Pamięć (za)chowana w ciele. Prześnione powroty w Pogrzebie kartofla
Memory (pre)served in the body. Overdreamed comeback in the Burial of Potato movie

Summary/Abstract: Jan Jakub Kolski filmed The Burial of Potato just after the year of 1989 – he have decided to tell the full-length story based in rural and postwar Polish reality. The movie reconstructed the story of non-Jew coming back to his family home after being held in the concentration camp. The story referred biographically to Kolski’s grandfather– hence personal and historical narrations merged together, creating visual after-images based in chthonic carnality and recurring, stigmatized experience. The (foreign) body after the camp – subjected to exclusion, dread and disgust – creates the Möbius strip, event impossible to untangle and understand for the Polish rural society. Left with the redundant body, the group of neighbors and used to be friends decides to burry the memory, identity and subject himself.

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