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Śladami Ireny Kamieńskiej
Get PDFThe review of the book \u27Człowiek, zbiorowość, pamięć w filmach dokumentalnych Ireny Kamieńskiej\u27 (2016) by Urszula Tes.Recenzja książki Urszuli Tes "Człowiek, zbiorowość, pamięć w filmach dokumentalnych Ireny Kamieńskiej" (2016)
Dokumentalne etiudy szkolne lat 50. i 60.
No full textThe subject of the article are the poetics of films made in the Lodz Film School in the first years of its existence. Analysis of selected films allows us to trace the metamorphoses of documentary forms which were sometimes parallel to changes being observed in mainstream documentaries, sometimes preceding them, sometimes imitating them. Documentary school films from this period illustrate one of the most important phenomena in the history of Polish documentary cinema: the transition from a persuasive document to an observation film whose poetics are the basis for defining the documentary in Poland.The subject of the article are the poetics of films made in the Lodz Film School in the first years of its existence. Analysis of selected films allows us to trace the metamorphoses of documentary forms which were sometimes parallel to changes being observed in mainstream documentaries, sometimes preceding them, sometimes imitating them. Documentary school films from this period illustrate one of the most important phenomena in the history of Polish documentary cinema: the transition from a persuasive document to an observation film whose poetics are the basis for defining the documentary in Poland
Poetyka etiudy Klary Kochańskiej Lokatorki
No full textThe article provides a comparative analysis of the style and composition of Klara Kochańska’s student short feature film Lodgers. (produced by the Polish Nation Filmschool in Łódź in 2015) as an example of film narrative practices typical of the academic exercises of students today.The article provides a comparative analysis of the style and composition of Klara Kochańska’s student short feature film Lodgers. (produced by the Polish Nation Filmschool in Łódź in 2015) as an example of film narrative practices typical of the academic exercises of students today
Storytelling in VR, CAVES and other emerging forms: An interview with Roderick Coover by Katarzyna Boratyn
No full textThe following interview with Roderick Coover asks how emerging cinematic technologies transform documentary storytelling. Though his early ethnographic projects, such as Concealed Narratives (1996, filmed and photographed in Ghana) and the Harvest (1999, filmed and photographed in France), he created interactive documentary forms that could bridge modes of expression. The works combine field-notes, editing observations, exposition, travel narratives, encounters and interviews with evocative imagery. In works such as Voyage Into The Unknown (2007), Canyonlands (2009), and Estuary (2013). Coover uses scrolling map environments to offer interactive, cinematic experiences in which users create paths among video clips and data; the works explore spatial knowledge and storytelling, national myth-making and land use. In works such as Something That Happened Only Once (2007) and The Last Volcano (2011), he layers stories on animated panoramic settings to present disturbing disjunctions in the expression of place and memory. His recent collaborative works Three Rails Live (2013) and Toxicity: A Climate Change Narrative (2016) are algorithmic. They use code to combine voices and images from a database in an ever-changing order; the works use storytelling and new technologies to address the questions of climate change and industrial waste. In Hearts & Minds: The Interrogations Project, a VR work about US military torture in Iraq, he and his collaborators use immersive arts, storytelling and gaming technologies to introduce challenging accounts of human rights abuse
Życie animowane. Autyzm opowiadany, rysowany, doświadczany
No full textThe article is based on Anabelle Honess Roe’s research in which she analysed the ways that animation is used in Roger Ross Williams’s documentary Life, Animated (2016). It studies how an individual, subjective perspective is evoked in the film. Other documentaries which use animation to tell the story about autism are mentioned as a context.The article is based on Anabelle Honess Roe’s research in which she analysed the ways that animation is used in Roger Ross Williams’s documentary Life, Animated (2016). It studies how an individual, subjective perspective is evoked in the film. Other documentaries which use animation to tell the story about autism are mentioned as a context.
Uwaga, ekran, akcja, reakcja. Czym jest dokument interaktywny – perspektywy rozwoju w Polsce na podstawie badań
No full textInteractive documentaries bring new possibilities of artistic expression. They allow innovative ways of engaging the viewer, personalizing experiences, and building a community. At the same time interactive documentaries bring challenges: the need of new production skills, openness to experimentation, the development of new financing models. There is still a need to create a language to describe new formats. The semantic elusiveity of this area seems to be reflected in its market position. The genre is suspended between film, documentary film and computer games and both the audience and the distributors have difficulties defining it. This text is an attempt to describe what an interactive documentary might be, what sets it apart from other formats, and what’s the viewer’s role in this type of audio-visual formats. We present a few flagship projects from different countries and we look at the Polish audio-visual industry. We conducted a survey, asking Polish artists working on so-called new narratives about their work conditions and the biggest challenges they are facing. The second part of the text covers the results of our study.Interactive documentaries bring new possibilities of artistic expression. They allow innovative ways of engaging the viewer, personalizing experiences, and building a community. At the same time interactive documentaries bring challenges: the need of new production skills, openness to experimentation, the development of new financing models. There is still a need to create a language to describe new formats. The semantic elusiveity of this area seems to be reflected in its market position. The genre is suspended between film, documentary film and computer games and both the audience and the distributors have difficulties defining it. This text is an attempt to describe what an interactive documentary might be, what sets it apart from other formats, and what’s the viewer’s role in this type of audio-visual formats. We present a few flagship projects from different countries and we look at the Polish audio-visual industry. We conducted a survey, asking Polish artists working on so-called new narratives about their work conditions and the biggest challenges they are facing. The second part of the text covers the results of our study
Memory images: Holocaust memory in Balkan cinema(s)
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to analyse the shift of the representational and narrative paradigms of Holocaust memory in the Balkan films that belong to two genres – of melodrama and historicalfiction. The hybrid format positons the Holocaust (hi)stories – already caught between forgetting and remembrance – on the unstable ground between trauma and nostalgia; between history and memory; or facts and fiction. The “regained visibility of the Holocaust grant us access” to Balkan past and present and oblige us to investigate the convergence of the history and the memory into Holocaust master narrative of the Holocaust.“Bringing the dark past to light” in cinema has manifold effect. First, the Balkan wave of Holocaustfilms, with its mixed generic performances, offers new answers to the traditional issues of, both, the ethics of memory and the ethics of representation. Second, the analysis of five films reveals that the trauma from the past – resisting the closure – has the potential to powerfully resonate in the present day political crises. Re-dressing the trauma of the past, the films present the future violence while fulfilling “the Holocaust dictum ‘never forget’”. Eventually, new representational paradigm gives consistency to the Balkan (hi)stories of the past and coherence to the identity in the present. The aim of this paper is to analyse the shift of the representational and narrative paradigms of Holocaust memory in the Balkan films that belong to two genres – of melodrama and historicalfiction. The hybrid format positons the Holocaust (hi)stories – already caught between forgetting and remembrance – on the unstable ground between trauma and nostalgia; between history and memory; or facts and fiction. The “regained visibility of the Holocaust grant us access” to Balkan past and present and oblige us to investigate the convergence of the history and the memory into Holocaust master narrative of the Holocaust.“Bringing the dark past to light” in cinema has manifold effect. First, the Balkan wave of Holocaustfilms, with its mixed generic performances, offers new answers to the traditional issues of, both, the ethics of memory and the ethics of representation. Second, the analysis of five films reveals that the trauma from the past – resisting the closure – has the potential to powerfully resonate in the present day political crises. Re-dressing the trauma of the past, the films present the future violence while fulfilling “the Holocaust dictum ‘never forget’”. Eventually, new representational paradigm gives consistency to the Balkan (hi)stories of the past and coherence to the identity in the present
Turning a blind eye to dying and eroticism: some remarks on contemporary cinema
No full textSince the beginning of the cinematographic industry there has been a visible interest in exploring two themes: death and sex, whereas the motif of dying and sexuality/eroticism seem to be mutually exclusive in mainstream movies to such extent that they rarely appear together on the screen. To shed some light on this cinema tendency of separating eroticism from dying we investigate some of the factors of the phenomenon as well as the ones that could have contributed to the shift we have noticed. The majority of films devoted to the subject of dying and eroticism concentrate on a very limited range of visual and narrative schemes. In our paper we present the main clichés, plot and visual schemes, motifs and narrative techniques in contemporary cinema. Although the unique power of the cinema is “matter of making images seen”, it could be argued that the cinema uses not only the command ‘open your eyes to’, but also the command ‘close your eyes to’. In this way, audiovisual culture closes its eye to the entwinement of the motif of dying with the themes of eroticism.
Niosąc ziemię. Film dokumentalny jako przekład intersemiotyczny
No full textThe article pertains Andrzej Berbecki’s script of a documentary entitled “Niosąc ziemię”, centered on the life and works of Julian Przyboś. The script, unpublished and unmade, was found in the poet’s home archive. The text divides into three parts: the first shows Przyboś in various everyday life circumstances, the second is a discussion about his writings, while the third is an interview with the poet. The script is abundant in references and poem quotes taken from Przyboś’s poetry, endeavouring the intersemiotic translation of his poems.The article pertains Andrzej Berbecki’s script of a documentary entitled “Niosąc ziemię”, centered on the life and works of Julian Przyboś. The script, unpublished and unmade, was found in the poet’s home archive. The text divides into three parts: the first shows Przyboś in various everyday life circumstances, the second is a discussion about his writings, while the third is an interview with the poet. The script is abundant in references and poem quotes taken from Przyboś’s poetry, endeavouring the intersemiotic translation of his poems