Scene from "Academy of Mr Kleks / Akademia Pana Kleksa", photo by: Romuald Pieńkowski / Filmoteka Narodowa
Electronic musician, DJ and music producer Andy Votel draws on images, music and sound from the original 1980s Polish film trilogy, Pan Kleks. The concert of subversive, unsettlingly funny mixes crowns the KINOTEKA short films competition for cinematographic works inspired by Roman Polański
Andy Votel pays homage to the Pan Kleks series of films for children, which were loved by Poland's young generation in the 1980s. Drawing on the films' audio and visual richness, Votel selects and subverts, to coax their darker side to the surface and create something wholly original, unsettling and - at times - weirdly humorous. The Pan Kleks trilogy was scored by Andrzej Korzyński, a Warsaw composer whose neglected catalogue Votel is currently releasing on his Finders Keepers label, including music written for director Andrzej Żuławski's incredible film Possesion.
Kleksploitation is programmed in both the 11th Kinoteka Polish Film Festival and the Barbican’s Contemporary Music series.
The event is commissioned by the Unsound electronic-music festival and produced by the Barbican in association with the Polish Cultural Institute in London. The Barbican Contemporary Music centre is London’s home to the boldest new jazz, world, folk, contemporary classical, rock, pop and electronic music from across the globe.
Running times
7.15 pm - doors ppen
7.30 pm - Welcoming speech by Roland Chojnacki, Director of the Polish Cultural Institute, London.
7.35 pm - Presentation of 2 awards to the winners of the KINOTEKA short films competition for films inspired by Roman Polański
7.50 pm - Concert begins
For more information and booking, see: www.barbican.org.uk
Paulina Schlosser, source: www.barbican.org.uk, press release