{"id":16545,"date":"2015-03-21T02:44:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T01:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16545"},"modified":"2023-05-22T19:08:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T18:08:55","slug":"somnambulists-a-film-by-mieczyslaw-waskowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/03\/21\/somnambulists-a-film-by-mieczyslaw-waskowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Somnambulists, a film by Mieczyslaw Waskowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2BiFwUzybE0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/waskowski.jpg\" alt=\"waskowski.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2BiFwUzybE0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9-minute film<\/a> by Polish actor and director Mieczyslaw Waskowski was made in 1958. At that time Waskowski&#8217;s swirling blobs of paint in oil or water would have seemed merely abstract; a decade on and they would have unavoidable psychedelic or even cosmic connotations. Stanley Kubrick used similar effects for some of the shots in the Star Gate sequence of <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> only at much higher resolution and camera speed.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-abstract-cinema-archive\/\">The abstract cinema archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 9-minute film by Polish actor and director Mieczyslaw Waskowski was made in 1958. At that time Waskowski&#8217;s swirling blobs of paint in oil or water would have seemed merely abstract; a decade on and they would have unavoidable psychedelic or even cosmic connotations. Stanley Kubrick used similar effects for some of the shots in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/03\/21\/somnambulists-a-film-by-mieczyslaw-waskowski\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Somnambulists, a film by Mieczyslaw Waskowski&#8221;<\/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":[49,7,25,17],"tags":[169,2794,7112,3040],"class_list":["post-16545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-cinema","category-film","category-kubrick","category-psychedelia","tag-2001-a-space-odyssey","tag-chris-parks","tag-mieczyslaw-waskowski","tag-stanley-kubrick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4iR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16545","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=16545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}