Opus – Page 172 – Encyclopædia of the sublime

Władysław Kozakiewicz

In Poland, the Bras d'honneur became known as the Kozakiewicz gesture. Kozakiewicz made the gesture on July 30, 1980 to Russian spectators in the stadium during the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The crowd supporting Soviet jumper Konstantin Volkov booed, hissed, jeered, and whistled during Kozakiewicz's spectacular performance. Having just secured his gold medal position, Kozakiewicz made the gesture in defiance to the Soviet crowd. He later confirmed his dominance over the competition by breaking the world record, clearing at 5.78 meters.

Vegreville egg

Vegreville egg is a giant sculpture of a pysanka, a Ukrainian style Easter egg. It is the largest pysanka in the world.

The Overcoat

The Overcoat is an unfinished animated feature film that has been the main project of acclaimed Russian director and animator Yuri Norstein since 1981. It is based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol with the same name. Around 25 minutes were completed by 2004. The unfinished film has been shown publicly in several exhibitions of Norstein's work around the world and clips of it have been included in a few documentary films about Russian animation and culture. In 2007, Norstein stated that he planned to release the first 30 minutes of the film with a soundtrack into theatres by the end of 2007. However, to date, the film remains unfinished, its production time of over thirty years the longest for any motion picture in history.

Inception

Christopher Nolan's Inception is a movie.

Cerro Paranal

At 2635 metres above sea level in the Atacama Desert of Chile, ESO’s Paranal Observatory is one of the very best astronomical observing sites in the world and is the flagship facility for European ground-based astronomy. It hosts several world-class telescopes; among them are the Very Large Telescope and the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy.

Villa La Gaeta

Situated on the prominent Gaeta peninsula, on the shore of Lake Como, the famous Liberty style villa was used in the film Casino Royale as the residence of Mr White.

Streetwise

Streetwise is a 1984 documentary that looks at the life and lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.

Lipstick

Lipstick is a film that follows a fashion model who is raped by her sister's music teacher. Upon his acquittal in court, he rapes her sister, leading her to enact a brutal revenge.

Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University is the oldest of higher education in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in Europe.

Nudibranch

Nudibranch are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs that shed their shells after their larval stage.