Looking Through Non-human Eyes: The Case of „Rabbit à la Berlin" Cover Image

Patrząc nie-ludzkimi oczami: przypadek „Królika po berlińsku”
Looking Through Non-human Eyes: The Case of „Rabbit à la Berlin"

Author(s): Agata Janikowska
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: posthumanism; animal studies; the Berlin Wall;animal history;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an analysis of Bartosz Konopka’s movie "Rabbit à la Berlin" (2009), which is interpreted by the author as an manifestation of the entanglement of human and non-human narratives. The text addresses the problem of the potential of film art for creating non-anthropocentric ways of seeing the world. The considerations refer to transdisciplinary animal studies, particularly to animal history as a subfield of history. The events related to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, as seen through the eyes of rabbits, allow the author to interpret the picture from a post-humanist perspective, emphasizing the significance of the film storytelling in the search for new ways of perceiving the world, free from human ego- and anthropocentrism.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 110
  • Page Range: 156-171
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish