.

Navegadores Society, an organization founded by Piotr Wikarek, among 3 other tasks, has set it's first goal to combine the richness of water with the richness of the sun energy in the Mission of Alemtena. Last draught the Mission was deprived of fresh water for about three months.

A group of 12 people was followed by a film crew: Sebastian Mucha as Sound Recordist and additional Cameraman, Marta Wierzbicka as Production Manager and 3rd camera. The film Directors: Miguel Gaudencio and Maciej Puczyński. Director of Photography was Maciej Puczyński.

Piotr, the Founder of Navegadores Society on the spot with preparatory works, supported by Tomasz, Kuba and Inka.

The uniqueness of the Navegadores is that the sponsors go for the journey and work themselves on the spot.

Sister Judyta watching the progress of the works.

The Sisters in Alemtena live their simple and devoted lives having for themselves only the most necessary things. They lead a school, a clinic and they serve any current need of their surroundings.

Sewing workshop.

Mounting the solars for the water pump.

Unseen richness of fresh water.

Sister Anna

Surroundings of the Mission called by the locals "Paradise".

Late afternoon some 100km west from Dire Dawa.

Street of Harar.

Following Navegadores.

The release of the movie about the journey, it's struggles and the rewards is planned for 2011.

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DADA/SZAZA Caffe Latte

Today we've shot a performance of SZAZA - the Clarinet / Violin Duo of Patryk Zakrocki and Paweł Szamburski performing together with DADA: dancers Leszek Bzdyl and Katarzyna Chmielewska. Who hasn't been there today, wherever she or he is shall do everything to get there tomorrow at 19.00 to TR in Warsaw. This shots will be part of DVD being prepared.

Desire for Beauty (Pragnienie Piękna)

MotoIntegrator

Two new commercials for MotoIntergrator are being currently post-produced. The release is planned for November. Production management by Piotr Jasiński. Directed and Cinematography by Maciej Puczyński.

Click here to watch on YouTube.

Desire for Beauty (Pragnienie Piękna)

The second production period for the documentary has been completed giving us so far a total of 25 shooting days. This time we've done interviews with about 30 people as well as some nude and mood shots (the operating instruments) and some more fictional parts (coming up on the blog soon).

Photographer Sonia Szóstak

Anthropologist Kasia Przyłuska

Journalist Piotr Najsztub

Actress Julia Pietrucha

 Writer and Singer Elżbieta Jodłowska

Hair Designer  Jaga Hupało

 The Model Patrycja Myszak

The interviews were lead by Marta Ciastoch. The crew were Remigiusz Pilawka (Sound), Sebastian Mucha (MkOf and 3rd camera), Paweł Sroka (Photos), Assistant and Editor Tomek Kućkowski, followed by Bartek and Łukasz from Piramida Film. MkUp by Sabina Lewińska. Production manager was Marta Wierzbicka. Cinematography by Maciej Puczyński. Directed by Miguel Gaudencio.