Workshop of the Film Form (WFF) (1970)
Poland

"The Film Form Workshop (also The Film Form Studio; Warsztat Formy Filmowej, WFF) was a group of avant-garde artists who were working at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland, between 1970 and 1977. As pioneers of video art in Poland and structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe, the artists refused classical narrative and traditional film media, working instead somewhere between cinematography and contemporary art.

The group was created in 1970 as a section of a science club at the Łódź film school. The Workshop was made up of students and graduates of the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre who were disappointed by its curriculum and teaching methods.

The founders of the group included Wojciech Bruszewski, Paweł Kwiek, Józef Robakowski, Andrzej Różycki, and Zbigniew Rybczyński. They were subsequently joined by Ryszard Waśko, Jan Freda, Marek Koterski, Ryszard Lenczewski, Janusz Połom, Jacek Łomnicki, Antoni Mikołajczyk, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Krzysztof Krauze, Wacław Antczak. Robakowski, Kwiek, Bruszewski and Waśko are considered to be its most significant members."
(Source, website, Monoskop)

"Workshop began in 1970 from the initiative of a group of students and graduates of Lodz Film,Tv and Theatre School.
Together with the film makers there are in the Workshop painters, musicians, cameramen, poets, technicians...

Workshop realizes films,recordings and tv translations, sound programmes, art exhibitions, different kind of events and artistic interventions...
Workshop also follows the theoretical and critical activity.
It examines and aims at broadening the possibilities of the audiovisual arts.

Workshop does not represent any commercial activity and their makers work totally gratuitously."
(Source: Warsztat Formy Filmowej, "Warsztat Formy Filmowej", Poland: Łódź, 1975, p.4)

Work :

• Television Transmission (1973)