JACEK BŁAWUT
Polish operator and filmmaker.
Born 1950. Individual who likes to think outside the box. Documentalist who deals with a plot.
He claims that he’s not a documentalist really, because “if I would be a documentalist, then I would surely do a film that you wouldn’t carry on watching after not more than 10 minutes”.
His movie adventure he starts as a child in feature films. He debuts as a 10 yr old in Jerzy Szeski’s and Konrad Paradowski’s movie “Marie and the dwarfs”. After a romance with acting he completes the studies on camera department of ŁódĽ’s Film School. Throughout the years he shares the knowledge and experience as a lecturer in various movie schools in Belin, Hannover and Toruń. Currently he works for Andrzej Wajda’s Master Filmmaking School in Warsaw. As another success outside the “with camera or screenplay” in hand he can add his co-releasing the “Movie over the world” Magazine.
Since 2003 he’s a member of European Movie Academy and in 2008 he joined Council of National Film Institute.
Combining the filmmaking, operating and production he made a lot of films. His strong debut was “Abnormals”, where the deeply defective children played themselves. With this unconventional movie he presented himself as an author with his own style. He’s also a creator of the photography for Marek Koterski’s “The day of a freak” and the creator of “Aerial Cavalry”, telenovel documenting the training of soldiers who do their routine military service. This production became a hit in TVP 2 in 2000.
Jacek Bławut is a winner of many awards in operating and filmmaking. In his collection there is 2nd degree award im. Stanisław Wyspiański, award of Culture and Art Minister “Laterna Magica”, “Politics” Passport in “Movie” category and Big Fe-Fe Award he got on “Fe Fe Felliniada” Film Festival in Warsaw.
THE POWER of Bławut’s movies has a source in his attitude towards film characters. Author takes part in their lives in a personal way,he wants to understand their problems and surroundings. He identifies even to the point that regarding to polish film critic Tadeusz Sobolewski in a movie “A rat in a crown” is a story about “a friendship of Bławut with a young alcohol addict”.
Another movie “Not yet evening” is a look at the tough, often treated with silence part of life- getting old. The story of „want for the last onstage performance” in Actor’s House in Skolimów shows people who lived others people’s lives and now have to face theirs. The cast is: Jan Nowicki, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Danuta Szaflarska.
In his last documentary „Virtual War” he enters the international community of players, showing their passion, determination and maybe even the addiction. Once more he wants to show the characters as real as possible, tries to show their inner force. He gets into their heads and tries to understand what does tournament mean for them. It turns out that for some of them it’s only a hobby, for the others it’s life, that takes more and more of it, giving up the relationships and friends. The story has been awarded with An Eagle for the best document of 2012.
