The Stories of the Avant-garde Film (Re)written
Piotr Zawojski
piotr.zawojski@us.edu.plUniversity of Silesia (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-0446
Abstract
The discussed volume entitled Historie filmu awangardowego. Od dadaizmu do postinternetu [Histories of the Avant-garde Film: From Dadaism to Post-Internet] (2020), edited by Łukasz Ronduda and Gabriela Sitek, is the result of the two-year educational project “Avant-Garde Film Academy”, carried out by the Okonakino Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2019-2020. The reviewer draws attention to the author’s attempt to revise the existing image of the avant-garde film; this revision is expressed primarily in the appreciation of the work of female artists, often overlooked or underestimated in the past. The thematic-chronological composition of the volume is stretched between the tradition of avant-garde cinema, from its twentieth-century beginnings to the latest productions and creators using video and new media, with particular emphasis on feminist, queer, class and postcolonial optics. It also presents research on the relationships between documentary and avant-garde film. Reinterpretation of the previous readings of avant-garde film and the presentation of little-known (especially in Polish film studies) phenomena, both historical and contemporary, make this publication attractive, significantly enriching the knowledge of avant-garde film and cinema.
Keywords:
avant-garde film, experimental film, avant-garde, herstoryReferences
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Piotr Zawojskipiotr.zawojski@us.edu.pl
University of Silesia Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2291-0446
Associate Professor at the Institute of Culture Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice. He also work at Faculty of Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. His research interest focus on the theory of photography, film and cinema, new media and new media arts, cyberculture and technoculture. His publications include Elektroniczne obrazoświaty. Między sztuką a technologią [Electronic Image-Worlds: Between Art and Technology] (2000); Wielkie filmy przełomu wieków. Subiektywny przewodnik [Great Films of the Turn of the Century: Subjective Guide] (2007); Cyberkultura. Syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii [Cyberculture: Syntopy of Art, Science and Technology] (2010, II edition 2018); Sztuka obrazu i obrazowania w epoce nowych mediów [The Art of Image and Imaging in the Era of New Media] (2012); Technokultura i jej manifestacje artystyczne. Medialny świat hybryd i hybrydyzacji [Technoculture and Its Artistic Manifestations: The Media World of Hybrids and Hybridization] (2016) and Ruchome obrazy zatrzymane w pamięci. Reminiscencje teoretyczne i krytyczne [Moving Images Retained in Memory: Theoretical and Critical Reminiscences] (2017). He is a chief of Film and Media section at Polish cultural quarterly “Opcje”. Member of The Committee on Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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