Three Voices on the “Ode To Joy”
Grzegorz Nadgrodkiewicz
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Ewa Ciszewska
University od Lodz (Poland)
Jadwiga Mostowska
University of Lodz (Poland)
Abstract
In this three-part article its authors attempt to discuss one of the most exciting debuts in the Polish cinema of the recent years – Ode to Joy (2005). The first text, corresponding with the first part of the feature, examines the content of Anna Kazejak-Dawid’s etude entitled Silesia (Śląsk). Grzegorz Nadgrodkiewicz makes a subjective evaluation of the degree to which the etude withstood the test of time and tries to decide to what extent the generational criterion may be useful in interpreting the etude. Commenting on Jan Komasa’s episode, entitled Warsaw (Warszawa), Ewa Ciszewska focuses on Poland’s social stratification during transformation and on its consequences for the young. Also analysed is the manner in which hip-hop culture is represented here. The third text discusses Maciej Migas’s episode The Sea (Morze). Jadwiga Mostowska focuses on the key plots, motifs and, first of all, on the central character to depart from generational tropes in favour of a reflection on the film itself – a work of art of the young director who wants to tell a story. [originally published in Polish in Kwartalnik Filmowy 2007, no. 57-58, pp. 160-179]
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Grzegorz Nadgrodkiewiczkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Specialist in film studies, he graduated in Cultural Studies with the specialisation in Film Studies from the University of Łódź; junior member of research staff at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Film and Audiovisual Arts – Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw), member of the Editorial Staff of Kwartalnik Filmowy. His research interests include religious film, problems of spirituality in cinema, and issues concerning the relationships between film and theatre. His papers were published i.a. in Kwartalnik Filmowy and in collective volumes.
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Ewa CiszewskaUniversity od Lodz Poland
Doctor of the Humanities, graduate of Cultural Studies with specialisation in Film Studies at the University of Łódź. As a student, she received a visiting scholarship to the VŠMU Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Her MA dissertation discussed the output of the Slovak director Martin Šulík. During doctoral studies, she won a Visegrad Scholarship to attend the Faculty of Film at FAMU – Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 2010, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the history of Czech cinema. Since 2011, she has worked as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Contemporary Culture, University of Łódź. Her research interests include Czech, Slovak and Polish cinema, as well as the history and culture of the city of Łódź. Member of NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies).
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Jadwiga MostowskaUniversity of Lodz Poland
Doctor of the Humanities, graduate of Cultural Studies with specialisation in Film Studies at the University of Łódź. Her doctoral dissertation discussed children characters in Polish fiction films after 1989. She works in the field of cultural education in film, visual arts and literature. She develops and carries out projects in education and culture. Her academic papers and popular articles on Polish cinema after the transformations of the end of the 1980s, popular culture and the film industry have been published i.a. in Kwartalnik Filmowy and collective volumes.
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