Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Poland/1968/16mins
A young couple travelling by motorbike leave a lake campsite at the same time as a bus load of men. They lose the tent along the road which is picked up by the men in the bus, who offer a trade: the tent for the girl
A rare opportunity to see one of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s (DECALOG, THREE COLOURS TRILOGY) first fiction films – a graduation short from the Lodz Film School in Poland (whose students also included Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi) made when he was just 26 years old.
I haven't got a great talent for films. Orson Welles, for example, managed to achieve this at the age of twenty-four or twenty-six when he made 'Citizen Kane' and, with his first film, climbed to the top, the highest possible peak in cinema. But I'll need to take all my life to get there and I never will. I know that perfectly well. I just keep on going.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Film courtesy of Lodz Film School
Commentary by Marek Haltof, author of The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance. Recorded in Marquette, Michigan
