„Jak robić obrazy bielsze od białych”? Listy Franciszki Themerson i Ireny Grosz

Author(s): Honorata Sroka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 03/2020

This article discusses the letters between Franciszka Themerson and Irena Grosz. The manuscripts stored in the Themersons Archive at the National Library in Warsaw and the library of the Museum of Art in Łódź are the correspondence from 1959–1979. The close relationship between the avant-garde painter Themerson and the journalist Grosz allowed, most of all, for studying the intimist writings of Franciszka and drawing attention to the autobiographical overtone of her artistic work.

„Ki őrzi meg az internetet?” A digitális archiválás magyar vonatkozásai

Author(s): Árpád Péter / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2021

In our article, we analyse the book edited by Tamás Tófalvy: A magyar internet történetei (Aspects of the history of the Hungarian internet). Typotex Publishing House, Budapest, 2021. This volume publishes the second cycle of a series of conferencesorganized on the “histories” of the Hungarian Internet. The volume is divided into four large chapters. “I. Information, society”,“II. Web, archiving”, “III. Pop, culture”, “ IV. Content, services”. In the 14 articles contained in this volume, the authors studythe problems of preserving or losing information on the “Hungarian Internet”, the possibilities of archiving by Hungarian and international non-governmental organizations (ex. Wayback Machine), but also investigates the issue of political interference in “the collective digital memory” of the Hungarian culture.

„Kiben mi dolgozik” – beszélgetés Simó Emese színésszel

Author(s): Andrea Zsigmond / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2020

Actress Emese Simó, who was interviewed by Andrea Zsigmond, offers an account about her roles taken up within the Waiting Room Project and the years spent at the Csiky Gergely Hungarian State Theatre of Temesvár/Timişoara. The interview also deals with some aspects related to the existential differences between the independent theatre and the traditional stone theatre, the beginnings of her career as an actor, and her current search for new ways of expression.

„Kicsomagolok, valahol nagyon messze innen” – beszélgetés Sebők Maya színésszel

Author(s): Krisztina Kiss / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2020

Maya Sebők has participated in the Waiting Room Project for nine years and continues her career as a freelancer from January 2020. Meanwhile, she is also involved in promoting young talents, as well as in “mapping” her own creative personality. Our reporter, Krisztina Kiss has asked the young theatre-maker, often considered “weird”, about her years spent at the Waiting Room Project, about independence, moving, and the passing of time.

„Kłopotliwe” ciała. Strategie przedstawiania fizycznej „anormalności” we współczesnym filmie fikcji

Author(s): Adam Cybulski / Language(s): Polish

Within disability studies, discipline developing for the last thirty years, subject of particular interest were audio-visual representations of physical ‘abnormality’. However, in scientific literature it is storyline and generally understood occurrences that are analysed: personal traits of disabled protagonist, his or her social status, actions, introspections or his or her relationship with the society. The question of stylistic and narration devices, and the aesthetics of display-oriented construction of defectiveness are usually not taken into consideration. In order to add to and broaden this perspective author of this dissertation used selected methods of Neoformalism and Cognitive film theory. Strategy of narration, diegetic dominant and viewer engagement helped in exhibiting how defective bodies were used as visual attractions, distinguishing four modes of contemporary storytelling discussed in context of a long tradition of portraying visible dissimilarities and explaining methods of managing ‘troublesome’ bodies with instances of narrating.

„Können Tränen meiner Wangen nichts erlangen?“ Manifestationen der Traurigkeit in der deutschen Musik des 18. Jahrhunderts

Author(s): Tobiasz Janikowski / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2020

Emotions and feelings, such as sadness, disappointment or doubt, are not only a characteristic feature of the narrative present in the widely understood German-language literature. Manifestations of various emotional states can undoubtedly be found in numerous vocal and instrumental works, whose period of splendor appears during the 18th century, in particular in the decades within the time frame set by the St. John Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 245 (1724) and the majestic oratorios The Creation and The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross by Joseph Haydn (1796-98). The purpose of this article is to show the affective potential of selected texts in the orbit of the impact of the phenomenon of musi-cal rhetoric and to illuminate the works of famous German composers of the 18th century, placed in a broader cultural and literary context.

„Könyvek, Judit – könyvek, könyvek”

Author(s): Tamás Jakabffy / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 810/2021

„Korfulamu” – podróże przez czas w kinie Theodorosa Angelopoulosa

Author(s): Adam Cichoń / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 107/2019

An important figure in the work of Theodoros Angelopoulos is the refugee, and many of his characters have just such a status. Importantly however they consider themselves refugees regardless of the place in which they find themselves. They are condemned to travel, to an everlasting journey from place to place in search of home they covet so much. Angelopoulos emphasized that his films are also a search or a quest and that is why each of them is a journey. In his work this subject is largely related to the category of time. We should understand travel in the broadest sense possible, also as human life. The director devotes great attention to the passage of time, as evidenced by such films as "Eternity and a Day or Voyage to Cythera". The interrelation of time and the theme of travel seems to be one of the deepest intentions of the Greek artist. In the article, Cichoń attempts to interpret Angelopoulos’ films as specific journeys through time.

„Królicza nora”, czyli ramy spotkania w teatrze Complicité

Author(s): Tomasz Wiśniewski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1-2/2021

„Letnio i kulturalnie”

Author(s): Julia Niedziejko / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 161/2021

„Live Factory 2: Warhol by Lupa”

Wystawa – instalacja – spektakl?

Author(s): Ada Ruszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 159/2020

The article, which is a part of the author’s master thesis, aims to analyze the installation in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków – Live Factory 2: Warhol by Lupa. The installation is based on the stage design for Krystian Lupa's theatre production Factory 2 which was inspired by the concept of Andy Warhol's Silver Factory. The article attempts to define the relationship between Live Factory 2, Factory 2 and Warhol’s Factory as well as the status and the character of Live Factory 2 and its potential of being the information about Lupa's performance.

„Lost in translation”, czyli co się kryje między słowami pokrytymi patyną historii

Author(s): Anna Miller-Klejsa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 108/2019

Review of the book by Agata Hołobut and Monika Woźniak, "Historia na ekranie. Gatunek filmowy a przekład audiowizualny" ["History on the screen. Film genre and audiovisual translation"] (2018). The authors study the impact of historical film on the specificity of audiovisual translation, analysing English-language (British and American) dialogue lists of selected feature films and historical series as well as their available Polish and Italian translations (dubbing, recorded audio commentaries, subtitles). The book successfully combines linguistic, film and stylometric analysis tools.

„Male” and „Female” Space in Greek Vase Painting on Bulgarian Lands (SYMPOSIUM and GYNAECEUM)

„Male” and „Female” Space in Greek Vase Painting on Bulgarian Lands (SYMPOSIUM and GYNAECEUM)

Author(s): Sasha Lozanova / Language(s): English / Issue: 18/2009

„Mi nekem a valóság?”

Author(s): Andrea Pass / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2016

An essay on the process of creating productions.

„Między dawnymi i młodszymi laty” – neo(animistyczne) i neo(pogańskie) tropy w kinie polskim

Author(s): Magdalena Podsiadło / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 114/2021

The perspective of new animism offers an approach to the subjectivity and the relation between nature and culture, the human and non-human, as well as the animate and the inanimate, that differs from the one founded on the Judeo-Christian tradition. Marginal in Polish culture, this current can be found in film representations of paganism that nevertheless lend it the status of a repressed phenomenon or one tamed by the context of Christianity. The authors of contemporary Polish films that refer to this tradition look for an alternative to a world that is hierarchical, dualistic and based on an anthropocentric model. They connect with paganism though their egalitarian attitude towards animals (Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor), respect for the agency of plants (Agnieszka Holland’s Charlatan), belief in spirits beyond the Christian context (Małgorzata Szumowska’s Never Gonna Snow Again and Body), awareness of the natural environment (Katarzyna Klimkiewicz and Dominga Sotomayor Castillos’s La Isla) or reference to tribal cultures (Zbigniew Libera’s Walser). At the same time, these works re-evaluate said tradition, treating it as a “rescue perspective” in the face of the current civilizational crisis.

„Minden kaland volt”. Beszélgetés az idén 90 éves Novák Ferenc Tatával

Author(s): Iringó Tóth Gödri / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 830/2021

„Mój świat wypełnia ogień i krew” – „Mad Max: Na drodze gniewu” i semantyczne gry z postapokaliptycznym brudem

Author(s): Marcin Kowalczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 114/2021

The conventions of the post-apocalyptic cinema enforce a specific aesthetics, and its visual dominant is often dirt. This element is usually contrasted with the alleged purity of the world before a catastrophe. Mad Max: Fury Road (dir. George Miller, 2015) seems to be an example of this strategy. However, the article shows that Miller’s work reveals an interesting ambivalence: suggesting the legitimacy of the dirt-purity opposition typical of the convention, the film simultaneously undermines it. Therefore, in Mad Max: Fury Road we can see three different systems of meaning based on these categories. The first one is a consequence of the accepted convention, the next two show the original author’s vision and represent a successful artistic attempt to overcome the typical perception of some features of the post-apocalyptic world. The article uses elements of Roland Barthes’s semiotic analysis of film, as well as Mary Douglas’s findings on the category of dirt and purity in culture.

„Na miłość boską, nie »róbcie« sztuki!”

Author(s): Adam Molenda / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

„Na wylot” Grzegorza Królikiewicza – produkcja, dystrybucja i recepcja

Author(s): Michał Dondzik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 108/2019

The article is devoted to "Through and Through" ("Na wylot", 1972) – the debut feature film of Grzegorz Królikiewicz. The author, basing his argument on the materials from the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, New Files Archive and private collections, carefully reconstructs the production, distribution and promotional contexts of the film, also embedding them in a political context. Using the accounts of witnesses, excerpts from the film and daily press, he demonstrates, that although the critics, on balance, rated the film highly, it enjoyed only moderate interest from the audience, often meeting with very sharp reactions. The text resembles the film’s receptive context, heated discussions around it, violent replicas of both the critics and the director himself. Thanks to such extensive documentation, the text also refutes some myths that for years have grown around Królikiewicz’s work.

„Naszym światem włada nieczułość”

#MeToo i transformacja

Author(s): Agata Adamiecka-Sitek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 161/2021

The article analyzes the transformational potential of the #MeToo movement in terms of personal experience, institutional, and social transformations, looking first of all at the dynamics the movement has created in theater in Poland and around the world. The author unveils the systemic dimension of violence encoded in invisible and standardized relations of domination and subordination, inscribed in the two models which are still very common in Polish theater: the "master and apprentice" model defining the position of a director and the "feudal" model visible in institutional relations.Looking at the "Gardzienice" case and the reactions of the public to the testimonies exposing violence, the author also mentions examples of institutional and systemic reactions to similar situations in British and Belgian theater. In this way, she outlines possible directions for action in Polish theater. She asks questions about the transformative and emancipatory potential of the #MeToo movement, emphasizing the necessity to consider an intersectional perspective, to build alliances and to practice promiscuous care.