Seweryn Kuśmierczyk

Filmologist and culturologist SEWERYN KUŚMIERCZYK – is a professor at the University of Warsaw, where he is employed at the Department of Polish Culture of the Faculty of Polish Studies. He is the founder of a scientific school of film studies that focuses on the original method of anthropological-morphological analysis of the film work. His research areas include auteur cinematography, analysis and interpretation of the film work (with particular emphasis on the anthropological perspective), the history of Polish cinematography, and film photography. Seweryn Kuśmierczyk is the author of the monographs Lost on the Way. The Feature Film as an Image of the Inner Experience of a Character (1999), The Book of Films by Andrei Tarkovsky (2012), The Hero’s Journey in a Polish Feature Film (2014) and Tarkovsky. Encyclopaedia (2023). He is the scientific editor of the book series Monographs of Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, and the translator and author of accompanying studies in books by Andrei Tarkovsky: The Tolstoy Complex (1989) and Sculpting in Time (1991, 2007), as well as the first complete edition of Tarkovsky’s Diaries and Screenplays (1998).