The scientific conference HAS’S PEOPLE will be held at the Lodz Film School on 1, April, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding filmmaker, former School Rector and lecturer Wojciech Jerzy Has.

The conference will be available online at: youtube.com/live/0Gn20OvaqQA

The aim of the conference is to exchange and popularize knowledge about the work of Wojciech Jerzy Has and to attempt an analytical reconstruction of the filmmakers' art; the Master himself as well as the writers, screenwriters, cinematographers, set and costume designers, and actors, with whom he collaborated. The conference aims to bring the director's works closer by examining the various perspectives for filmmakers and researchers.

The conference is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.

The Partner of the event is the Łódź Voivodeship.

Join us!

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

9:00-9:30 – opening of the conference, welcome speeches

Milenia Fiedler, PhD, Rector of the Lodz Film School

Dr Sławomir Rogowski, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, creator of the film "The Manuscript found after years. Wojciech Jerzy Has" (2023)

9:30-11:00 – 1st panel: The power of the film image

Prof. Marcin Maron (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin)
The film images of Wojciech Has's time. Collaboration with Mieczysław Jahoda.

Prof. Małgorzata Jakubowska (Lodz University)
Has's Filmosophy. Subject: Actor

Dr Jarosław Grzechowiak (Lodz Film School)
Has as a teacher.

11:00-11:30 – discussion

11:30-12:00 – coffee-break

12:00-13:30 – 2nd panel: Word and gesture

Dr Piotr Śmiałowski (National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute)
Did Wojciech Jerzy Has need screenwriters?

Dr Michał Oleszczyk (Warsaw University)
"The Private Memoir and Confessions of a Justified Sinner..." as an adaptation of James Hogg's novel

Dr Piotr Pławuszewski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
A Lesson with a Film Moral: About Wojciech Jerzy Has's Documentary "Herbalists from Kamienna Dolina" (1952)

13:30-14:00 – discussion