“I’ll Get Rid of My Body”: On Marcin Koszałka’s and Jerzy Nowak’s “Being”
Abstract
In the article about Being (Istnienie, 2007), a documentary by Marcin Koszałka, the author tries to reconstruct the cultural tropes present in the film. In his analysis he considers the overlapping points of reference present in the film and film viewing experience, namely that of the director-camera operator, actor-hero and viewer-interpreter. Using the ideas of ethics in legal and medical discourse, memory, film aesthetics, references to baroque dance macabre and a postmodern ambiance the author creates an image of a decline of a particular form of artistic representation of world and people. [originally published in Polish in Kwartalnik Filmowy 2008, no. 62-63, pp. 281-290]
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Marcin Koszałka, Jerzy Nowak, sublimeReferences
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Sebastian Liszkakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
independent researcher Poland
Educator, dramatist, coordinator of cultural projects, member of The Political Critique (Krytyka Polityczna) crew. He studied law, comparative literature as well as film and media studies at the University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University (Krakow). He worked in MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow and as literary director of the Dramatic Theater in Wałbrzych. Since 2013, he has been working in the National Old Theater in Krakow.
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