O filmach, które chciały widzieć inaczej. W kręgu Bauhausu
Films Which Wanted to See in a Different Way: In the Bauhaus Circle

Summary/Abstract: The author attempts to define the phenomenon of film technique in the “zero point of cinema”, with reference to selected films made within the circle of Bauhaus’s “new vision” at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s ("Amateurfilm Dessau" by Ivana Tomljenović from 1930 and several films by László Moholy-Nagy, particularly "Architects’ Congress. Film Diary " /1933/). The text concerns the phenomenon based on ignoring technical standards of the medium and/or questioning them to the point of explicit denouncement of the idea of development as a negative reference point, and at times even total rejection of the idea. In the discussed films, visuality perceived as a means to manage the authority of power is contrasted with the right to look (based on “countervisuality”), which is expressed particularly in the staging of seeing the act of looking. It is about a state in which perception practices are not appropriated by visual constructs, since the social machine has not yet arranged the functioning of the photography-film machine; this creates an impression of staging and directorial poverty.

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