Incorporeal Encounters and Affective Relationality in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Véronique
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Krzysztof Kieslowski’s own words, his 1991 film, The Double Life of Véronique, is a “film …about sensibility, presentiments and relationships that are difficult to name, that are irrational ....[It’s about] something that doesn’t exist in the picture alone or in the music alone” (Stok 1993:34). This film, produced in Poland and France, along with his French-produced Three Colours Trilogy of the early 1990s, constitutes the final installment of this Polish-born director’s distinguished career. Over his thirty-year career of directing films and documentaries, Kieslowski repeatedly returned to a particular problematic to which most of his work, includingThe Double Life of Véronique, could be seen as a response. Set within a particular cultural andpolitical history of Europe, Kieslowski’s films sought to express a response to the problematic oflife, and its paradoxical, immanent and yet differential relationship with death, non-life or whatis other than human.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.025 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".