Jeles András anamorfózisai
András Jeles’s Anamorphoses

Summary/Abstract: András Jeles’s Sinister Shadow (A rossz árnyék, 2017) resorts to intermedial techniques by transposing the painterly figuration of anamorphosis to the medium of film. By integrating Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Ambassadors, together with its interpretive aura, within the film, Jeles devises an anamorphic narrative in which the painterly figuration gains an overarching signification, intended to effect a surplus value of expressivity that film is capable of only through the other arts. Jeles resorts to techniques such as masking the image, visual and sound collage as well as stylized theatrical and painterly compositions in order to maintain the anamorphic perspective, that is, a “continuous rupture” in the film’s medial perception. In this way, he translates his vision of humanity into an anamorphic way of narration: he creates an askew perspective from which the filmic image emerges as a surreal stage in between the macabre and the sublime, the unwatchable and the visually pleasurable.

• Details
• Contents