Möbius Strip as the Space-Time of a Film Work: On the Example of Wojciech Has’s “The Halter” and Grzegorz Królikiewicz’s “Killing the Aunt”
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Topological space with one side, or Möbius strip, can be the model of space-time in film. On the example of Wojciech Has’s The Halter and Grzegorz Królikiewicz’s Killing the Aunt, the author proves that physical and non-physical (objective physical events and subjective experiences) spheres overlap and are mutually inseparable facets of the same reality. The analysis of and Killing the Aunt presents the means the directors employed and discloses a unique unity of spirit and matter present in the deep structure of the films.
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Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Wojciech Jerzy Has, Möbius stripReferences
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Seweryn Kuśmierczykkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
Wykładowca w Instytucie Wiedzy o Kulturze na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, tłumacz Dzienników i Scenariuszy Andrieja Tarko wskiego (1998) i znawca jego twórczości, autor książki Zagubieni w drodze. Film fabularny jako obraz doświadczenia wewnętrznego (1999).
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