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Poświęcić niepewność – prolegomena do badań nad kinem postsekularnym

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Piskorska A. M.

Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

2021

vol. 30

issue 39

47-66

This article undertakes the issue of defining film phenomena which put forward questions of a primary religious nature (about the meaning of life, source of evil, life after death, the existence of Absolute, etc.) in a way that is independent from major religious traditions. The author posits that describing this phenomenon in the case of European film culture is done best by employing the philosophical thought of postsecularism. Utilizing Mieke Bal’s method of cultural analysis, the author takes as an example the term “sacrifice” to point to the existence of different models by which religious topics are undertaken by the cinema. This leads to a preliminary typology of the phenomenon which differentiates between ‘apologetic’ and ‘critical’ films and, furthermore, between films that refer to particular religious traditions and those expressing a postsecular perspective.

Uważne spojrzenie – nowy paradygmat poznawczy dla europejskiego kina slow

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Piskorska A. M.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

2020

vol. 110

issue 3

148-159

Putting the increasingly popular concept of mindfulness in a wider context of slow movement, the article focuses on its representation in the film culture. Developed in the late 20th century, slow cinema is a cross-cultural trend in art cinema film-making that is not only appreciated but also initiated by the viewers themselves, film critics, selectors, and cinema enthusiasts. According to the author, the artificial construct of slow cinema emerged from the need to experience the so-called secular epiphany, a phenomenon that as of yet hasn’t been thoroughly studied. To capture this post-secular potential of slow cinema, she refers to the concept of mindfulness (or awareness) analysed here both with respect to Jon Kabat-Zinn’s functional definition of mindfulness and the original Buddhist concept of sati (as updated in terms of its epistemological and soteriological sense). The hypothetical usefulness of the concept of mindfulness is verified in the process of interpreting three films included among the classics of slow cinema: Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, Birdsong (2008) by Albert Serra, and Outside Satan (2011) by Bruno Dumont.

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Poświęcić niepewność – prolegomena do badań nad kinem postsekularnym

Uważne spojrzenie – nowy paradygmat poznawczy dla europejskiego kina slow