Main research directions of theFilm School Krzysztof Kieślowski:
- Television and film directing, cinematography. Issues of methods of analyzing audiovisual works, film narrative, composition of film images, the impact of new technologies on the language and poetics of film, as well as issues of cinematography and director’s skills determining its final shape.
- Artistic photography. The specialty includes research on the history and artistic and technological aspects of contemporary photography. The topics also include the problems of exposing light-sensitive materials, the use of special techniques in shaping artistic visions in photography, as well as new means of artistic communication in digital photography.
- Media studies, audiovisual law. The specialty covers in particular political, economic and legal issues in the functioning of mass media in Poland and European Union countries. It also applies to social communication (including political marketing and PR) and public opinion research towards political changes).
- Cinematography and film production. The specialty includes research on the artistic, organizational and financial aspects of the Polish and European film industry in historical and contemporary terms. It also includes research on the impact of political and economic conditions on the artistic shape of cinema and its national and European identity.