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About Rafał Syska
- Rafal Syska (born July 18, 1974 in Kielce) is a Polish film historian and writer.
- He is an associate professor in the Audiovisual Arts Department of Jagiellonian University in Cracow.
- At the beginning of his career he was specialized in the phenomenon of violence in cinema (Ph-D thesis Film and Violence.
- Ways of Film Violence Representation), then he focused on strategies of authorship in American cinema (post Ph-D., habilitation dissertation Keep the Distance.
- Film World of Robert Altman).
- At present he is an expert of the contemporary minimalistic slow-cinema, especially its neomodernism tendencies (e.g.
- works of Alexander Sokurov, Béla Tarr, Bruno Dumont, Sarunas Bartas, Fred Kelemen, Tsai Ming-liang, Lisandro Alonso, Carlos Reygadas. He published a book upon the Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos.
- He was also an editor of the dictionary Film Dictionary and now he is a co-editor of a numerous-volume books: Masters of American Cinema and History of Cinema. At the Audiovisual Arts Department, he conducts lectures in courses: Film interpretation, History of world cinema and Ways of contemporary cinema.
- Three times he did the research in the United States, financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and The Kosciuszko Foundation.
- In 2012 he was a scholar visiting at Columbia University in New York Syska was also a grant holder of the Stanislaw Estreicher Foundation, Polityka Weekly Magazine as well as prestigious Foundation for Polish Science and The Kosciuszko Foundation.
- In 2009 he was awarded by Rector of Jagiellonian University and received a nomination to Boleslaw Michalek Prize for the best film studies book.
- In years 1994-2004, he was co-creator of Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival in Kraków and twice he was its co-director.
- He is publishing his essays in the Polish magazines Kino, Kwartalnik filmowy and Didaskalia.
- He is a founder and editor-in-chief of "EKRANy" bi-monthly film magazine.
- In 2014 he was a curator of the exhibition Stanley Kubrick in the National Museum in Crakow.
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