CLOSED SPACES IN SHORT FILMS OF JAN ŠVANKMAJER – THE HERITAGE AND CONVERSION OF PRE-INDUSTRIAL IMAGINATION Cover Image

ZAMKNIĘTE PRZESTRZENIE W FILMACH KRÓTKOMETRAŻOWYCH JANA ŠVANKMAJERA – DZIEDZICTWO I KONWERSJA PREINDUSTRIALNEJ WYOBRAŹNI
CLOSED SPACES IN SHORT FILMS OF JAN ŠVANKMAJER – THE HERITAGE AND CONVERSION OF PRE-INDUSTRIAL IMAGINATION

Author(s): Bogusław Zmudziński
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Sociology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa AGH
Keywords: closed space; dialogue; mannerism; surrealism; object animation

Summary/Abstract: The proposed view on the subject of closed spaces in short lms of the Czech artist Jan Švankmajer is a continu- ation of a research of the text’s author on various aspects of creative output of this one of the most outstanding surrealist lmmaker living today. Švankmajer, a polemical continuator of Giuseppe Arcimboldi’s pictorial works, is carrying out a peculiar conversion of the ideas, which the Italian painter followed in accordance tothe spirit of his era, both in relation to the concept of a dialogue and in the context of closed spaces. Situat- ing the plot of many of Švankmajer’s early lms in closed places constitutes an important component of the portrayal of human condition as seen by the artist: a man subjected to mechanisms of destruction and living in disharmony and a faulty creature who has lost the capability to remain in natural relation both with his closest environment and the whole world.

  • Issue Year: 14/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 121-131
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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