Faculty Member, Communication and Creative Arts
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Darwin College
About
My current research project examines the cinematographic strategies employed by Polish filmmakers during the Socialist period to address complex historical and social issues without unduly antagonizing the censors. This study utilizes the archival material contained in the National Film Archive in Warsaw, and as such provides an intersection between the rich body of theory relating to spectatorship and cinematic experience, and recorded empirical responses to thematic, temporal and spatial configurations of specific films.
Within this project, I am currently focusing on how war films of the fifties and sixties depicted traumatic wartime events, and attempted to commemorate groups such as the non-communist Home Army at a time when it was forbidden to do so.
I am also involved in a project, funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) entitled 'Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine', based in the Department of Slavonic Studies in Cambridge. For this project, I examine contemporary Polish films that deal with issues of history, historiography, mourning, and memory.
I am also very interested in temporality in cinema, especially in the works of Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Krzysztof Kieslowski. A monograph on this subject, adapted from my PhD thesis, is due to appear next year.
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