Daniel Kötter

Neues Theater

Film

Daniel Kötter
 
Neues Theater
(Frame-Analysis, Warsaw, november 13 2011)
 
2012, HD, 43’
 
Daniel Kötter’s single take film  Neues Theater, based on a performance staged in November 2011,examines a moment of fundamental change in the understanding of public space in post-communist Poland.  
 
The workshop hall of the Warsaw city cleaning company MPO will turn into the new cultural centre for Poland’s most internationally renowned theatre company Nowy Teatr, the work of the workers will be replaced by the work of actors and viewers. While the camera slowly travels along the hall, the roles of viewers and actors, of labour and performance, practice and theory keep oscillating.
 
The film stages the “theatre” itself, not as yet another art form (with its specific institutional conditions, market rules and local aesthetic and historic limitations), but as a name for the allegoric space of encounter. 
 
Directed by: Daniel Koetter
Curated by: Anna Ptak
Assistant director: Ewa Kozik
 
MPO workshop hall
Madalińskiego 10/16, Warsaw
Saturday, 12 Nov 2011, at 6pm and 8 pm
Sunday, 13 Nov 2011, at 6pm and 8 pm
Duration: 45 minutes
 
 
 
 
Written and Directed by: Daniel Kötter
 
Cast:
Andrzej Konopka: actor
Marta Ścisłowicz: actress
Anita Sokołowska: actress
Paweł Smagała: actor
Barbara Wysocka: director
Grzegorz Choiński: mechanic
Jakub Pepłowski: mechanic
Adam Radziwanowski: mechanic
Rafał Sonnenburg: mechanic
Marcin Kuczyński: mechanic
Adam Repucha: musician
Paweł Mościcki: theoretician – philosopher
Roman Dziadkiewicz: theoretician – artist
Konrad Pustoła: theoretician – artist
Kuba Mikurda: theoretician – film critic
 
Director of Photography: Karol Czyż
Sound Design by: Marcin Lenarczyk
Music by: Adam Repucha
Edited by: Daniel Kötter
Curated and produced by: Anna Ptak
 
Assistant Director: Ewa Kozik
Art Director: Karolina Pawłowska
Production support (Nowy Teatr): Dominik Skrzypkowski
Production support (MPO): Joanna Mroczek, Marek Pawluk
Production Assistant: Justyna Walczak
Focus puller: Maciej Berski
Production Sound Mixer: Marcin Lenarczyk
Utility Sound Technicians: Michał Marcyniuk, Krzysztof Klósek, Arkadiusz Suchecki
Gaffer: Mikołaj Paprocki
Dolly grip: Marcin Wieczorek
Grips: Michał Szpakowski, Radek Olejniczak, Adrian Michalski
Electricians: Kuba Zawistowski, Marek Zgarski
Stills: Krzysztof Chorąży, Mariusz Michalski
Translations: Ewa Kozik, Agnieszka Dudek
Catering: Barbara Ptak
Video documentation: Cezary Chojnowski