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Wojciech Has (1925-2000) – polish film director – was one of creators venturing not to transcend reality and matter, rather to unveil their other invisible dimension by way of artistic shaping of an image. His film art seems to be the best evidence for overcoming the limitations of substance, i.e. for „image spiritualization” and “naming what escapes comprehension”. I label the fourteen feature films by Has from the years 1957-1988 as a piece of art. The following are meant here: The Noose (Petla) (195...

From the beginning of its history, film has been considered as ideal synergy of art forms, including painting, literature, music and dance. †Moving pictures' on artists and art belong to a particular group of films. Traditionally, Muses were connected with movement. even today, artists produce images of muses dancing in circle: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Thalia, Terpsyhore and Urania. In my article I write about Cinema as †the Tenth Muse', who quickens the imagination of a film dire...