Architektonika teatru – struktura filmu – zakamarki umysłu. Nowojorskie pasaże „Birdmana”
Architectonics of the Theatre – Structure of the Film – Nooks of the Mind. New York Passages of „Birdman”

Summary/Abstract: Nadgrodkiewicz presents an analysis of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s movie "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance") (2014), offering a reading different than in popular reviews which emphasize the issues of stardom, postmodern irony, film intertextuality or even questions related to the fidelity of adaptation. Starting with a description of the architectonics of New York’s St. James Theatre, which served as a film location for the movie, the author claims that the peculiar claustrophobic dimension of this theatre allowed the director to shape the psychological profile of the main character Riggan Thomson as an actor on the verge of a split personality. Furthermore, Nadgrodkiewicz argues, the architectonics of the theatre presented in "Birdman" should be seen as the reverse of what is symbolized by the architecture of Manhattan and the openness of the space associated with it. An important context of the analysis is also provided by issues related to film editing (including one-shot film), the system of suture and the “cinematographic” functions of the human hippocampus.

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