This screening is part of the 17th KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival 

One of the most celebrated Polish artists, Walerian Borowczyk became popular for his early animated films and a series of French productions. From the height of his fame in the 1970s, Borowczyk took a sharp tumble, being labelled as a pornographer for his depictions of subversive eroticism. Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk draws on interviews with the likes of Terry Gilliam, Bertrand Bonello, Andrzej Wajda and Slavoj Žižek in an attempt to unpack the paradoxical enigma of a man who craved transgressive. freedom.