Cinema cinemas

This is not Jean-Luc Godard in focus of Cinema Cinemas. The camera’s eye – as it usually happens in films – is concentrated on actor. Fragments of opinions of the greatest directors devoted to acting make up a complex portrait of relations between the filmmaker and person playing the part. Orson Welles, Godard, Jean Seberg speak about acting, but also actors themselves, e.g. Charlotte Gainsbourg.

One after another, the masters of cinema define their attitude to actors’ presence during shooting and on screen. The most important questions are asked – is actor a means to implement the director’s concept or a creator in full right, may he be used as an auxiliary figure? Opinions about the meaning of acting are not controversial – none of the directors treats an actor like an object; however, every one of them casts new light on the actors’ work and their contribution to the creation of a film.

Particular segments were illustrated by fragments of the films, but they also differ in scenery, against which the arti

sts are shown. Orson Welles speaks bombarded with journalists’ questions, Godard expresses his opinions in a taxi, Charlotte is filmed in a train. Acting is depicted as a process of transformation and constant motion. This is a term that can’t be captured in a static frame.

Agnieszka Jakimiak