Entuzjaści z AKF-ów – między prywatnością a polityką
„Enthusiasts” from Amateur Film Clubs – Between privacy and politics

Summary/Abstract: Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings’ project „The Enthusiasts” presented in 2004 at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle reminds the contemporary member of the audience about the Amateur Film Club movement, a mass phenomenon which took place in Polish People’s Republic between 1950s and late 1980s, and which, following the political transformation, was pushed into the margins of the history of Polish cinema. Although the reason for this was, among other things, the relations linking the amateurs with the communist regime, looking at it now, one may conclude that filmmakers participating in the clubs often remained outside of the official sphere of culture, adopting guerrilla tactics of resistance and criticism. „The Enthusiasts” project also reveals the arbitrary nature of the history of Polish cinema, which is based on a canon that excludes phenomena that do not fit in, such as for example the work of the members of the Amateur Film Clubs.

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