Historie awangardy filmowej na nowo (o)pisane
The Stories of the Avant-garde Film (Re)written

Summary/Abstract: The discussed volume entitled Historie filmu awangardowego. Od dadaizmu do postinternetu [Histories of the Avantgarde Film: From Dadaism to Post-Internet] (2020), edited by Łukasz Ronduda and Gabriela Sitek, is the result of the twoyear 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.

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