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Mocumentary: Stylization, Dramatization, Fake in Contemporary Polish and Czech Cinema

2023
Mockumentary is a hybrid experimental form of cinema, the meaning of which is to play with the audience by misleading them. The origins of this phenomenon can be found in silent lms, and then in the 1960s. The article discusses Polish and Czech mockumentaries of the last twenty years, and also provides a short digression into the history of the issue ...
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Adaptations of Hybrids: Literary Plays with Genres in Contemporary Polish Cinema (Spoor and Darkness and Dark, Almost Night)

Tekstualia, 2021
The article discusses the problem of genre hybridity and the play with genres from a comparative perspective on the example of Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk and Dark, Almost Night by Joanna Bator as well as of their fi lm adaptations, directed by Agnieszka Holland and Borys Lankosz, respectively. In both novels, generic
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Intermedial Détrompe l’Oeil and Contemporary Polish Narrative Cinema

2020
New technologies have deeply informed the ways to think about cinema, film and video. If digital cinema is often understood as a break with past film aesthetics, this chapter rather sees continuity. Digital culture also preserves and prolongs video culture.
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Cinema of Hard Times: Individuals, Families and Society in Polish Contemporary Films

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2004
AbstractThe collapse in 1989 of so-called “really existing socialism” in Poland affected the population in a profound way. The purpose of this essay is to establish how Polish films reflect and assess these changes. I am interested in the representation of society, especially the situation of young people, families and the functioning of institutions ...
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