Piotr Kletowski

Film Critic, Poland

Piotr Kletowski Phd. (1975). Assistant Professor (International and Political Studies Dep., UJ, Cracow). Specialist of the Film Studies, especially in the field of Authorship and Asian Cinema. Author of several monographs of Takeshi Kitano (Death is my Victory. A Cinema of Takeshi Kitano, 2001), Stanley Kubrick (Film Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick, 2005), Pier Paolo Pasolini (PPP – The Filmworks, 2013) and Asian Cinema (Cinema of the Far West, 2013). Co-author (with Piotr Marecki) of the books-interviews with independent Polish directors such as Andrzej Zulawski (2008), Grzegorz Królikiewicz (2011) and Piotr Szulkin (2012). Film critic in “Kino”, “Rzeczpospolita”, “Projector”. Creator and lecturer of The Open Academy of Japanese Cinema in Andrzej Wajda “Manggha” Center in Cracow. His blog: www.blog.rp.pl/Kletowski.