Symposium "Identities
in the Post-Communist Era - Current Trends in Cinematography of the Acceding
Countries"
Bellevue-Saal: 25.04. to 27.04.
While the previous goEast-symposia were historically oriented, presenting
a number of discoveries from Eastern European archives, the next two years
will focus on the current cinema of the new member-states of the EU. In
2004, films from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia will
be examined; in 2005, films from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
will follow. The symposium will ask how their directors define “identity”
in these times of historic change, and how they treat the subject aesthetically.
The directors’ identity as artists will be examined, but also the
construction of national identity and last, but not least, a mutual European
identity in the future.
The end of the “real socialism” offered filmmakers in Central
and Eastern Europe the long-awaited freedom from the ideological paternalism
of bureaucratic censors. But it also came with a wide range of deep structural
changes which relegated the battle cries for artistic self-determination
to the sidelines. The post-socialist changes came too fast and proved
to be too complex for these artists to think them through and at the same
time find their own identity. Overcoming the trauma of totalitarianism
proves to be a psychologically, socially, economically and also culturally
complex, drawn-out process.
In addition to the twelve films of the symposium, the speakers will highlight
further observations with video-excerpts. The interdisciplinary symposium
is open to all interested parties.
THE LECTURES:
Dr. Hans-Joachim Schlegel
Film historian, critic and journalist, head of the symposium, Berlin
“Identities in the Post-Communist Era”
25.04. / 10 a.m.
Isabelle de Keghel
Centre for Eastern European Studies – University of Bremen
“Constructions of Identities in the Post-Communist
Visual Culture”
25.04. / 2.30 p.m.
Opening of the symposium:
LOVE
EACH OTHER
Directed by Pál Sándor, Károly Makk and Miklós
Janscó
Caligari: 25.04. / 5.30 p.m.
Živa Emeršic
Documentary editor in Slovenian TV, Ljubljana
“Problems of Identity Reflected in Slovenian
Television”
Co-Speaker:
Želimir Žilnik,
Film and TV director, Novi Sad
26.04. / 9.30 a.m.
Jan Gogola
Film director, editor and journalist, lecturer at the Film Academy FAMU,
Prague
“In Search of a Place of One’s Own.
Chances and Problems of Socio-Cultural Identity in the Czech Film Industry”
26.04. / 3.30 p.m.
Zuzana Gindl-Tatárova
Scriptwriter and dean of the Academy of Film and Television (VŠMU)
in Bratislava
“Slovakian Films in-between the Past and
the Future”
27.04. / 9.30 p.m.
Followed by:
András Bálint Kovács
Associate professor at the Institute of Art & Communication, ELTE,
and director of the film studies programme, Budapest
“Identities of the Inner Self”
27.04. / 3.30 p.m.: Closing discussion
SOME
SECRETS / VÝLET
CZECH REPUBLIC 2002
Directed by: Alice Nellis, 100 MIN
Caligari: 22.04. / 11.30 a.m.
Alice Nellis will be present (to be confirmed).
DUST
GAMES / HRY PRACHU
CZECH REPUBLIC 2001
Directed by: Martin Marecek, 86 MIN
Caligari: 23.04. / 11.30a.m.
FOOD / JÍDLO
GREAT BRITAIN / CZECH REPUBLIC 1992
Directed by: Jan Švankmajer, 16 MIN
Bambi: 23.04. / 1.30 p.m.
Double programme with EVERYTHING I LIKE.
EVERYTHING
I LIKE / VŠETKO, CO MÁM RÁD
SLOVAKIA 1992
Directed by: Martin Šulík, 90 MIN
Bambi: 23.04. / 1.30 p.m.
Double programme with FOOD.
EAST
FROM THE WEST OR THE DISCREET CHARME OF THE MEDIA / NYUGATTÓL KELETRE,
AVAGY A MÉDIA DISZKRÉT BÁJA
HUNGARY 1993
Directed by: István Dárday, Gyorgyi Szalai,100 MIN
Bambi: 23.04. / 10 p.m.
IT'S
BETTER TO BE WEALTHY AND HEALTHY THAN POOR AND ILL / LEPŠIE BYT BOHATÝ
A ZDRAVÝ AKO CHUDOBNÝ A CHORÝ
CZECH REPUBLIC 1992
Directed by: Juraj Jakubisko, 108 MIN
Bambi: 24.04. / 1.30 p.m.
SWEET
EMMA, DEAR BÖBE / ÉDES EMMA, DRÁGA BÖBE
HUNGARY 1991
Directed by: István Szabó, 90 MIN
Bambi: 24.04. / 10 p.m.
LOVE
EACH OTHER / SZERESSÜK EGYMÁST GYEREKEK
HUNGARY 1995
Directed by: Pál Sándor, Károly Makk, Miklós
Jancsó, 95 MIN
Caligari: 25.04. / 5.30 p.m. Opening of the symposium.
DAMNATION
/ KÁRHOZAT
HUNGARY 1987
Directed by: Béla Tarr, 116 MIN
Bambi: 25.04. / 10 p.m.
THE
FORTRESS EUROPE / TVRDNJAVA EVROPA
SLOVENIA 2001
Directed by: Želimir Žilnik, 80 MIN
Caligari: 26.04. / 1.30 p.m.
Želimir Žilnik will be present.
NEW
HYPERION OR FREEDOM, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY / NOVÝ HYPERION ANEB
VOLNOST, ROVNOST, BRATRSTVÍ
CZECH REPUBLIC 1992
Directed by: Karel Vachek 207 MIN
Bellevue-Saal: 26.04. / 8 p.m.
EURÓPÁBÓL
EURÓPÁBA / VON EUROPA NACH EUROPA / FROM EUROPE INTO EUROPE
HUNGARY 2003
Directed by: Pál Sándor, István Szabó, Miklós
Jancsó, e.a. 36 MIN
The episode by Miklós Jancsó will be shown during the opening
program of the festival, while the other episodes will be shown during
the symposium.
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