The AMU Institute of Slavic Studies and the AMU Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts Institute cordially invite you to participate in a lecture by Prof. Elena Trenczewa from the Krystio Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia.
Title of the lecture: Dressing the Invisible in an Evening Wedding
29 January 2026, 1:30 a.m., room 321, Collegium Maius.
This masterclass offers an intimate journey into my creative process as the costume designer for the film “Evening Wedding” tracing the path from that first encounter with the script, when characters exist only as words on a page, to the moment they step into frame fully clothed in meaning. Together, we will explore how visual intuition, emotional resonance, and dramaturgical thinking converge to breathe life into a costume on screen. The session will unfold organically through the stages of creation: script interpretation, character breakdown and costume mapping, and the gradual crystallisation of a visual concept: from the earliest flickers of association and symbolic reference to the deliberate articulation of colour, texture, and materiality. Through close readings of selected scenes, we will reflect on costume as a poetic device: a subtle yet powerful carrier of meaning that reveals not only who characters appear to be, but who they truly are beneath the surface – their unspoken tensions and inner emotional landscapes. Ultimately, this masterclass seeks to illuminate costume design as a vital narrative tool, one deeply woven into a film's visual rhythm and emotional architecture.
The lecture is part of the 2nd Bulgarian Film Review. The project was co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.