The Exciting Riddle of Polish Animation
Abstract
Paul Wells considers the filmmakers and their work representing the so-called golden age of Polish animation (among other works of Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk, Witold Giersz, Daniel Szczechura and Ryszard Czekała) and concludes that the art was radically involved in historical perturbations, and at the same time also contributed to the redefinition of cultural expression. Wells, gazing from the perspective of the West, sees Polish animators as artists who do not simply give vent to their imagination through their art, but who also become the exponents of a kind of passion, emerging at the interface between various latent tensions present in the nation (for example, between firmly rooted Catholicism, the dark echo of the Holocaust and the impact of Soviet communism). Wells states that it is a passion of life force itself, that, since the mid-1950s, still drives the stylized irony of Polish animation.
Keywords:
Polish animation, Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk, Witold Giersz, Daniel Szczechura, Ryszard CzekałaReferences
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Paul Wellskwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Loughborough University United Kingdom
Profesor na Loughborough University (Wielka Brytania), gdzie kieruje inicjatywą badawczą Animation Academy. W swej filmoznawczej działalności naukowej skupia się głównie na teorii i praktyce animacji oraz na praktykach archiwizacyjnych. Zajmuje się także scenopisarstwem i reżyserią teatralną, telewizyjną i radiową. Wydał m.in. Understanding Animation (1998), Animation and America (2002), Animation: Genre and Authorship (2002), The Fundamentals of Animation (2006; wyd. polskie: Animacja, 2009) Basics Animation: Scriptwriting (2007) i The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons and Culture (2008). Jest redaktorem czasopisma „Animation Practice, Process and Production” i przewodniczącym The Association of British Animation Collections (ABAC).
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