Lech Majewski

Lech Majewski born 30 August 1953 is a Polish film and theatre director writer poet and painter Born in Katowice Poland Majewski studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw In the 1970s he then studied at the National Film School in Łódź notably as a student of Wojciech Has who taught Majewski directing In the early 80s after completing The Knight and as martial law was declared in Poland Majewski emigrated to England and then to the United States where he lived for most of the late Communist eracitation needed In 2006 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted a retrospective of Majewskis work This was their first ever full retrospective of a Polish filmmaker and one of their only ever midcareer retrospectives For that program Majewski created the film eventually called Glass Lips though initially it was known as Blood of a Poet