Prodigal Fatherhood, Prodigal Sonship and the Grenade in the Cellar of Emotions

Teresa Rutkowska

kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Science (Poland)

Abstract

In 2013, prominent Polish documentary filmmakers, Marcel and Paweł Łoziński, father and son, decided to implement a joint film project, that was to be a report from a journey from Warsaw to Paris. The expedition was also supposed to have a therapeutic signi- ficance, to help to clarify misunderstandings and to repair their mutual relations. The idea was not entirely successful. The joint project was not realized, and instead, based on the same photographic material, two independent films were created: Father and Son by Paweł Łoziński, Father and Son on the Journey by Marcel Łoziński. The author defines these films as examples of personal documentary and first person documentary, and places them in a broader context - on the line of the relationship between father and son - post-memory referring to the history of the family and its Jewish roots and dilemmas resulting from father and son practising the same profession.


Keywords:

Marcel Łoziński, Paweł Łoziński, personal documentary, first person documentary

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Published
2018-09-30

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Rutkowska, T. (2018) “Prodigal Fatherhood, Prodigal Sonship and the Grenade in the Cellar of Emotions”, Kwartalnik Filmowy, (103), pp. 113–124. doi: 10.36744/kf.1918.

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Teresa Rutkowska 
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Science Poland

Editor-in-chief of Kwartalnik Filmowy; translator. She is employed at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Film and Audiovisual Arts at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). She publishes articles in Kwartalnik Filmowy and book reviews in the monthly magazine Nowe Książki. Her areas of interest include the film narration and the relationship between image and word in film.



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