Fenomenologia obrazów filmowych. Wideoesej jako krytyka tematyczna i sztuka interpretacji
Phenomenology of Film Images. Video Essay as a Thematic Criticism and Art of Interpretation

Summary/Abstract: The text is an attempt to adapt the tradition of French thematic criticism to the needs of the analysis of basic techniques and the poetics of film essays. The common part of the compared discourses is the authors’ interest in searching for the “theme” characteristic of the poet/director’s work treated as a whole. This “theme” is specially defined here, mainly through the prism of its obsessive intensity and countable repetitions in a given poetic/film creativity. In the article devoted to film essay (as a genre of interpretative statements about a film/director’s work), the topic connected with the problem of film interpretation was raised: how is its non-verbal (that is film) form possible? The examples analysed in the text are mainly selected video essays by Kogonada.

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