Rafał Syska

Syska was also a grant holder of the Kosciuszko Foundation, Stanislaw Estreicher Foundation, Polityka Weekly Magazine and Foundation for Polish Science. He was a scholar visitin at Columbia University in New York in 2012. In years 1994-2004, he was co-creator of Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival in Kraków and twice he was its deputy director. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of "EKRANy" bi-monthly film magazine. Syska was a curator of the exhibition Stanley Kubrick (2014) and Andrzej Wajda (2019) - both in the National Museum in Cracow. Since 2016 he is the director of the National Centre for Film Culture in Lodz. He is also a member of Kyoto-Krakow Foundation and ICOM International council of museums. In 2016 he was a chairman of the board of National Film Archive in Warsaw.

Rafał Syska (born July 18, 1974 in Kielce) is a Polish film historian and associate professor in the Audiovisual Arts Department of Jagiellonian University in Cracow. First he was specialized in the phenomenon of violence in cinema (Ph-D thesis Film and Violence. Ways of Film Violence Representation), then he focused on strategies of authorship in American cinema (post Ph-D., habilitation dissertation Keep the Distance. Film World of Robert Altman). At present he is an expert of the contemporary minimalistic slow-cinema, especially its neomodernism tendencies (e.g. works of Theo Angelopoulos, Alexander Sokurov, Béla Tarr, Bruno Dumont, Sarunas Bartas, Fred Kelemen, Tsai Ming-liang, Lisandro Alonso, Carlos Reygadas.