Pejzaże głębin. O osobnych światach Lucile Hadžihalilović
The landscapes of the deeps. On the separate worlds of Lucile Hadžihalilovic

Author(s): Natalia Gruenpeter
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The author performs an analysis of Innocence and Evolution – the films of Lucile Hadžihalilović, which she proposes to treat as a diptych due to similarities in the thematiclayer and plot, as well as significant parallels in the construction of presented worlds. The ambiguous morphology of the surroundings and meaningful landscape shots are viewedin two dimensions: on the one hand, as references to the structure of myth, fairytale andutopia; on the other hand, as elements of the depiction of nature. Besides forest, sea or underwater landscapes, this way of depiction includes, among others, poetic pictures of atmospheric phenomena and observations of vegetation and animal life, which are endowed with symbolic meaning. Among her sources of the depiction of nature, the author indicates documentary films of Jean Painlevé and the fascination with an element of water present in the works of surrealists. Moreover, Lucile Hadžihalilović approaches the aquatic imagination as a manifestation of underwater optics, which performs a symbolic function.

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