Cięcie Kmicica
Kmicic’s Cut

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes Tomasz Kozak’s video Klasztor Inversus (Cloister Inversus; 2003), inwhich selected scenes from the film adaptation of Sienkiewicz’s The Trilogy mix with agay pornographic film. In this way, Kozak exposes the perverse nature of national culture.It is anality that enables one to negate the obligation to reproduce the conservativecodes of Polish culture, opening up to the creation of non-traditional, non-patriarchal,and non-heteronormative social practices. Viewing Kozak’s video through the prismof various types of cuts – montage, anal, censorial – provokes reflection on cinema asa medium that not so much satisfies the desire for domination but rather promisesmasochistic jouissance.

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