„Korfulamu” – Journeys Through Time in the Films of Theodoros Angelopoulos
Abstract
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.
Keywords:
Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek cinema, journey, timeReferences
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Adam Cichońadam.cichon@op.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2707-9914
Doktorant Wydziału „Artes Liberales” Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Zajmuje się filozofią, szeroko pojętym kinem europejskim oraz slow cinema. Obecnie przygotowuje rozprawę doktorską poświęconą ekspresji obrazu filmowego w kontekście teorii kina Gilles’a Deleuze’a.
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