Biography
Piotr Rosołowski was born in Dobre Miasto, Poland in 1977. In 2002, he completed his cinematography studies at the Katowice Film School and subsequently worked as cinematographer for a number of short and feature films. In 2004, he was awarded a fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and among other films, worked as a cinematographer for Reto Caffi's graduation film "Auf der Strecke" (2007), which won a Student Academy Award and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category. The documentary feature "Mauerhase" ("Rabbit à la Berlin", DE/PL 2007, Director: Bartek Konopka), which Rosołowski shot and co-authored, was nominated for an Academy Award as well. In 2008, Piotr Rosołowski moved to Berlin and worked mostly in the documentary film sector in Poland and Germany alternately, e.g. for Kerstin Nickig's "Kein Ort" (DE/PL 2008) and Stanisław Mucha's "Die Wahrheit über Dracula" ("The Truth About Dracula", 2010).
He made his directorial debut with "Sztuka znikania" ("The Art of Disappearing", PL/HA 2013, co-directed with Bartek Konopka), a medium-length documentary film about a Haitian voodoo priest, who visited Poland in 1980 in order to deliver the country "from evil". Rosołowski's second work as director and cameraman was "Domino Effekt" ("Domino Effect", PL/DE 2014), co-directed with Elwira Niewiera. This film about a Russian woman, who follows the love of her life to Abkhazia, where people are hostile to her and ostracize her was screened at numerous international festivals and won several awards, e.g. at the Krakow Film Festival, the Budapest International Documentary Festival and at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film to name but a few.
Rosołowski then worked as cinematographer for "Walking Under Water" (GB/DE/PL 2014), "We are still here" (IS/DE/PL 2015), "Peter Handke – Bin im Wald. Kann sein, dass ich mich verspäte..." (2013-2016) and "John Berger oder Die Kunst des Sehens" ("John Berger or The Art of Looking", 2016).
At the Venice International Film Festival 2017, Rosołowski and Niewiera presented their second directorial collaboration: "Der Prinz und der Dybbuk" ("The Prince and the Dybbuk", PL/DE 2017) portrays the renowned Polish-Jewish filmmaker Michał Waszyński, who fled the Nazis during the Second World War and who tried to hide his Jewish origins as well as his homosexuality his whole life. In Venice, the film won the Venice Classics Award for Best Documentary. In June 2018, "Der Prinz und der Dybbuk" was released in German cinemas.