"Landscape Film": o pewnym epizodzie w historii brytyjskiego filmu awangardowego
"Landscape Film": On a Certain Episode in the History of British Avant-garde Film

Summary/Abstract: The article concentrates on the phenomenon of British landscape film of the 1970s. The genre emerged during the dominance of structural tendency among avant-garde film-makers; landscape films mitigated the radical perspective of structural cinema with the pleasure derived from visual qualities of the film image. As Deke Dusinberre points out, “they assert the illusionism of cinema through the sensuality of the landscape imagery, and simultaneously assert the material nature of the representational process which sustains that illusionism”. The author, following avant-garde film historian David Curtis, begins with description of how landscape was used by early film-makers, then briefly discusses the context of structural film as characterised by P. Adams Sitney and Peter Gidal. next Rode sketches the changes in radical filmmaking brought about by landscape film and shortly analyses some of the works of two most important landscape artists of the time: William Raban and Chris Welsby.

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