Ostry trip po DMT czy bardo umierania? Potencjał kognitywnych teorii filmu na przykładzie analizy zmienionych stanów świadomości w Enter the Void Gaspara Noè

Abstract

This article shows how films can be used as contemporary research tools in order to get to know people’s inner states, with particular focus on changed states of consciousness such as psychedelic experience and near-death experience. On the basis of cognitive film theory (presented by Tzvetan Todorov, Edward Branigan, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson) that goes beyond aesthetic reception of a film and studies the structures of cognition, the author of the article makes an attempt to analyze the film entitled Enter the Void directed by Gaspar Noè – an example of auteur cinema in two areas: its structures (a subjective view as a stylistic identifier) and its reception (the idea of cognitive schema and the assimilation of new schema, perception and narrative schema) with special attention paid to symbolic schemas (the comparison of Enter the Void – an aesthetic model and Tibetan Book of the Dead – a religious model).