Abstract
The author presents the cinematographer and director Jolanta Dylewska, striving to define her cinematographic style. Although Dylewska began working independently as a cinematographer only after the turn of 1989, her position in the history of Polish and European cinema can be determined through awareness of her female pioneership in this profession, set against the background of generations of graduates of the Cinematography Department at the Lodz Film School. The researcher focuses on films that are the result of Dylewska’s collaboration with transnational directors, Agnieszka Holland (In the Darkness, Spoor) and Sergey Dvortsevoy (Tulpan, Ayka). The cinematographer denies that she has developed her own individual style, her goal is to find a style that will communicate the director’s vision. The researcher, however, finds characteristic features in her images, such as telling stories through landscapes and faces, including animals, and immersing the viewer in images – by using light and sharpness and bringing all the cinematographer’s technical expertise into play.
Highlights
Jolanta Dylewska is the first Polish female cinematographer successfully “fulfilling herself ” in the realm of feature films
In 2011, at Camerimage Festival, the acknowledgment of her work in Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness took the form of the Golden Frog – it made Jolanta Dylewska the first female winner3 of the main award of the most important competition of this most prestigious event dedicated to the art of cinematography
For Jolanta Dylewska it was important that a viewer empathized with Ayka, a similar conclusion can be drawn after analysing the visual means applied to In Darkness, where the cinematographer “placed” the viewers in a situation identical to that of the characters’, “immersed” them into an image, what I understand as an absolute control over the receivers’ perception
Summary
Jolanta Dylewska is the first Polish female cinematographer successfully “fulfilling herself ” in the realm of feature films. In 2011, at Camerimage Festival, the acknowledgment of her work in Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness took the form of the Golden Frog – it made Jolanta Dylewska the first female winner3 of the main award of the most important competition of this most prestigious event dedicated to the art of cinematography.
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