KAROL IRZYKOWSKIS VIEW ON COMEDY FILM. HUMILIATION AND TRIUMPH OF MATTER IN REALM OF MOTION (Karola Irzykowskiego poglady na komedie filmowa. Ponizenie i triumf materii w Krolestwie Ruchu)

Silent burlesque has a special place in Karol Irzykowski's early 20th century views on cinema. In particular in the films of Max Linder, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and other great comedians he saw the potential for creating the ideal film art. Irzykowski valued the dynamism and ingenuity of those film artists. Burlesque comedies also were a fantastic reflection of the relation between man and matter - which according to Irzykowski was what defined cinema. For the contemporary observer what appears interesting is the critic's view on human body as the object of performance. In many comedies it became a foreign thing, governed by the rules of inanimate matter.