Agnieszka Piotrowska (born 1967) is a Polish-born author, academic and award-winning filmmaker, best known for her documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower (2008),[1][2] about women who fall in love with objects.
Only four scripts were commissioned, Socrates by Howard Brenton, Spinoza by Tariq Ali, Locke by David Edgar and Wittgenstein by Terry Eagleton.
[13] Piotrowska's 1995 BBC documentary Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski,[14][15] about the Polish-American writer who committed suicide in New York, included a rare interview with Roman Polanski.
[27] Another photographer, David Alan Harvey was the subject of Piotrowska's 2002 film for National Geographic Channel's "True Originals" series.
[30] Killeen attempted to stop the broadcast of the documentary but he later changed his mind and even gave permission to Piotrowska to use their correspondence in her academic writing.
[3] In April 2014 she directed "Lovers in Time", a play by Zimbabwean writer Blessing Hungwe, at the Harare International Festival of the Arts.
The film entitled "Lovers in Time or how we didn't get arrested in Harare" opened a discussion on freedom of speech and cultural sensitivity and screened internationally.
[47] When Escape was selected for the 2017 Zanzibar International Film Festival its screening was banned at the last minute, allegedly for its erotic content, resulting in some media controversies.
[48] In 2018 Piotrowska staged and adapted the play ″Finding Temeraire″ [49] by Stanley Makuwe, an award-winning Zimbabwean playwright, resulting in the experimental film entitled Repented (2019) which explores how political history and external circumstances can profoundly impact an intimate personal relationship.