Ekscytująca zagadka polskiej animacji

• Authors: Paul Wells

Title variants

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THE EXCITING RIDDLE OF POLISH ANIMATION

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Paul Wells considers the filmmakers and their work representing the so-called golden age of Polish animation (among other works of Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk, Witold Giersz, Daniel Szczechura and Ryszard Czekała) and concludes that the art was radically involved in historical perturbations, and at the same time also contributed to the redefinition of cultural expression. Wells, gazing from the perspective of the West, sees Polish animators as artists who do not simply give vent to their imagination through their art, but who also become the exponents of a kind of passion, emerging at the interface between various latent tensions present in the nation (for example, between firmly rooted Catholicism, the dark echo of the Holocaust and the impact of Soviet communism). Wells states that it is a passion of life force itself, that, since the mid-1950s, still drives the stylized irony of Polish animation.

Keywords

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Lenica Jan; Borowczyk Walerian; Giersz Witold; Szczechura Daniel; Czekała Ryszard; Polish cinema; Polish animation

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 77-78
• Pages: 298-303

Contributors

author

Paul Wells