The Spirit of the Machine: Robert Bresson

Andrzej Zalewski

kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jan Dlugosz Academy in Czestochowa (Poland)

Abstract

Most of what has been written about the work of Robert Bresson concentrates on the spiritual aspect of his work. This article on the other hand focuses on something completely different: on the mechanistic and material layer of Bresson’s images, on the deeply rooted materiality of things. Whether this layer disturbs the metaphysical significance of the work, or strengthens it, is open to discussion. According to Zalewski this layer is an autonomous one, that deserves a separate analysis, beginning of which is presented in this article.


Keywords:

Robert Bresson, spiritualism, materiality

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Published
2011-06-30

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Zalewski, A. (2011) “The Spirit of the Machine: Robert Bresson”, Kwartalnik Filmowy, (74), pp. 58–79. doi: 10.36744/kf.2941.

Authors

Andrzej Zalewski 
kwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jan Dlugosz Academy in Czestochowa Poland

Profesor zwyczajny nauk hu­manistycznych w Instytucie Filozofii, Socjologii i Psychologii Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie. Zajmuje się filozofią, w szcze­gólności jej nurtem fenomenologicznym. W okre­sie, z którego pochodzi prezentowany w tym tomie tekst, absorbowały go również zagadnienia filozofii filmu i mediów. W ramach tego nurtu opublikował m.in. książki: Strategiczna dezorien­tacja. Perypetie rozumu w fabularnym filmie post­modernistycznym (1998) oraz Film i nie tylko. Kognitywizm, emocje, reality show (2004).



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