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ližoj prošlosti.<br />

U filmu izraelske umjetnice Yael Bartana,<br />

Mary Koszmary [Noćne more], mladi<br />

lider poljske ljevice i urednik ljevičarskog<br />

časpopisa Krytyka Polityczna, Slawomir<br />

Sierakowski, poziva 3 milijuna Židova da<br />

se vrate u Poljsku i da promijene život 40<br />

milijuna Poljaka. Govor Szeierakowskog,<br />

sastavljen isključivo za film zajedno sa sociologinjom<br />

Kingom Dunin, in medias res<br />

stavlja traume i simptome poljskog društva<br />

i povijesti te dekonstruira najmračniju<br />

stranu poljske kolektivne nesvijesti.<br />

U njegovom obraćanju povijesne se<br />

činjenice tek daju naslutiti, dok književne<br />

reference i slike evociraju uhićenja, pogrome<br />

i deportacije Židova. Njegov govor<br />

koristi dobro poznat jezik antisemitske,<br />

katoličke i komunističke propag<strong>and</strong>e, ali<br />

s pozitivnom inverzijom, propagirajući<br />

pomirenje u ime zajedničke budućnosti.<br />

“Poziv na povratak” razotkriva višeslojnu<br />

poljsku povijest, potisnute demone koji su<br />

se pretvorili u košmare, koje treba prihvatiti<br />

i prisvojiti: suradnja s nacistima<br />

i indiferentnost jednog dijela poljskog<br />

stanovništva u židovskim progonima<br />

tijekom 2. svjetskog rata, a i u periodu<br />

poslije rata. Te su teme tek od nedavno aktualne<br />

u poljskoj javnosti, kao i saznanje da<br />

je rad na traumi jedini način ozdravljenja,<br />

zacjelji<strong>van</strong>ja rana i oslobođenja od straha.<br />

Poziv Židovima od strane Poljaka ukazuje<br />

i na ne-mogućnosti i neminovnosti<br />

zajedničkog života u budućnosti te postaje<br />

zrcalo drugih situacija koje se zbivaju<br />

negdje drugdje, u BiH, kao i u ostalim<br />

djelovima Europe. Povratak Židova izazvat<br />

će radikalne promjene. “Vratite se danas<br />

i Poljska će se promijeniti. Europa će se<br />

promijeniti, svijet će se promijeniti. Vratite<br />

se, ne kao sjene prošlosti, već kao nada<br />

u budućnost.”<br />

type image of the Balkans <strong>and</strong> in spite of<br />

creative potential I nevertheless looked<br />

<strong>for</strong> other references in the Polish environment.<br />

One of the interesting sides of life in a<br />

post-socialist, transitional society, when<br />

one is coming from another post-socialist<br />

transitional society is recognising the inevitable<br />

nodes of conflict on the way to liberal<br />

capitalism, the consequences of which<br />

are class differences, cultural <strong>and</strong> spiritual<br />

impoverishment, indifference, lethargy,<br />

lack of solidarity <strong>and</strong> many other things.<br />

Naturally there are differences conditioned<br />

primarily by various historical <strong>and</strong><br />

other contexts, <strong>for</strong> Eastern Europe is not<br />

a uni<strong>for</strong>m phenomenon. It is particularly<br />

interesting to watch how a given society,<br />

its official policy, the media, the intellectual<br />

circles <strong>and</strong> of course contemporary art,<br />

relate to the close <strong>and</strong> distant past.<br />

In the film of Israeli artist Yael Bartana,<br />

Mary Koszmary [Nightmares], the young<br />

leader of the Polish left <strong>and</strong> editor of<br />

the leftish magazine Krytyka Polityczna,<br />

Slawomir Sierakowski, calls upon 3 million<br />

Jews to return to Pol<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> change the<br />

lives of 40 million Poles. The speech of<br />

Sierakowski, composed exclusively <strong>for</strong> the<br />

film with the sociologist King Dunin, reveals<br />

in media res the traumas <strong>and</strong> symptoms<br />

of Polish society <strong>and</strong> history, <strong>and</strong><br />

deconstructs the darkest side of the Polish<br />

collective unconscious. In his appeal the<br />

historical facts can only just be made out,<br />

while the literary references <strong>and</strong> images<br />

evoke the arrests, the pogroms <strong>and</strong> deportations<br />

of the Jews. His speech uses the<br />

familiar language of anti-Semitic, Catholic<br />

<strong>and</strong> communist propag<strong>and</strong>a, but with a<br />

positive inversion, propagating reconciliation<br />

in the name of a common future. “The<br />

call to return” reveals the many layers<br />

of Polish history, the suppressed demons

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