Nuda podróżowania, nuda czekania. "Gerry" Gusa Van Santa a teatr Samuela Becketta

• Authors: Jakub Popielecki

Title variants

EN

Boredom of travelling, boredom of waiting. Gus Van Sant’s “Gerry” and the theatre of Samuel Beckett

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Boredom of travelling, boredom of waiting. Gus Van Sant’s “Gerry” and the theatre of Samuel Beckett Jakub Popielecki draws on Roger Ebert’s anecdote and discusses similarities between Gus Van Sant’s Gerry and the theatre of Samuel Beckett. The movie and Beckett’s plays (such as Waiting for Godot) share many components: a sexually ambiguous pair of main characters, Buster Keaton’s physical comedy as a source of inspiration and use of wordplay in the title. Is Van Sant’s film a rethinking of “Beat Generation”-inspired road movie mythology? Are the characters played by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck nomads (as described by Gilles Deleuze)? What connects Van Sant’s and Beckett’s works with the phenomenon of boredom? Popielecki sees the minimalist style of these artists as a sign of a new attitude towards the problem of aesthetic experience.

EN

Jakub Popielecki draws on Roger Ebert’s anecdote and discusses similarities between Gus Van Sant’s Gerry and the theatre of Samuel Beckett. The movie and Beckett’s plays (such as Waiting for Godot) share many components: a sexually ambiguous pair of main characters, Buster Keaton’s physical comedy as a source of inspiration and use of wordplay in the title. Is Van Sant’s film a rethinking of “Beat Generation”-inspired road movie mythology? Are the characters played by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck nomads (as described by Gilles Deleuze)? What connects Van Sant’s and Beckett’s works with the phenomenon of boredom? Popielecki sees the minimalist style of these artists as a sign of a new attitude towards the problem of aesthetic experience.

Keywords

PL

Gus Van Sant; Samuel Beckett; boredom; nomad; road movie; aesthetic experience; minimalism; minimalizm; doświadczenie estetyczne; film drogi; nuda

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 13-14
• Pages: 225-234

Dates

published

2009-06-13

Contributors

author

Jakub Popielecki

• Katedra Filmu, Telewizji i Nowych Mediów, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2009.13.14.18