{"id":15831,"date":"2014-10-08T02:12:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T01:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15831"},"modified":"2014-10-08T02:12:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T01:12:01","slug":"crime-and-punishment-a-film-by-piotr-dumala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/10\/08\/crime-and-punishment-a-film-by-piotr-dumala\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime and Punishment, a film by Piotr Dumala"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More from the Polish animator, and a stunning, wordless adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel. Crime and Punishment<\/em><\/a> dates from 2000, and utilises the same technique as Dumala’s earlier films\u2014images scratched into a plaster ground\u2014only this time there’s a muted colour palette and considerable depth achieved through cast shadows and blurred objects layered over the drawings. Yuri Norstein<\/a> achieved a similar sense of depth in\u00a0Hedgehog in the Fog<\/em> (1975) and Tale of Tales<\/em> (1979), and Dumala’s film also shares the latter’s umber tones and sombre lighting. The story is pared to its bones, as it would be with a running time of 30 minutes, but it’s still a marvellous adaptation. There’s even a nod to Walls<\/em> when an omnipresent fly disappears for a moment into a hole in the wallpaper.<\/p>\n

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More from the Polish animator, and a stunning, wordless adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel. Crime and Punishment dates from 2000, and utilises the same technique as Dumala’s earlier films\u2014images scratched into a plaster ground\u2014only this time there’s a muted colour palette and considerable depth achieved through cast shadows and blurred objects layered over the drawings. Yuri … Continue reading “Crime and Punishment, a film by Piotr Dumala”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,7],"tags":[6104,2885,3603],"class_list":["post-15831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-film","tag-fyodor-dostoyevsky","tag-piotr-dumala","tag-yuri-norstein"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-47l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}