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The World in Hyper(de)Scription

In the contemporary world of art where everything has been said and done, where post-modernism is being replaced by alter-modernism and even digital art is turning into post-digital, any fresh new genre must have a warm welcome! Such a genre: the film-poem, emerging from the crossroads of literature, film and animation is the main focus of the digital monograph on Katarzyna Giełżyńska's poetry collection C()n Du It. Independent Polish editors and critics take a closer look at the film-poems and analyze them from the perspectives of animated text, cyberpoetry, moving image and visual poetry. Through these critical lenses Giełżyńska's objects appear as ironic, personal, cross-medial statements. The Polish author sets herselfan ambitious task: "to play at the world's own game" by describing it in a fast-paced, polimedial, synesthetic way. Resembling "animated posters", the film-poems reflect the condition of the contemporary artist and her cultural, linguistic and technological context and try to redefine the answers to the old question: how to describe the world? who is the author? what is the difference between the human and non-human? The message carried by the film-poems is quite

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