Daniel Bird

Daniel Bird

Daniel Bird is a writer, filmmaker, and one of the world’s leading scholars on Eastern European cult cinema. He has curated numerous retrospectives, overseen film restorations, participated in DVD commentaries and is best known as the biographer of both Walerian Borowczyk and Andrzej Żuławski. Daniel Bird first interviewed Zulawski for Eyeball magazine with Stephen Thrower back in 1997. He organised ‘A Weekend with Andrzej Zulawski’, the first Anglo-phone overview of Zulawski’s films, at the Cine Lumiere in 1998. The following year he visited the set of Zulawski’s La fidelite in Paris and worked with with Anchor Bay Entertainment to release Possession on DVD in the U.S., for which he also moderated a commentary track with the director. Over the years he continued to work with Zulawski, liaising with festivals, distributors and producers on retrospectives, DVD releases and film projects. Last year he made the English subtitles for Zulawski’s Cosmos and produced a restoration of On the Silver Globe.


Upcoming Lectures

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  • Previous Lectures

    BASHA: FILM POSTERS BASHA: FILM POSTERS
    Fri. Jul. 26, 2013 - Sun. Aug. 4, 2013 - 12:00 am GMT
    Vulgar Structures; or Andrzej Zulawski's Love Triangles Vulgar Structures; or Andrzej Zulawski's Love Triangles
    Thu. Oct. 13, 2016 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT