The Death of Body: A Question about Man. Krzysztof Zanussi’s " Life as a Sexually Transmitted Terminal Disease" Cover Image

Śmierć ciała. Pytanie o człowieka. "Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową" Krzysztofa Zanussiego
The Death of Body: A Question about Man. Krzysztof Zanussi’s " Life as a Sexually Transmitted Terminal Disease"

Author(s): Waldemar Frąc
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Death; body

Summary/Abstract: Frąc points to the capability of the cinema to record a metamorphosis of the materiality of the world and body. But there is a barrier the eye cannot go beyond. It is a state of illness interpreted as strangeness inside one’s body. The issue is raised in Zanussi’s film. It tells a story of man’s inevitable striving towards death that cannot be comprehended although can be shown because indefinability is part of the essence of humanity.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 47-48
  • Page Range: 229-233
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish