Déjà Vu
Marcin Giżycki
mgizycki@hotmail.comPolish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7525-0205
Abstract
Images that we know from the media of a mob attacking the Capitol on January 6, 2021 revoke scenes from films about revolutions, like La Marseillaise (1938) by Jean Renoir, La Révolution française (1989) by Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron, or Reds (1981) by Warren Beatty. None of these scenes has the power of Sergei Eisenstein’s October (1928). As we know, the way the attack on the Winter Palace is depicted by Eisenstein has little to do with real events, but it has shaped the collective vision of the October Revolution for decades. It also became a simulacrum for what happened in Washington, DC.
Keywords:
Sergei Eisenstein, Donald Trump, CapitolReferences
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Marcin Giżyckimgizycki@hotmail.com
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7525-0205
Film and art historian, critic, filmmaker. Professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw (Poland). Senior Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (USA). Artistic Director of “Animator” – International Animated Film Festival in Poznań (Poland). Former editor-in-chief of Animafilm – the ASIFA quarterly. He has published eight books and around 400 articles on film and art in Polish and foreign publications. He has also made a number of documentary, live action, experimental, and animated films in Poland and the USA. In 2016 he received the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies at “Animafest”, the World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb (Croatia).
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