CINEMA-TECHNICIANS. THE HISTORY OF AMATEUR FILM IN THE PERIOD OF POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC AS A HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
CINEMA-TECHNICIANS. THE HISTORY OF AMATEUR FILM IN THE PERIOD OF POLISH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC AS A HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: A year ago I have enrolled in Amatorski Klub Filmowy SAWA (Amateur Film Club) in Warsaw, which is one of the most-titled and longest-existing (continuously for almost forty years) AKFs. Moreover it is one of the few still existing clubs of this kind in Poland. From the very beginning, I was stunned how big emphasis is put there on the technical side of filmmaking. At this time, I didn’t know anything about apertures and lens filters, white balance settings or DIN and ASA values. Stepping into the SAWA’s doorstep, I felt that I was entering a completely strange territory without any map or instructions. I’ve already known about a few courses of filmmaking for nonprofessionals , but they mostly had similar curriculums: participants worked on their own projects and in the meantime they learnt about how to find a topic for a film, what is important during screenwriting, and how to shoot and edit the material. But in SAWA dominated a different model of teaching.

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