Jana Jakuba Kolskiego filmowe pejzaże z pamięci i wyobraźni
Jana Jakub Kolski’s film landscapes from memory and imagination

Author(s): Jakub Zajdel
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The author has made an attempt at describing the human and geographical landscape in Jan Jakub Kolski’s films from the so-called Popielawy series. Initially, critics related his early films to magical realism, strongly present in Ibero-American literature. However, in the mid 1990s, they verified this view, focusing on the anchoring of “Popielawy” films in folk culture. The author argues that sources of the fi lm stories about Popielawy can also be traced to the views of the Romantics. His analyses of Kolski’s films accentuate the resemblances between the construction of the world and actions of the characters in the Popielawy series and the assumptions of the Romantic way of cognition of the world. Simultaneously, in these films, the director works out the history of his own family, relating to the experiences and professional activity of his grandparents and father. The author points to the fact that in his depictions of peasants, Kolski polemicizes against the myth ingrained in communist propaganda of the moral law of poor villagers to distribute the possessions of their richer neighbors and property owners among themselves.

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