Author Archive for: ‘Matilda Mroz’

Framing loss and figuring grief in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida

Abstract: This article concentrates on the formal and aesthetic aspects of Pawel Pawlikowski’s 2013 film Ida in the context of an increasingly visible interest in the history of Polish-Jewish relations in Poland, and with the loss of its Jewish communities in the Holocaust. The film encourages us to pose certain questions: how can something that is no longer present be …

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