The various faces of intermediality in Lech Majewski’s
works
Ewelina Twardoch
Jagiellonian
University in Cracow, Poland
Abstract
The article
examines the role of intermediality in the works of one of the most famous
Polish directors, Lech Majewski, who also cooperates with foreign film studios
and actors. In his movies, Majewski focuses mostly on the functions of
paintings, thus his works are often inspired by great artists, such as Giorgio
Chirico, Bosch, Breughel. Such great inspiration is also the reason for which
the director tries to present paintings into the other media – as digital
images and film. This combination of different media is a really interesting
and complex issue, and it is also a topic of the paper.
In the paper,
the author focuses on analysis of various faces of relations between different
media (mostly between painting and digital movie) in Majewski’s works; it shows
intermedia and intramedia configurations and strategies and explains why
intermediality is so special in the director’s movies.
The paper refers
to selected theories of Hans Belting, Andrzej Gwóźdź, François Soulages, Ivonne
Spielman and other thinkers, creating a theoretical background for the analysis
of particular movies (especially The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Mill and
the Cross, The Roe’s Room).
Key words: intermediality, anthropology, image,
medium, Lech Majewski, digital art
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