Поетичният свят на Борис Христов в анимационните и документалните филми на Анри Кулев
Boris Hristov’s poetic world in Anri Koulev’s documentaries and animations

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the teamwork of many years between poet/writer Boris Hristov and director/artist Anri Koulev. The interdependence, transformations and variants of reoccurring images and motifs from the poems in their animated and documentary films are considered. The article promotes the view that when a screenplay is based on a poem, the work on a film is a never-ending dialogue between two imageries, blending insights and insoluble questions, building personal paths and fateful gestures in each new work. The study focuses on translating verses into cinematic poetry in all its components. This article focuses on their teamwork on animations and documentaries. The animated films The Ship (1980) and The Gorgon (1994) and the documentaries The Veda Slovena Mystery (2012) and The Book of Silence (2015) are particularised. The poetic prototypes are translated and presented onscreen in three groups. The first one includes the metaphors that seem to have been directly translated onscreen with their existential material concreteness. They customarily preserve their metaphoricity and symbolism. This approach prevails in The Ship, an animated interpretation of the poem of the same name, preserving the effect and the wholeness of the original plot. The cinematic images of the second group are more freely variable, developing motifs typical of a certain literary original in a new context, organising them in new plot fragments that become an integral part of a new plot. This approach has been fully realised in The Book of Silence. Such motifs typical of Boris Hristov’s poetry book of poems as the words-silence, the end of the world-second coming, bearing the cross, watery doom-the Flood, mother’s arms-grief, creativity-service relationships are readable behind the recognisable cinematic images in Anri Koulev’s films. The characters of Boris Hristov’s poetic world migrating from book to book and film to film: poet, musicians and the conductor of the orchestra, the loner, the uniformed power that be, fish and woman fall into the third group. These occur in each film even if the film is not an adaptation of a particular poem or book, but a screenplay by the poet (The Veda Slovena Mystery, doc.; The Gorgon, animated).

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