Как изглеждат на екран абстрактни понятия – случаят Кешловски
How Abstract Concepts Look On The Screen – The Kieślowski Case

Author(s): Petia Alexandrova
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Национална академия за театрално и филмово изкуство »Кр. Сарафов«
Keywords: Keślowski; film metaphor; abstract cinema
Summary/Abstract: The text examines Polish director Krzysztof Keślowski’s attempts to visually express the impossible and the abstract in several of his projects. The first is “Blind Chance”, which will define the variations of human behaviour reduced to their mysterious conditioning. The second is the TV series “Dekalog”, in which Keślowski conveys the meaning of the Ten Commandments of God across ten episodes. The third is the “Three Colours” trilogy, consisting of “Blue”, “White” and “Red”, where he uniquely interprets the concepts of liberty, equality, and fraternity embedded in the colours of the French flag. Keślowski “demeans” these concepts to very concrete contemporary stories with clear moral cases, but also “exalts” their philosophical meaning in vivid metaphors

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