ПОЭТИКА ФРАГМЕНТАРНОСТИ В ФИЛЬМЕ И. БУРКОВСКИ-ЯКОБСЕН “MANS MĪĻĀKAIS KARŠ”

Abstract

The article considers the autobiographical film “Mans mīļākais karš” by the Latvian director Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen from the point of view of the poetics of fragmentation. We pay attention to the conceptual combination of animation and archival footage in Burkovska’s film and come to the conclusion that it can be understood as an autofiction: through an animated self-portrait, the di-rector emphasizes the difference between two autobiographical subjects, the unreliability of the autobiographer’s memory, and dramatizes the children’s perception of the world. Apart from that, the film connects fragments of personal story of the director with other people’s stories and re-flections on the history of Latvia, which allows to represent the autobiographer’s childhood as an echo of a collective trauma and to indicate the ways of healing form it.