Such Songs I Seek

The Small Cinema * Saturday (August 1, 2009) * 4:00 p.m.

Such Songs I Seek, Poland, Ukraine (PL-UA) 2008, colour, 35 min.

dir Jagna Knittel

Two words: young people from the city, who got to Polesie in search of archaic, old songs and village artists, singers from Polesie villages Perebrody and Stari Koni. Film presents village singers as seen by “newcomers”.

Jaga Knittel (1959)

Ethnologist, journalist. Since 11 years she gathers materials about and plays traditional music – Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish. She sings, among others, in a group “Muzyka drogi” (Music of a Road). “Such Songs I Seek” is the first film realized by her.