Krzysztof Kieslowski’nin “A Short Film About Love” Filminde Bakışın İnşası ve Cinsiyetsizleşmesi
Constructing and Genderness of the Look in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “A Short Film About Love”

Summary/Abstract: Cinema contains the potential of providing satisfaction and pleasure to its audience from various aspects such as identification, catharsis, information and socialization. Another pleasure that cinema provides to its audience is the pleasure of looking. Especially in classical narrative cinema the pleasure and action of looking is dominated by the men, and the look of camera is associated with the male look. While the look is constructed in films with a classical narrative, the man is in the position of prying/ peeping. The woman is presented as being pryed/peeped. While this presentation style positions the man actively, it positions the woman passively. For this reason, the fact that the look belongs to men and that it is organized according to male-dominated codes is an important area of discussion for feminist film studies. In Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “A Short Film About Love”, the relationship between the looking one and being looked one is intertwined, the look is not constructed in the center of sexual identities and becomes genderless. In the study, it is discussed how the look is constructed and gender neutralized in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s A Short Film About Love within the framework of feminist film theories.

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