Iluminace 2017, 29(3):27-47 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1529

Phoenix Burning: The Collapse of the Fiction Film Studio and the Educational Film Studio in ŁódŒ in the Early 90s

Konrad Klejsa, Michał Dondzik, Jarosław Grzechowiak
Uniwersytet Łódzki

In the early 1990s, the system of financing Polish film productions based on subsidies from the Ministry of Culture budget collapsed. This resulted in huge financial problems for the film studios located in ŁódŒ: WFF (Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych - Feature Film Studio) and WFO (Wytwórnia Filmów O¶wiatowych - Educational Film Studio). This paper analyses multiple layers of that crisis, including its origins as well as various contradictory ideas from the period as to how the assets and heritage of film institutions situated in the city once called the 'Polish Hollywood' should be managed. These attempts - undertaken simultaneously by the Film Industry Committee in Warsaw and on the local level by the management at both studios - were often contradictory and included efforts to merge both entities into one state-funded institution as well as striving toward their full privatisation. The findings are based on examinations of the local press, archival research, as well as in-depth interviews with employees in the audio-visual sector.

Keywords: Polish film production, Polish film studios, Polish film institutions, privatisation, audiovisual sector

Published: September 1, 2017  Show citation

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Klejsa, K., Dondzik, M., & Grzechowiak, J. (2017). Phoenix Burning: The Collapse of the Fiction Film Studio and the Educational Film Studio in ŁódŒ in the Early 90s. Iluminace, 29(3), 27-47. doi: 10.58193/ilu.1529
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