WRITING

 

Devils

I worked as an assistant director on Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, directed by Krzysztof Jasiński. The production, which is a huge undertaking by Teatr Stu, has not been off the air for a dozen or so years.

http://www.encyklopediateatru.pl/przedstawienie/40220/biesy

https://www.scenastu.pl/spektakle/biesy#!news

Mud

As a playwright, I made a theatrical adaptation of the prose of the author Jan Jastrzębski, called Goldap Hrabal. Two years after the premiere - thanks to a grant from MKIDN - the play will be shown in Iran and Armenia.

Directed by Martyna Łyko, premiere 2019.

The Mahatma Café (Writer on Vacation)

In the early 2000s I wrote a play about a soap opera writer who has her own android. It got great reviews at Tadeusz Słobodzianek's playwriting workshops and an honorable mention at the Witkacy pod Strzechy competition in Słupsk. It has not been staged.

[KAWIARNIA MAHATMA]

TRAILER

Trailer of the show Mud

SONG

Song lyrics written for the show Mud

Glątwa "Other Countries" (song promoting the show Mud directed by Martyna Łyko)

REVIEWS

http://www.dziennikteatralny.pl/spektakle/bloto.html

https://wrotapodlasia.pl/pl/kultura/kultura_sztuka/teatrdramatycznyimalwegierkiwbialymstoku/bloto-w-teatrze-dramatycznym.html

https://bialystok.wyborcza.pl/bialystok/7,35241,24599249,bloto-w-teatrze-dramatycznym-czasem-nadal-tkwimy-w-nim-po-uszy.html?disableRedirects=true

https://e-teatr.pl/bloto-s22284

https://goldap.org.pl/2019/03/bloto-jana-jastrzebskiego-spektakl-zostal-cieplo-przyjety-przez-publicznosc/

https://www.wrotapodlasia.pl/pl/kultura/kultura_sztuka/teatrdramatycznyimalwegierkiwbialymstoku/plakaty-teatru-dramatycznego-na-miedzynarodowych-konkursach.html

https://dzieje.pl/kultura-i-sztuka/teatr-dramatyczny-w-bialymstoku-pokaze-swoje-spektakle-w-armenii

https://www.wrotapodlasia.pl/pl/kultura/kultura_sztuka/teatrdramatycznyimalwegierkiwbialymstoku/teatr-dramatyczny-zaprezentuje-spektakle-w-gruzji.html

https://poranny.pl/teatr-dramatyczny-odwiedzil-gruzje-dwa-spektakle-zdobyly-uznanie-publicznosci-w-telawi/ar/c13-15896189

https://dramatyczny.pl/zagralismy-w-armenii/

Co-writer of the animated film by Natalia Brożyńska The ADVISERS OF KING HYDROPS, based on Stanisław Lem's prose for children.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5256940/

The short SF film New Man, which cost 700 PLN to produce, was written and produced by me and the Wu-Hae band. It is a part of Opera Nowa Huta, the award winning multimedia release of the band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=tLCbO5SPZXs&feature=emb_logo

I also worked as a script consultant called script doctor:

https://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=1246932

http://prasaifilm.pl/filmy-fabularne/the-big-leap/194-napisy-koncowe-filmu-the-big-leap

I worked in the screenwriting department at Alvernia Studios. I read hundreds of scripts, participated in preparations of productions realized by the studio. I was a juror at the Polish-American Film Festival Gotham in Progress:

https://pisf.pl/aktualnosci/efekty-gotham-in-progress/#

https://blogs.sydneysbuzz.com/wroclaw-rhymes-with-love-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-part-3-1bb06c78e751

AUDIOSTORIES is a dramatization close to compositional techniques. I have always been interested in this form of expression.

Festival Unsound, I'm reading my book The Overwhelmed Island in the form of a live radio play accompanied by DJ Dawid Szczesny.

https://soundcloud.com/fontemski/przeholowana-wyspa-sluchowisko-live

Commissioned by Radio Lotte from Weimar, as part of the Polen Kommen Festival, we created a radio drama Sny pod sarkofagiem with a creative team headed by composer Robert Zając:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EkBbnk8Y3A

And in 2021, I prepared a trailer-remix of Dreams Under the Sarcophagus:

[DREAMS UNDER SSRCOPHAGUS - REMIX]

I wrote a scenario for a game for the oldest female monastery in Poland Misja Op Abbey Staniątki.

I worked on the team of contractors creating the first historical online computer game Cosmograph for the Wawel Royal Castle. For the first time ever, Wawel legends became an interactive story.

The game is here:
https://wawel.krakow.pl/gra-komputerowa-kosmograf




PRESS:

https://kopalniawiedzy.pl/Zamek-Krolewski-na-Wawelu-gra-komputerowa-Kosmograf-Andrzej-Betlej,33220

https://www.polskieradio.pl/9/9006/Artykul/2669421,Kosmograf-%e2%80%93-poznaj-renesansowy-Wawel-dzieki-grze-komputerowej

https://www.rp.pl/Sztuka/210119494-Wawel-w-grze-on-line.html

https://muzeon.pl/kosmograf-wawelska-gra-dla-nastolatkow/

 

I work with individual clients and groups. College retakes, creative writing courses, or editorial collaboration. Anything to help you spread your wings in your writing flight. I make you think and get good results!

I taught writing courses for graphic designers at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow for three years.

https://grafika.asp.krakow.pl/pisanie-z-sensem-dla-studentow-wydzialu-grafiki/

I am very happy to share my experience and work with authors who are ready to polish their works and prepare them for publication.

I collaborated with Jaroslaw Sterkowicz on the editing of his debut novel, a hip-hop crime story:

https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/4966190/scierwo

I lent my voice by reading excerpts from this novel in the studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCjIOx7wFx0&t=44s

 

STORY

Hauled Island is my niche SF novel from 2005. It tells about a global virus that threatens Europe with Assassins and the musical subculture.

AUDIO

Jacek Opiełka made a trailer for my novel.



Na Festiwalu Unsound z towarzyszeniem dj-a Dawida Szczęsnego odgrywałem słuchowisko live:

[https://soundcloud.com/fontemski/przeholowana-wyspa-sluchowisko-live]

SHORT STORY

I also write short forms - a fable published in literary press:

[O Janku Kopyrajterze]

ESSAYS

Lately, I've grown fond of the essay form. I collaborate with artists to create exhibition names. I happen to write about recent art. (THE RIDER NEVER LEAVES.pdf)

https://siwekfront.pl/?portfolio=siwek2siwek

I also collaborated on another exhibition of work by Marian Siwek, a well-known Polish graphic artist:

https://www.radiokrakow.pl/kultura/stan-wojenny-na-obrazach-mariana-siwka-w-palacu-sztuki/

Title and description of the exhibition for Ania Chmiel:

https://anna-chmiel.tumblr.com/image/152852143000

 

A poet just happens to be a poet, as they say. Sometimes I write poems and even publish them. I am also engaged in creation for children.

Graphic by Darek Vasina in luznyrymeik.pdf for my poem

https://polter.pl/komiks/Luzny-rymek-w-podrozy-c20324

I have published two volumes. I have been fortunate to collaborate with excellent graphic designers Darek Vasina, Ewa Malenczuk, Iwka Siwek-Front.

A selection of poems We Are in Brief in the form of a poetic comic book, graphically designed by Iwka Siwek-Front.

Review of We Are in Brief written by Bronislaw May

[Review of Bronislaw May]

I publish poems in the literary press and in anthologies, and I read poems at authors' evenings.

Ballad of the Red Cross

Ethnographic poem. A record of a tale passed down in the Suwałki region, about the burning of the Red Cross village on the Wigry River and the German wartime action of taking children away from Poles. Family threads. The story was staged in a theatrical form by high school students from Augustów.

[BALLADY OF THE RED CROSS]

POEZIA FOR CHILDREN

I am cultivating the somewhat unfashionable tradition of rhyming writing for children today.

Potworrrna Historia is a rhyming almanac of monsters with graphics by Ewelina Glaz even had its performance at the Comedy Club. Great Heavens by Anna Sowinska, for which I wrote the text, received an honorable mention in the 2016 Clairvoyant contest in illustration. The Telephone to Mr. Jacket is a prose poem with illustrations by Drak Vasina and The Dog in Trieste is a poem with illustrations in the shape of a free-form puzzle for children up to 9 years old.

Almanac of monsters created by illustrator Ewelina Głaz. Published in several copies as a thesis, Potworrrna Historia turned into an improvised performance for children at the Comedy Club in Warsaw.

Anna Sowinska's illustrated prose story for children Great Heavens about approaches in different cultures and religions to... heaven. Awarded an honorable mention in the 2016 Bright and Clear contest by Two Sisters Publishing.

The Tale of Joe Beet is the text of a play purchased from me by a traveling children's theater.

O brave boy.pdf

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I am a copywriter who specializes in names. I invented the name for the show JESTEM W SZOKU on RMF MAXXX, I wrote dozens of spots for the station's launch campaign. I created a German-sounding name for a leading Polish producer of household appliances, a name for an eco-brand in the construction industry and a number of sub-products for smaller brands. I lead the naming process from conversations with clients to implementation. I also deal with storytelling.

For many years I worked with many agencies and art-directors, among others with Krzysztof Tkaczyk and Piotr Jakubowicz.

I wrote slogans, radio spots, I cooperated with ATL, BTL and digital campaigns.

Bank Spoldzielczcy

Radio Krakow

RMF MAXX

I cooperated with ART FM in creating slogan and advertising campaign for Interia.pl stock exchange listing in 2001 and many other campaigns.

I wrote explainer script for Polskie Busa :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcuZqP66l7Q

Sometimes I get special orders, like this order for Brasil agency, dubbing corrections:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_gl56FRFE