"He was looking at everything through a viewfinder," Ari Folman's "Waltz with Bashir" Cover Image

"Patrzył na wszystko jakby przez wizjer" - fotografia w "Walcu z Baszirem" Ariego Folmana
"He was looking at everything through a viewfinder," Ari Folman's "Waltz with Bashir"

Author(s): Agnieszka Powierska
Subject(s): Photography, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Ari Folman; Waltz with Bashir; photography; trauma; Sabra and Shatila massacre;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the theme of photography in Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir (2008). It shows the relation between photography and narration as well as similarities between the way the photographic medium functions and the mechanisms of trauma. The author points out that Folman’s documentary film uses the theme of photography as a metaphor for the characters’ emotional distance to what they experience.

  • Issue Year: 16/2015
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 125-131
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish