The Death of Body: A Question about Man – Krzysztof Zanussi’s “Life as a Sexually Transmitted Terminal Disease”
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Frąc points to the capability of the cinema to record a metamorphosis of the materiality of the world and body. But there is a barrier the eye cannot go beyond. It is a state of illness interpreted as strangeness inside one’s body. The issue is raised in Zanussi’s film. It tells a story of man’s inevitable striving towards death that cannot be comprehended although can be shown because indefinability is part of the essence of humanity.
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Krzysztof Zanussi, illness, bodyReferences
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Waldemar Frąckwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Ukończył filozofię i filmoznawstwo na UJ. Na tej samej uczelni uzyskał doktorat. Wykłada na Uniwersytecie Opolskim i Jagiellońskim. Ostatnio wydał książkę z teorii filmu: Kino możliwe.
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