Marek Hendrykowski Research Articles

Ballada o adaptacji — gdzie kryje się sens kolejnej pieśni o Narayamie?

The main purpose of this article is to analyze the text of Shichiro Fukazawa’s The Ballad of Narayama, its two Japanese film adaptations by Keisuke Kinoshita and Shohei Imamura, and to explain the idea behind another attempt by cinema and cinema audiences to assimilate the story into the changing film discourse. Referring both to classical and postmodern theories of adaptation of literature represented in the works of Alicja Helman and Marek Hendrykowski, and to current film studies strategies, the author deconstructs the movies, describes the differences in adaptation processes, and looks for their causes, using historical and anthropological contexts. The results of the analysis are contrasted with the reception of the films by Polish critics who attempted to interpret Imamura’s film by emphasizing its animal motifs and often juxtaposed it with the highly theatrical manner of the earlier work by Kinoshita.

Najkrótszy kurs tragikomedii PRL: Rejs Marka Piwowskiego

The tragicomic finale to a costume ball on a ship sailing into night-time darkness was already ‚conceived’ when passengers first stepped onto the gangway. The Cruise is a mix of genres (as was known from the ancient geneological theory of genus mixtum), because situational comedy and sociodrama co-create a genre as broken as tragicomedy, hence „If Rejs is considered a comedy, do not forget that it is a mocking comedy, streaked with despair, as bitter as gall” (Marek Hendrykowski).

Najkrótszy kurs tragikomedii PRL: Rejs Marka Piwowskiego

The tragicomic finale to a costume ball on a ship sailing into night-time darkness was already ‚conceived’ when passengers first stepped onto the gangway. The Cruise is a mix of genres (as was known from the ancient geneological theory of genus mixtum), because situational comedy and sociodrama co-create a genre as broken as tragicomedy, hence „If Rejs is considered a comedy, do not forget that it is a mocking comedy, streaked with despair, as bitter as gall” (Marek Hendrykowski).

Reality as a feeling – a feeling as reality. On the film by Joseph Cedar, Footnote

Hendrykowski Marek, Reality as a feeling – a feeling as reality. On the film by Joseph Cedar, Footnote. “Images” vol. XXV, no. 34. Poznań 2019. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. 57–xx. ISSN 1731-450X. DOI 10.14746/i.2019.34.04.
 This analytical study by Marek Hendrykowski is an attempt to re-read one of the most valuable contemporary films of Israeli production, Footnote, written and directed by Joseph Cedar. The author paid particular attention to the specific way of conducting a seemingly dependent narration, skillfully combining the image of external reality with the sphere of thought and the feelings of the main character.

Z historii polskiego performansu. Happening, performans, intermedialność

Marek Hendrykowski’s case study shows the original idea of The Salon Niezależnych’s performances, one of the most spectacular events of 1970s Polish student counter-culture.

The temple of the new faith. Film images of the construction of the Palace of Culture 1952–1955

The first study of its kind, Marek Hendrykowski’s paper examines frame by frame the symbolic role of the construction of the Palace of Culture in the ideological context of the Stalinist period and its emergence into the realm of public discourse in the early 1950s.

Gorzkie kino. O Okupacji w 26 obrazach Lordana Zafranovicia

Analysis and interpretation of the film fresque made by Croatian director Lordan Zafranović (1978), a masterpiece of European art cinema of 70s. Marek Hendrykowski’s study describes relationship between poetics of experience and aesthetics of shock. It also expresses the importance of mythical perspective (Babel Tower) and its meaning as the factor of common consciousness in keeping memory of the past in art and life of contemporary societies.

Strzał z dystansu. O Pierwszej piątce Stanisława Barańczaka

Marek Hendrykowski’s article provides an analysis and interpretation of Baranczak’s well-known poem “Pierwsza piątka” [The First Five], whose main characters are the basketball legends of Boston Celtics, NBA champions on many occasions.

Great semantic figures in film

Great semantic figures in film This study is devoted to the key issue for any research on film, film art and audiovisual communication - great semantic figures. Marek Hendrykowski extrapolates the repertoire of basic concepts developed for decades in literary science (author, reader, narrator, narration, character, time, space, events, plot, style, composition, etc.) into academic film studies. Following important scientific ideas formulated half a century ago by the eminent literary theorist Janusz Slawinski, Hendrykowski stresses that the scientific sense of using these categories is not limited only to cataloguing them.

Wokół współczesnej sztuki dramatycznej w Polsce

Polish contemporary drama (which is represented by a range of authors, from Tadeusz Rozewicz and Slawomir Mrozek, Janusz Glowacki, Wieslaw Myśliwski, Eustachy Rylski, Marek Koterski and Tadeusz Slobodzianek to Przemyslaw Wojcieszek, Michal Walczak, Piotr Tomaszuk, Tomasz Man and Dorota Maslowska) seems to be an integral part and a special, local manifestation of profound changes that have taken place in the European and American drama of the 20th and 21st centuries. Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, John Osborne and Edward Albee influenced Polish dramaturgy, i.e. its general concept and philosophy, in many ways. They were pioneers and patrons of this transformation, just as Miron Bialoszewski was in Poland. New Polish dramaturgy continues to go in this direction while looking for modern means of theatrical expression. Marek Hendrykowski examines and describes twenty-one contemporary dramas that are collected in two volumes titled Trans/formacja. Dramat polski po 1989 roku [Trans/formation: An Anthology of Polish Contemporary Drama after 1989], which were edited by Jacek Kopcinski. The author of this article searches for features and “common places” (loci communes) that are typical of this form of art.

Proksemika. Studium z antropologii kulturowej

Marek Hendrykowski’s study deals with the semiotics of interpersonal proxemic relationships in today’s world. When analyzing this issue, the author puts forward three research hypotheses. First, interpersonal relationships that are connected with social space are not on the margins of systems of culture, but constitute a very important characteristic of each such system. Secondly, the traditional ways of defining proxemics, which emphasize the existence of interpersonal barriers,present the complex issues related to this field of science of signs and meanings too narrowly and usually in a schematic manner. And thirdly, the profound changes in proxemic relationships that are taking place in the macrosystem of contemporary culture have a major influence on the functioning of culture itself as well as on how individuals, groups and communities participate in this culture. When analyzed in terms of the proxemics of interpersonal relationships, the cultural ecosystem is not an abstract model but an operating system which governs the daily living conditionsof individuals, groups and communities.

Jeszcze o adaptacji. W odpowiedzi Sewerynie Wysłouch

Marek Hendrykowski’s paper provides certain remarks and necessary explanations in response to Seweryna Wyslouch’s polemic (“A film adaptation – a translation or montage?”, published in Przestrzenie Teorii no. 22, 2014).

Tarkowski w Łodzi

Tarkowski in Łodź Exhaustively researched, Marek Hendrykowski’s study devoted to young Polish director Michal Tarkowski includes in-depth analysis and new readings of his student films (documentaries and features) made in the late 1970s in Lodz Film School. The author argues that in several respects Tarkowski’s etudes were perfect examples illustrating an original use of art-cinema conventions and forms by a skilful practitioner of what might be called the aesthetics of the bitter parody and contemporary grotesque.

Przerwane śniadanie z Braćmi Mongolfier

The Montgolfier Brothers’ Interrupted Breakfast Marek Hendrykowski’s study presents an analysis of a unique film made in 1979 by the young Polish director Michal Tarkowski during his studies in the Lodz Film School. The author argues that in several respects Tarkowski’s The Montgolfier Brothers’ Interrupted Breakfast is a perfect example illustrating the original use of art-cinema conventions and forms for what might be interpreted as the aesthetics of camp, but also as mediated “landscape of events” (based on a term invented by Paul Virilio).

Nowy dokument historyczny

Methodology of New Film History The article’s author, based on various examples taken from the European documentary tradition, seeks to determine how the particular position of a new generation of found footage films is allocated and viewed in Polish cinemas and in relation to Polish contemporary audiovisual culture. Marek Hendrykowski redefines film editing (found footage film, compilation) as a historical narrative with its own, attractive poetics and successful way of negotiating its prestige and popularity in the public sphere.

Metodologiczne problemy historii powojennego dokumentu filmowego w Polsce

Th e Methodological Problems of Studies on the History of Polish Postwar Documentary The author discusses the narratives and stereotypical (ideological) point of view as a matrix for constructing an overly simple image of the Polish documentary in the postwar period (1944–1955) as shadowed in the untruth of political discourse. In Marek Hendrykowski’s opinion this particular period in Polish documentary film was much more complicated and multi perspectived (in a “dialogical” sense) as a research object posing new questions and opening new perspectives for film historians.

Dramaturgia "Dwóch ludzi z szafą"

The Dramaturgy of Roman Polański’s Two Men with a Wardrobe Marek Hendrykowski’s case study on Polański’s famous student etude Two Men with a Wardrobe reconstructs this wonderful short movie take-by-take: a must for anyone who cares about cinema as art. The young (24 years old) director, together with a team of talented colleagues (cameraman Maciej Kijowski, actors Jakub Goldberg and Henryk Kluba, director’s assistant Andrzej Kostenko and film music composer and jazzman Krzysztof Komeda), demonstrated a very modern way of thinking about the art of the moving image and about the various possibilities hidden in the simple poetics of screen drama. From its opening scene on the beach to the dramatic and nostalgic ending with a comeback to the sea, the film charts two men’s struggles on the difficult path to becoming independent human beings enjoying their own freedom.

Scenariusz filmowy jako inspiracja

Screenplay is a multifunctional project written by screenwriter or screenwriters for preparing next phases of film production. Changing and many times transformed forms of screenplay belong to the nature of screenwriting. Literary vision of film changes several times being result of synergy and typical work in progress: from general idea and high concept, through story, treatment, scalette, first draft and certain number of drafts, to final draft, director’s draft and shooting script. Marek Hendrykowski’s study describes and explains these terms as forms of literary film creation in three complementary aspects: creative re-vision, rewriting and remodeling.

Autobus Linkego jako parodia PRL. Studium intertekstualne

Marek Hendrykowski’s study is concerned with the close-reading analysis and interpretation of the Autobus (1955–1961) oil on canvas painted by Bronisław Wojciech Linke. This masterpiece of Polish peinture of the 1950s is deeply related to history and conditions of human life in Poland and other East European countries after World War II where everyday life is based on ideology imposed on society. Linke’s peinture gives emblematic ironic image of it created as an anti-social realist protest based on paradigm of Polish culture and art of the period.

Wokół definicji parodii filmowej

The revision of key topics that are related to film parody. The crucial question of Marek Hendrykowski’s research sounds as follows: what is the semiotic mechanism that gives parodistic effect expressed in the language of motion pictures? According to the author, conditio sine qua non of each parody are: incorrectness, caricatural exaggeration, comic effect, deconstruction, pars destruens and new meaning of old characteristic elements confronting the audience and its common memory. In the light of new reading and revised definition of this term, film parody is not a separate genre but rather meta-genre in its relations to many other film genres and individual screen performances being object of parody