Reading Jolanta Dylewska’s Po-lin

Abstract

This reading of is an attempt to determine authorial intentions of Jolanta Dylewska through recognition of the means she employed to bring back to life on the screen the lost world of Jews that had been living in Poland for centuries. Dylewska’s intention was primarily to express the sense of loss and to convey this feeling in viewers. It is accomplished through the process of externalization of this list world, creation of emotional memory, visualization and evoking of the value and beauty of this destroyed culture, created in.