Description

• Title:
  Destruction as a material. Iconography of the ruins of Warsaw in Polish documentary cinema after the Second World War
• Creator:
  Cieśliński, Marek Kosma
• Description:
  The image of Warsaw in ruins after World War II is an important motif in Polish documentary and feature cinema in the years 1944–1956. In the text, I discuss the images of the city captured by the first chroniclers as ‘basic’, which then became archetypical icons of the city’s destruction. I point out that the aesthetics of destruction, recorded in Andrzej Panufnik’s early film Ballada f-moll [Ballade in f minor], Jerzy Bossak’s Most [Bridge] and Tadeusz Makarczyński’s Suita warszawska [Warsaw Suite] proved to be exemplary for other artists. I show that the destruction of urban and architectural structures was inspiring for directors: it served as a documentary record, a basis forconstructing scripts, and dominant aesthetic, often providing a persuasive argument and serving to shape emotions. References to the resentments of the audience and the anatomy of the ruins were among the elements that shaped the ideological attitudes of various parts of Polish society. For some directors it was also a catharsis after the trauma of the Holocaust.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2020 Marek Kosma Cieśliński
• Date:
  2020.12.15
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Vol. 27 No. 36 (2020): Spaces in Film; 169–181;
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Tom 27 Nr 36 (2020): Spaces in Film; 169–181;
  2720-040X;
  1731-450X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/27346/24954
• Subject:
  Iconography of ruins;
  World War II;
  Warsaw;
  destruction;
  creation
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/27346
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text