Walerian Borowczyk jako dokumentalista surrealistyczny

Piotr Prusinowski

doi:10.34768/fp2023a12

Authors

Piotr Prusinowski Zielona Góra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7807-7663 Piotr Prusinowski

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34768/fp2023a12

Keywords

surrealism • documentary film • French cinema • Polish cinema

Abstract

Famous film critic André Bazin classified a distinction between “those directors who put their faith in the image and those who put their faith in reality”. The documentary output of Walerian Borowczyk, best known for his animated and feature films, seems difficult to fit into any of these categories. The author of this article analyses Borowczyk’s films as Diptych (Diptyque, 1967), A Private Collection (Une collection particulière, 1973), Letter from Paris (Brief von Paris, 1976) and The Greatest Love of All Times (L’amour – monstre de tous les temps, 1977). Those pictures are rare examples of surrealist ideas incorporated into documentary cinema.

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Author Biography

Piotr Prusinowski, Zielona Góra

Doctor of humanities in the discipline of literary studies (title of the dissertation: Elements of surrealism in film adaptations of Young Poland prose - "The Story of Sin" by Walerian Borowczyk and "On the Silver Globe" by Andrzej Żuławski). A graduate of Polish philology in the field of film, television and media culture at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań and literary studies at the University of Zielona Góra. He published his articles, among others: in "Images" (UAM), "Bulletin of Media Education" (KUL), "Polish Philology" (UZ), "Scripta Humana" (UZ), "Forum Poetyki" (UAM), "Litteraria Copernicana" (UMK) and monographs Culture in the world of mirrors. More about uniqueness and multiplication in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries (UMCS), Dirty, disgusting, unwanted in culture (UAM), From the silver screen to paper. Traces of film art in literature (UZ). In 2008, he received a distinction in the Young Film Critics Competition. Krzysztof Mętrak.

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