The Past and Memory in "Archive of Lives": Justyna Łuczaj-Salefs Impressionist Historical Documentary

• Authors: Justyna Czaja
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The documentary film Archiwum istnień tells the story of research by Nazi anthropologists searching among the population of occupied Poland for representatives of the Aryan race. In her film, the director makes use of archival materials from World War Two (above all, photographs, propaganda film chronicles and letters). Not only does Justyna Łuczaj-Salej incorporate the above into the cinematographer’s box of tricks, but most of all, she exploits them counter to their authors’ intentions, thereby initiating a process that de-contextualises and re-contextualises these archives in a deconstruction of the past.  

Keywords

PL

Archiwum istnień; Justyna Łuczaj-Salej; historical film documentary; WW II

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 24
• Pages: 107-112

Dates

published

2014-06-13

Contributors

author

Justyna Czaja

• Department of Film, Television and New Media at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2014.24.11