Choreografie rewolucyjnego wrzenia
The Choreography of Revolutionary Ferment

Summary/Abstract: Paweł Mościcki’s point of departure is Siegfried Kracauer’s article “Das Ornament der Masse,” concerning the capitalist production process, which is reflected, for example, in the choreographic designs of sport events. Mościcki joins Kracauer in exploring the essence of mass ornament. Looking at the photography of Arthur Mole and a handful of Soviet films, he ponders the role of the collective and human masses in forming state symbols and political structures. Mościcki formulates the thesis that, for the Soviet directors, film came to communicate revolutionary content, and a film’s composition echoed the dilemma of the post-revolutionary structure in the imperative to show itself as extraordinary.

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