Another Day of Life (Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 2018): an epic review of Kapuscinski from animation cinema

Abstract

Another Day of Life (2018) is a European co-production promoted by the Spaniard Raúl de la Fuente that adapts the homonymous text by Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski, published in 1976. The film combines the genres of animation and documentary by combining real images with recreations made by computer. Although the script is based on the text of the Polish reporter, its generic complexity makes its cinematographic transfer particularly complicated. The hybridization between journalistic chronicle and autobiography proposed by Kapu?ci?ski becomes in the hands of the filmmakers a kind of hagiography of the character. In this sense, there is a rereading of his message from more marked ideological keys that, however, formally adopt the Hollywood blockbuster language. This research proposes a comparison between both works to unravel their main points of divergence. Among other aspects, the development of our work will occupy the reconstruction of the authorial profile of Kapu?ci?ski, the tracing of the main influences in the transmedialization process, the examination of the features of the classical epic in the configuration of an aesthetic close to that of the comic and the video game, and the analysis of the ideological subversion that occurs in the transfer carried out.