The Metaphysics in “The Labyrinth” by Jan Lenica
Abstract
In the article on The Labyrinth (1962) by Jan Lenica, Hendrykowski – with the help of a series of micro-analyses focused on the semantic functions of individual elements (action, plot, narrative, protagonist, characters, music etc.) – discovers new layers of interpretation of this famous short feature film. The author points to the links between the Aristotelian poetics of this film with the original vision of modern civilization. He concludes that: The animator has the ability to free his imagination from that which binds and restricts it. In order to do it he uses the language of moving images loaded with symbolic meaning, images that can show things as they really are. As a cinema artist he is not limited by the world created, or the laws of physics that govern the filmed (photographed) ‘in crudo’ reality, nor by the body of the actor.
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Jan Lenica, animation, Polish cinemaReferences
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Marek Hendrykowskikwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Poland
Historyk i teoretyk filmu, medioznawca, badacz kultury audiowizualnej, profesor zwyczajny w Katedrze Filmu, Telewizji i Nowych Mediów Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, redaktor senior czasopisma naukowego „Images”, autor monografii książkowych: Film jako źródło historyczne (2000), Kanał (wspólnie z Donem Fredericksenem, 2007), Popiół i diament (2008), Komeda (2009), Eroica (2011), Film i moda (2011), Andrzej Munk (2011), Do widzenia, do jutra (2012), Morgenstern (2012), Najlepsze kasztany. Księga cytatów polskiego filmu (2013), Semiotyka ruchomych obrazów (2014) oraz Współczesna adaptacja filmowa (2014).
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