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In his diverse works, David Hockney has used, and still uses, various media, which in some periods of his activity gained leading significance, while in the following they were abandoned or temporarily abandoned. But no matter what medium in the given period was the main form of creativity, the focus of his interest has always been the issue of image and imaging. The article is devoted to the practice and theoretical recognition of photography, which was a kind of introduction to experiments with a moving image. The author refers to the artist's numerous publications on the theory and history of image and imaging (including Secret Knowledge, History of Images, On Photography). Photography led to Hockney's audiovisual realizations. This is a kind of repetition of the natural evolution and developmental progression of the media, also, and perhaps above all, in the technological dimension. The article is divided into three parts. In the first part, the author presents Hockney as a practitioner and theoretician, in whose activities both these activities are closely intertwined. This is a sign of the times: practice and theory are equally important, awareness of the medium, or artistic and aesthetic self-awareness of artists, is an expression of the spirit of the era in which an intuitive approach to art today seems inefficient, not to say impossible. Hockney appears to be an exemplary artist, who is extremely conceptual in his artistic practice as a consequence of his research on the history of art and a constantly developed set of his own theoretical findings. He is an artist discursively commenting not only on his work as an artist in many media (painting, drawing, graphics, set design, photography, film, computer graphics), but also an art and media theoretician reflecting on the fate of images in a changing media landscape. The second part of the article is devoted to the reconstruction of Hockney's theoretical reflections on photography and the analysis of his photographic projects. First of all, experimental Polaroid compositions created in the early eighties, named by the artist joiners, as well as photographic collages and photographic images realized in the later periods of the British artist's work. The third part considers digital movies, as Hockney calls them, audiovisual realizations referring to both his previous photographic works and experimental video films in which multi-camera systems are used.  
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The presented article covers the subject of changes in the Japanese avant garde film through the cinematographic epochs. The aim of the paper is to introduce the reader to the methodology, definitions and the range of the research concerning Japanese avant-garde cinema. The author also presents the importance of the conducted research for the Polish film research. What is more, she tries to answer the question of how the avant-garde film should be perceived in the era of mass-media.
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The text describes the backstage of the legendary International Experimental Film Competition in Brussels, which accompanied the Expo-58 Exhibition at a turning point of the political thaw in Eastern and Central Europe. The most important representatives of avant-garde cinema and auteur animation of three generations took part in this event. The Grand Prix was awarded to The House of Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica. The prize became the ticket to a European career for these two young filmmakers. The competition was also remembered as a symbolic beginning of the “Polish school of animation” (or the so-called “Polish school of experimental film”) on the global film market. The author of the article also writes about a difficult return to Poland, about a cash prize that caused many problems, about the successes of Polish films in Brussels, and about the reception of The House in Poland and abroad. Finally, he tries to demonstrate why this bleak and difficult to understand film, which builds opposition to the optimism of Expo Exhibitions, won the main prize, beating over 300 competitors from around the world.
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Omawiany tom – Historie filmu awangardowego. Od dadaizmu do postinternetu (2020) pod redakcją Łukasza Rondudy i Gabrieli Sitek – jest efektem projektu edukacyjnego „Akademia filmu awangardowego” realizowanego przez Fundację Okonakino i Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w latach 2019-2020. Autor zwraca uwagę na próbę rewizji dotychczasowych ustaleń dotyczących awangardy filmowej wyrażającą się przede wszystkim w dowartościowaniu twórczości artystek dotąd często pomijanych lub niedocenianych. Tematyczno-chronologiczna kompozycja całości jest rozpięta między tradycją kina awangardowego od jego początków w XX w. do najnowszych realizacji wykorzystujących wideo oraz nowe media, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem optyki feministycznej, queerowej, klasowej i postkolonialnej, oraz badaniem związków filmu dokumentalnego i awangardowego. Reinterpretacja wcześniejszych odczytań filmu awangardowego i prezentacja mało znanych fenomenów zarówno historycznych, jak i współczesnych stanowi o atrakcyjności publikacji.
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The discussed volume entitled Historie filmu awangardowego. Od dadaizmu do postinternetu [Histories of the Avant-garde Film: From Dadaism to Post-Internet] (2020), edited by Łukasz Ronduda and Gabriela Sitek, is the result of the two-year educational project “Avant-Garde Film Academy”, carried out by the Okonakino Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in 2019-2020. The reviewer draws attention to the author’s attempt to revise the existing image of the avant-garde film; this revision is expressed primarily in the appreciation of the work of female artists, often overlooked or underestimated in the past. The thematic-chronological composition of the volume is stretched between the tradition of avant-garde cinema, from its twentieth-century beginnings to the latest productions and creators using video and new media, with particular emphasis on feminist, queer, class and postcolonial optics. It also presents research on the relationships between documentary and avant-garde film. Reinterpretation of the previous readings of avant-garde film and the presentation of little-known (especially in Polish film studies) phenome­na, both historical and contemporary, make this publication attractive, significantly enriching the knowledge of avant-garde film and cinema.
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W Visitors (2013) Godfrey Reggio korzysta z podstawowych zabiegów formalnych charakterystycznych dla swej autorskiej stylistyki: alternacji zdjęć zwolnionych i poklatkowych oraz synergicznego związku obrazów z muzyką Philipa Glassa, która stanowi rodzaj rytmicznej partytury, determinującej ostateczną wersję montażową. Choć film można traktować jako kolejną części trylogii Qatsi, czyniącą z niej tetralogię, należy zarazem zachować świadomość, że różni się on znacząco od wcześniejszych realizacji twórcy. Autor rozpatruje Visitors jako przykład nienarratywnej formuły avant-doc, łączącej tradycje kina awangardowego i dokumentalnego. Lektura filmu Reggio skłania go do przemyślenia nienarratywnych form sztuki ruchomych obrazów oraz pozycji widza – nie jako odbiorcy, ale kogoś, kto jest głównym producentem znaczeń i w istocie sam staje się storytellerem.
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In Visitors (2013), Godfrey Reggio uses the fundamental formal procedures characteristic of his authorial style: the alternation of slow-motion and time-lapse cinematography and the synergic relationship between the images and Philip Glass’s music, which constitutes a kind of rhythmic score that determines the final editing. Although the film can be seen as another part of the Qatsi trilogy, making it a tetralogy, one should, at the same time, remain aware that it differs significantly from the filmmaker’s earlier works. The author considers Visitors as an example of a non- -narrative avant-doc formula, combining the traditions of avant-garde and documentary cinema. Reading Reggio’s film makes him rethink non-narrative moving image art forms and the position of the viewer – not as a recipient of the stories presented to him, but as someone who is the producer of meaning and – in fact – becomes a storyteller himself.
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The aim of this article is interpretation of the short film directed in 1958 by Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk and regarded as one of the most interesting works of Polish experimental animation. Author looked upon synopsis of House as the introduction to analysis of the world portrayed in film, all its elements, symbols and their meaning. The most important question concerns condition of depersonalized human jailed in the trap of automatically repeated activities and supressing his own sexuality in his subconscious. Author also paid attention to automatism as Lenica's and Borowczyk's artistic method derived from surrealism. In this context the special usage of photography and stop motion technique of animation in House is emphasized as very important in creative process. On the basis of interpretation of the characters and objects appeared in film author drew a conclusion of the eponymous house as a metaphor of our modern world where people as the collectivity divest themselves of individual features.
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Automatism of Human Existence in Jan Lenica's and Walerian Borowczyk's “House” The aim of this article is interpretation of the short film directed in 1958 by Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk and regarded as one of the most interesting works of Polish experimental animation. Author looked upon synopsis of House as the introduction to analysis of the world portrayed in film, all its elements, symbols and their meaning. The most important question concerns condition of depersonalized human jailed in the trap of automatically repeated activities and supressing his own sexuality in his subconscious. Author also paid attention to automatism as Lenica's and Borowczyk's artistic method derived from surrealism. In this context the special usage of photography and stop motion technique of animation in House is emphasized as very important in creative process. On the basis of interpretation of the characters and objects appeared in film author drew a conclusion of the eponymous house as a metaphor of our modern world where people as the collectivity divest themselves of individual features.
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This study aims to theorise a sonic experience that is informed by psychotic, or more specifically schizophrenic, perception. This kind of experience, characterised mainly by dissipation of recognisable sounds into a multiplicity of fragments, manifests itself in certain experimental films from the 1960s and 70s. With the help from certain works of ‘anti-psychiatry movement’ and like-minded philosophers such as Michel Foucault or Gilles Deleuze, the study addresses how the auditory perception in schizophrenia can be expressed in cinema and in what ways it can problematise the dominant regime of signification. Two distinctive films, Jane Arden’s The Other Side of the Underneath (1972) and Frans Zwartjes’s Pentimento (1979), serve as case studies.
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