INVISIBLE COLLEGE
presents
DEKALOG
11-day intensive • December 15-24 + December 30
THE REDDENING culminates with an optional 11-day intensive on Krysztof Kieślowski's DEKALOG, encompassing the Winter Solstice, December 15-24, with a gathering to integrate the experience on December 30.
This course can also be taken on its own-- or at a discount for participants in THE REDDENING
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This masterwork by Krzysztof Kieślowski is one of the twentieth century’s greatest achievements in visual storytelling.
Originally made for Polish television, Dekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human.
Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.
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— THE CRITERION COLLECTION
Why THE DEKALOG and why now?
Because it deals questions of moral and spiritual truth without ever once flattening its characters or their struggles into black-and-white categorizations.
Because it is unflinchingly emotional -- in the delineation of its characters, in the way it works with music, color, timing, and subltety.
Because it confronts the impulse to bypass-- or transcend-- human impulse digitally in ways that resonate uncannily to the present moment.
And it also wrestles with the differences and relations between individual rage and state violence.
Because it was made for everyone in a society at a particular inflection point, facing collapse.
Roger Ebert on The Dekalog: "it shows that the Ten Commandments are less like science and more like art..."
These films are what Kafka said, in 1904, that a book should be:
an "axe for the frozen sea inside us."
December 19-24 • December 30
ten watch sessions: virtual screening + live discussion
+ a culminating integration session ahead of the new year
infinite replay
