KUBA MIKURDA

"Escape to the Silver Globe" director.

Director, cinematic researcher, head of the Institute for the Study of Art, and the Film Essay Laboratory at the Łódź Film School. He has worked as a film critic, a journalist, and a publisher (e.g. at Canal+, Ha!art, and Krytyka Polityczna). He is the author, among other works and papers, of Nie-całość. Žižek, Dolar, Zupančič (2015).
As a publisher, he edited Wunderkamera. Kino Terry’ego Gilliama, (2011) and Boro, l’ile d’amour: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk (2015, in collaboration with Kamila Kuc and Michał Oleszczyk). In 2018, he completed his cinematic debut: the feature-length documentary entitled Love Express. Przypadek Waleriana Borowczyka (Love Express: The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk), which took home the Chopin’s Nose Award for best documentary on music and art at the XV Millennium Docs Against Gravity Festival.

Photo by Łukasz Ziomek.