Palimpsesty przestrzeni, czyli o potrzebie innych map. Przypadek filmowego spaceru edukacyjnego

Abstract

The article explores urban space as a palimpsest in which traces of the past—particularly the Jewish heritage of Białystok—are obscured, erased, or intangible. Drawing on the co-author’s project The Dreamed History of Cinema in Podlasie, it proposes the creation of a “cinematic mental map” as a basis for an educational film walk. This map does not reflect the city’s geographical layout but rather its layers of memory, emotion, and narrative tied to specific figures and cinematic events. The paper reflects on the map as a storytelling tool and on the memory landscape as a cultural construct. The film walk becomes a ritualised practice of reintroducing absent histories into the contemporary urban space through imagination, knowledge, and storytelling.