W pułapce przedmiotów Jana Švankmajera
In the Trap of Objects of Jan Švankmajer

Summary/Abstract: Bogusław Zmudzinski’s book Twórczość filmowa Jana Švankmajera. Główne konteksty kulturowe i ideowe [Film Works of Jan Švankmajer: Main Cultural and Ideological Contexts] (2020) is an attempt to answer the question about the contexts essential in analyzing the short film work of the Prague Alchemist. The author argues Švankmajer’s works is a polemical continuator of the oeuvre of the mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldi. In his essays, Zmudzinski analyzes selected aspects of Švankmajer’s work by locating them in the context of Arcimboldi’s painting. Although the reviewer criticizes the disorderly line of argumentation, she acknowledges Zmudzinski’s research proposals as broadening the field of consideration of Polish and Czech film animation. Particularly noteworthy are the issues of festival reception of Švankmajer’s works and the postulate to take into account the local contexts of filmmaking in the process of the final interpretation of the work.

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