Iluminace, 2003 (vol. 15), issue 2
Articles
Kine(o)tic Age
Michal Pacvoň
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):5-16 
This philosophical essay, inspired by the work of Paul Virilio, especially his book War and Film, focuses on the development of two phenomena: the transformation of perception associated with the increase in speed and the impact of the development of technical images on perception.
Cinema Ins't See, It's I Fly
Paul Virilio
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):17-34
This translation of a chapter from Paul Virilio's War and Film looks at historical evidence of the use of the camera and the camera in wars and the depiction of wars using film stock. The application of technical innovations such as aircraft in capturing warfare.
Networks of Art, the Film Avant-Garde, and the Coming of Sound
Malte Hagener
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):35-47
The author deals with the European film avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s.
Documentary Film and the Modernist Avant-Garde
Bill Nichols
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):49-72
The birth of documentary film in early cinema and its creators. The relationship of documentary film to the modernist avant-garde. Narrative structure and modernist practices. The development of documentary after 1939.
Deserter and "Deserters". "Red" and "White" Russians and Weimar Cinema
Milan D. Klepikov
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):73-87
Origin and analysis of the film Deserter by Vsevolod Pudovkin. The influence of the German environment on Pudovkin's work. Russian film emigration and its application abroad, especially in Germany. Sergei Eisenstein's Berlin sojourns, his relationship to German cinema, and a brief overview of the reception of Eisenstein's films in the Weimar Republic.
Editions and Materials
Concentration Ghetto
André Bazin
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):107-110
A 1952 article by French critic André Bazin reflects on the reception of Alfred Radok's film The Long Road abroad at the time of its creation, while demonstrating an example of Bazin's style.
Interviews
Virtual Life and Film. An Interview with David Norman Rodowick
Petr Szczepanik, Jakub Kučera
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):89-106
An interview with film theorist and aesthetician David Norman Rodowick on the occasion of his lecture in Brno in April 2003. Rodowick discusses the academic focus of some film studies departments in the USA, classical film theory and the digitalization of media.
Horizon
Flusser's Communicology
Josef Moucha
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):121-123
Review of the publication by Vilém Flusser: Komunikológia.
Double-view
Archeology of the Family Story
Mária Ferenčuhová
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):111-115
An analysis of Luchino Visconti's film Stars of the Big Dipper.
Mystery of Stars (of the Charle's Wain)
Helena Bendová
Iluminace 2003, 15(2):117-119
An analysis of Luchino Visconti's film Stars of the Big Dipper.