Myocardial Infarction

director: Wojciech Wiszniewski

original title: Zawał serca

country: Poland

year: 1967

running time: 7 min.

synopsis

An award-winning film at the International Festival of Short Films in Oberhausen in 1968 uses artistic means to document the experience of a heart failure. The film’s rhythm does not work only with the dynamic editing and a disrupted shot composition, but also with sound effects and music illustrating the rapid heart rate of an ill heart. By irony of fate, the debut’s director Wojciech Wiszniewski died of a heart attack aged 34.

biography

Wojciech Wiszniewski (1946–1981) was a Polish documentary filmmaker. While many of his films were censored by authorities, Wiszniewski is seen as one of the most prominent and acclaimed Polish documentary filmmakers of the 1970s. Wiszniewski won numerous awards for his work, and was posthumously awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta, a Polish state order. He graduated from the Leon Schiller National Film, Television, and Theatre School in Łódź.

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director:

Wojciech Wiszniewski

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