Zofia Dwornik: Becoming a Female Film Editor

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  • Paulina Kwiatkowska University of Warsaw

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https://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2020.23.05

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Zofia Dwornik, film editing, Polish cinema after WWII, Film School in Łódź, women’s cinema

Abstrakt

In this article the author intends to recall the figure of Zofia Dwornik, one of the most appreciated and nowadays rather forgotten female film editors of post-war communist Poland. For the twenty-five years of her creative activity, Dwornik cooperated in the production of more than thirty films with the most important directors of the Polish cinema in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In the Polish post-war cinema, the profession of film editor was strongly feminised. In the case of Dwornik, her decision to choose this particular profession was, however, based on additional objective considerations, closely related to the context of the Stalinist period in Poland, and was not her first choice of career – she had wanted to become a film director. In this article the author takes a closer look not so much at the achievements of Dwornik in the 1960s and 70s, but at the complex circumstances that influenced her later career. Therefore, the author tries to reconstruct the most important moments in Dwornik’s student and professional life in the first years after WWII and analyse one of the film études she made at the Film School in Łódź, in order to examine the reasons for her decision to become a film editor. This allows also to formulate some hypotheses how her career might have developed, had she been given the chance to graduate and try her hand at directing.

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2020-08-24

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Kwiatkowska, P. (2020). Zofia Dwornik: Becoming a Female Film Editor. Panoptikum, (23), 63–76. https://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2020.23.05

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