Kino i rzeczywistość (kilka uwag o zwątpieniu i afirmacji)
Reality and film – remarks on affirmation and doubt

Summary/Abstract: The author notes that although the issue of the relationship between cinema and reality is present in the reflection on moving pictures almost from the beginning of their existence, it only became an important theoretical problem in the late forties. It is therefore necessary to reflect on the impact of the experience of World War II on the emergence of this relationship as a theoretical issue. Kwiatkowska, citing con- cepts of Gilles Deleuze, maintains that film turned out to be the only medium that could give expression to changes occurring in the ways of perceiving reality. Paradoxically, with the increase of trust in the moving image there is also a growing skepticism and concern about having our perception deceived and reality falsely presented by the film. The author discusses three, in her opinion, most significant at- tempts at formulation of theoretical frameworks for the understanding of this doubt in the cinema – namely the ideas of Roland Barthes, the work of psychoanalytic film theorists and the theories of Jean Baudrillard. At the same time she also idenitfies in those theories the need for affirmation. Finally, call- ing on the work of Agnes Varda, the author wonders where in contemporary cinema one may find the equilibirum between doubting the image and its affirmation.

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