THE DISCREET CHARM OF SURREALISM IN THE WORK OF WALERIAN BOROWCZYK (Dyskretny urok surrealizmu w twórczosci filmowej Waleriana Borowczyka)

• Authors: Kwas Paulina
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The authoress considers ambiguity and controversy which accompanied the reception of the work of Walerian Borowczyk. Most films made by Borowczyk, including the erotic ones, escape the rules of classic cinema or even art cinema, placing the films somewhere on the edge of film vanguard, visual art, and a provocation. She considers the hypothesis that Borowczyk as a director was a film maker with a surrealist temperament. Following this notion she considers Borowczyk's involvement with the surrealist movement and points to similarities between hyper-realist ideology and Borowczyk's creative stance. The article concludes with an analysis of Borowczyk's 'Immoral stories' (Opowiesci niemoralne, 1974) made from the perspective of the surrealistic aesthetics and ideology.

Keywords

EN

BOROWCZYK WALERIAN; SURREALISM

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 66
• Pages: 72-79
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kwas Paulina

• Paulina Kwas, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Zarzadzania i Komunikacji Spolecznej, Instytut Sztuk Audiowizualnych, ul. Lojasiewicza 4, 30-348 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA068516