Ciało w filmowym neomodernizmie
The body in film neo-modernism

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the analysis of methods of presenting the body of actors and protagonists in contemporary independent cinema. The author chose three examples of artistic strategies presented by Bruno Dumont, Albert Serra and Alexander Sokurov – directors belonging to the neo-modernist trend in film. The presence of the body of an actor and protagonist is for each of them a target of interesting activities, although for each of them this results from different world-views and aesthetic notions. What they have in common is the resistance towards the classical techniques of psychological acting, the abandonment of conventional emotiveness, individualisation and personalisation of the hero and the intensive observation of the idiosyncrasies of actors and protagonists. To this, one must add the key topic of the intimacy of experience and the exploration of the physiological sphere, as well as the motif of physical sacrifice and sacralisation of the body.

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