Boro, L'Île d'Amour

The Films of Walerian Borowczyk

Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michał Oleszczyk (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-818-4 (ISBN)

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There has been a recent revival of interest in the work of Polish film director Walerian Borowczyk, a label-defying auteur and “escape artist” if there ever was one. This collection serves as an introduction and a guide to Borowczyk’s complex and ambiguous body of work, including panoramic views of the director’s output, focused studies of particular movies, and more personal, impressionistic pieces. Taken together, these contributions comprise a wide-ranging survey that is markedly experimental in character, allowing scholars to gain insight into previously unnoticed aspects of Borowczyk’s oeuvre.

Kamila Kuc is a multimedia artist, curator and writer. Her films have screened in venues and at film festivals nationally and internationally: Whitechapel Gallery, British Film Institute, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Anthology Film Archives New York, Ann Arbor Film Festival. She is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on experimental media, including Visions of Avant-Garde Film (Indiana University Press) and the co-founder, with Sam Jury, of Disasters of Peace - a creative initiative that encompasses research, writing, making and curating.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Private Universe

Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michał Oleszczyk

Chapter 1. Boro: Escape Artist

Kuba Mikurda

Chapter 2. Borowczyk’s Kunstkamera

Marcin Giżycki

Chapter 3. Animated Bodies: A Conversation Between Kuba Mikurda and Jakub Woynarowski

Chapter 4. Cruel Imagination: Borowczyk’s Post-Traumatic Surrealism

Iwona Kurz

Chapter 5. The Postcard Never Sent: Guy de Maupassant and Rosalie Prudent’s Cinematic Confession

Kamila Kuc

Chapter 6. Boro: The Guide for the Perplexed

Fernando F. Croce

Chapter 7. Borowczyk’s Serial Labyrinth: From Goto, Isle of Love (1968) to Behind Convent Walls (1977)

James Snazell

Chapter 8. Immoral Toys: On Borowczyk’s A Private Collection (1974)

Edwin Carels

Chapter 9. The Beast with Two Backs: On Borowczyk’s The Beast (1975)

Philip Warnell

Chapter 10. Laughter in the Doll House: On Victorian Surrealism in Walerian Borowczyk’s Films

Kamila Wielebska

Chapter 11. Enjoying Excess: A Bataillean Interpretation of Story of Sin (1975) by Walerian Borowczyk and Stefan Żeromski

Marta Rabikowska

Chapter 12. The Beach, the Bubble and the Boudoir: The Meeting-Spaces of Walerian Borowczyk and André Pieyre de Mandiargues

Jonathan Owen

Chapter 13. Sex & the Sacred: The Obstacles to Desire Becoming its Objects

Jakub Majmurek

Chapter 14. Reflecting on The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)

Budd Wilkins

Chapter 15. The Perils of Emmanuelle: A Conversation between Simon Abrams, Odie Henderson, and Michał Oleszczyk

Chapter 16. Revisiting Love Rites (1988)

Kevin Lee

Contributors Biographies

Filmography

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2020
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	1-78920-818-1 / 1789208181
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-818-4 / 9781789208184
Zustand	Neuware