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In photography mimetic simplicity is still being stigmatized and one values above all formal sophistication, novelty, originality of expression, not just honesty and truthfulness. That is why I was touched by the sincerity and directness emanating from the work, published in Kwartalnik Fotografia, of British photographer Martin Parr, who has one objective: NO LYING and the result is shocking as it draws a picture of the modern man, flesh and blood, just what he actually is. Quoting Czech art theorist Jindřich Chalupecki, there is nothing more difficult for a modern man than admitting before himself who he really is.

Lech Kurpiewski, commenting on the results of a survey carried out by the magazine Telekinomania, concludes that Poles want cinema to be serial-like. Neither I personally nor any of my friends have ever been asked to take part in such a survey, so I don't think I may be regarded as representative. The responses of the 500 surveyed did make me feel as belonging to a minority. Many claiming that after the fall of Communism in '89 Polish cinema is in a state of deep crisis would be greatly surprised with the fact that the half of the respondents (I wonder what age they are) believe the movies made after the 1989 to be much more interesting than those made before.