Klausztrofób balett
The Claustrophoby-Dance

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an excerpt from my doctoral thesis, The Transmitted Meaning. Animated Life Strategies behind the Iron Curtain. The dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive picture of the characteristics of Eastern European animated short films from the 1970s and 1980s, regarding both their form and content, highlighting each artists’ style. The focus of the research is the relation between individual and authority in the socio-political context of the film, as well as in the problems approached in these works. The following chapter about the representation of space intends to discuss, through the example of three Polish directors (Zbigniew Rybczyński, Hieronim Neumann, Jerzy Kucia), how creations of a genre – which not only has a high possibility of abstraction, but in common knowledge rarely goes beyond entertainment – turn into documentation.

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