Cinematic Image and Alterity in András Jeles’s Art
Cinematic Image and Alterity in András Jeles’s Art

Summary/Abstract: The study starts from the premise that the “own” is always formed in relation to some kind of alterity. In this way, the national specificities also depend upon alterities and respectively, the medial specificities (the medium of the image, of the film) are also formed in confrontation with alterities. Starting from the approach of the concept of alterity in view of image theories, the study follows the experience of foreignness which basically determines the reception of the films of András Jeles, providing the reader with the aesthetic experience generated by the alienating effect of the non-filmlike film, of the distorted/deteriorated image, of the intolerable image (Jacques Rancière). The paper touches on the problem of the representation of the national image, identifying the (Hungarian) national character as being also formed in terms of alterities.

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