Matuszni Family Archive

collection Matuszni Family Archive
authors Antoni Matuszny
starring Anna Brączyk; Barbara Brączyk; Bernadeta Brączyk; Marian Brączyk; Teresa Brączyk; Antoni Matuszny; Ludwik Matuszny; Paulina Matuszna
length 08'46
country Poland
locations Laliki, Poland 
year 1976; 1977
format 8 mm
color black and white
signature PAFD 0015 029
description

Antoni Matuszny, who came from the Beskid village of Laliki, was interested in photography since he was a child. As he recalls, he wanted to save the life of his family and the countryside in the 1970s from oblivion. At the age of thirteen, he bought the first camera, and when he was 24 – the camera of the Soviet Quarz 5.

A native of the Beskid village of Laliki, Antoni Matuszny has been interested in photography since he was a child. As he recalls, he wanted to save the life of his family and the village of the 1970s from oblivion. At the age of thirteen, he bought his first camera, and when he was 24, he bought a Soviet quarz 5 camera.

The film was shot in December 1976 and 1977 in Laliki Kubaszczyki. 

A winter panorama of the area recorded from the window of Antoni’s room. The family shares the wafer at Christmas Eve dinner. Sitting at the Christmas table are Antoni, his parents Paulina and Ludwik Matuszny and sister Anna with husband Marian Brączyk and daughters Barbara, Teresa and Bernadka. After dinner, Marian and his daughters light cold fires. Shots of a deer in the snow.   

(KN, AT)

 

keywords Poland  Laliki Kubaszczyki  Christmas Eve  Christmas holidays  wafer  supper  sparklers  Christmas tree  baubles  village  family life  family 
source of funding Ministry of Culture and National Heritage