REFLEXÍV KÉPEK GYALUI JENŐ 1918-BAN ÍRT, A FÉNY ASSZONYA CÍMŰ FORGATÓKÖNYVÉBEN
REFLEXIVITY IN JENŐ GYALUI'S SCRIPT, THE WOMAN OF LIGHT (1918)

Author(s): Bálint Zágoni
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: reflexivity; Jenő Gyalui; script
Summary/Abstract: Among the renowned directors, actors and cinematographers who contributed to the silent film production of Cluj in the 1910s, the name of the scenarist Jenő Gyalui sounds somewhat unfamiliar. He is mentioned only in connection with one film, the Világrém (Din grozaviile lumii), made in 1920. Still his role in the history of silent film production is more important than that, the only cause of his name being forgotten can be explained with his untimely death (he died at the age of 24) and the lack of data about the films made in 1918. The above essay presents a script written by Jenő Gyalui, a script that has never been screened. The importance of The Woman of Light lays undoubtedly in the fact, that the story presents several interesting techniques of filmic reflexivity. The examples show in what ways notions connected to the concept of film can appear in the script, and what kind of mimetic and reflexive filmic imagery typical of early cinema does the writer of the script foresee while creating the filmic story. The text of the script is also published as an appendix to this analysis.

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