Performing the Unspeakable. Intermedial Events in András Jeles’s Parallel Lives
Performing the Unspeakable. Intermedial Events in András Jeles’s Parallel Lives

Summary/Abstract: Among the various connotations of intermediality one is RELATED TO THE PERFORMATIVE ASPECT OF THE TERM! AS AGNES PETHŐ  formulates: “Intermediality is seen, more often than not, as something that actively ‘does,’ ‘performs’ something, and not merely ‘is.’” This notion of intermediality implies a dynamic category within which media CONSTELLATIONS ARE IN CONTINUOUS MOTION BEING RECONlGURED BY ONE ANOTHER the cinematic medium becoming a playground of media interactions. András *ELES (UNGARIAN EXPERIMENTAL lLMMAKER FORMULATES THE PARADOX THAT A particular medium can best express its own mediality through the “foreign” material of other arts and media. The medial consonances and dissonances transform the cinematic medium into a liminal space where meaning as eventCANTAKESHAPE*ELESSlLMENTITLEDParallel Lives (Senkiföldje, 1993) is aimed at such event-like liminality in several respects: culturally, it turns towards a burdened site of the still unprocessed past of the Hungarian SOCIETY THEMATICALLY IT ADDRESSES THE TOPIC OF THE HOLOCAUST AND MEDIALLY IT PROPOSES TO ARTISTICALLY RENDER THE UNREPRESENTABLE 4HElLM APPEALS TO the other arts, incorporating a set of literary, painterly and musical allusions that contrast a culturally aestheticized view of the child in pain with the ultimate, inescapable and incommensurable reality.

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