Blind chance
As a complement to the colloque organized by Figura (UQAM), we present a series of films that all testify to a way of playing with time that can take the form of uchrony, retrofuturism or even parallel worlds. Cinema, by its very nature, has developed fictions that recompose, destructure and virtualize the time of action and narratives. Several films of the last decades, from Tarantino to Nolan, from Course Lola, course to Kieslowski testify to this fact.
Three versions of the destiny of an undecided young man depending on whether he takes or misses a train.
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Born in 1941 in Warsaw, Krzysztof Kieślowski enrolled in the theater school run by his uncle in his teens. Then he decided to study directing and enter the National Film School in Łódź. It was there that he signed his first short films in the late 1960s. During the following decade, he altern between making numerous documentaries often of a social nature, and his first fiction films. In 1979, his film L'amateur was a great success. With Without End, in 1984, he began a long-standing collaboration with the lawyer Krzysztof Piesiewicz, who from then on co-wrote all his films. His next series of films, The Decalogue, brought him international recognition. In the early 1990s, the trilogy Three Colors - Blue, White, Red who turns out to be the high point of his filmography, as he died prematurely in 1996.
