A ética do olhar: alteridade, experiência e mimesis no decálogo de Krzysztof Kieslowski

Abstract

We propose here a reflection on the interface between film and anthropology. Our intention is to analyze the specificity of the relationship between cinema and society, in thinking of film as an art which, like photography, allows for the resurgence of “mimesis”, which in turn is responsible for causing a “sensible knowledge” and thus updating the “experience” (Erfahrung). Considering the impact and the technical and thematic innovations of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue (1988), and also considering that cinema provokes experiences, these concepts will be used from an anthropological perspective, in order to analyze how the films that comprise the The Decalogue series, both through their formal structure and narrative, problematize human relations in the contemporary world.