Na manowcach przygody. Esej filmowy i polskie kino lat 70.
On the Backroads of Adventure. Film Essay and Polish Cinema of the 1970s

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to outline the characteristics of the film essay as a genre typical of post-war modernist cinema, developed especially in Europe in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Its hybridity, formal idiosyncrasies and content ambiguity appear in this approach as a consequence of the doubts, that are typical for modernity, in the cognitive possibilities and aesthetic coherence of traditional forms, as well as proof of displaying the author’s voice and discursive forms of expression. In the context of this background one can also consider quite numerous examples of late-modernist Polish cinema as film essays. They occur in two basic variants – the first one is a fictional story (represented for example by Krzysztof Zanussi’s “Illumination” or Tadeusz Konwicki’s “How Far, How Near”), the second is a creative and discursive version of the document (represented by so-called creative documents of Wojciech Wiszniewski, Bogdan Dziworski or Grzegorz Królikiewicz).

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