Lech Majewski


Lech Majewski is a Polish-American poet, filmmaker, media artist, writer, and theater director. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Biography

Lech Majewski was born in Katowice, Poland.
His experimental film Wojaczek received over 20 international awards and was called by The New York Times a "virtuoso achievement." In 2000, Majewski released Angelus.

Museum exhibitions and video art

Majewski’s works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Louvre, and the Venice Biennale. In 2006, MoMA hosted a retrospective titled Lech Majewski: Conjuring the Moving Image.
His video art series Blood of a Poet premiered at MoMA in 2006 and became part of the 52nd Venice Biennale. The work was later reassembled into the film Glass Lips, praised by The New York Times for its "hypnotic expressiveness."

Later works

Majewski’s 2011 film The Mill and the Cross, starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling, and Michael York, was based on Pieter Bruegel’s painting The Way to Calvary and received critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival. Roger Ebert described it as a "film of great beauty and attention before which words fall silent."
His subsequent works include Onirica / Field of Dogs , a contemporary adaptation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and Valley of the Gods, featuring John Malkovich and Josh Hartnett.

Filmography

  • The Annunciation writer/director
  • The Knight writer/director
  • The Flight of the Spruce Goose writer/director/producer
  • Prisoner of Rio , produced between England and Brazil, a fictionalized story of Ronnie Biggs, mastermind of The Great Train Robbery of 1963 writer/director/producer
  • The Gospel According to Harry writer/director/producer
  • Basquiat writer/producer
  • The Roe's Room writer/director/producer/composer/set designer
  • Accident writer/director/producer
  • Wojaczek writer/director/editor
  • Angelus writer/director/set designer/composer/editor
  • The Garden of Earthly Delights writer/director/producer/composer
  • Glass Lips writer/director/producer/cinematographer/ editor/composer
  • The Mill and the Cross writer/director/producer/cinematographer/set designer/editor/composer
  • Field of Dogs / Onirica writer/director/producer/cinematographer/set designer/editor/composer
  • Valley of the Gods writer/director/producer/cinematographer/set designer/editor/composer
  • Brigitte Bardot Forever writer/director/producer/cinematographer/set designer/editor/composer

    Opera

  • Ubu Rex director
  • Carmen director/producer
  • Pokój Saren composer/librettist/director/producer/set designer/choreographer
  • Carmen director/producer
  • Harnasie / King Roger director/set designer