Iluminace, 2004 (vol. 16), issue 4


Articles

How to Deal with Industrial Films: Methodological Approach

Yvonne Zimmermann

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):5-23  

Introduction to the concept of industrial film and its characteristics and proposal of a methodological approach of serial film analysis combined with contextual historical research.

Industrial Production as Media Practice. The Purport of Industrial Film takes by Example the Company Fried. Krupp, Essen

Vincenz Hediger

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):25-37  

The relationship between industrial production and industrial film, the importance of film for production. Categorisation and research of industrial and economic films. Specific example on the steel film Fried. Krupp, Essen and on its industrial films mainly from 1950-1969.

City Synergies: Promoting Planned Living and the Filmic Avant-garde of the 1920s in Germany

Thomas Elsaesser

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):39-54  

A study of the relationship between cinema and avant-garde architecture in Germany between 1920 and 1929. Capturing issues of the city, urbanism, housing and lifestyle in feature films and documentaries. Avant-garde in architecture and film. Functionalism in relation to cinema.

Cinematographic and Kinetic Themes in Czechoslovak Inter-war Architecture

Jaroslav Anděl

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):55-69  

Relations between film and modern architecture, focusing on cinematographic and kinetic themes in the architecture of interwar Czechoslovakia, among which the cinema as a building type occupies the most important place. The establishment of Czech film studios in Barrandov and Zlín. Film set design and the theme of modern architecture in interwar film production.

Garden on the Glass Hill. Czech Modernity and the Hybrid Relationship with New Media

Lucie Česálková

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):71-88  

The cultural significance of new media and the impact of technological innovations on late 19th century society based on contemporary responses in the press and other contemporary sources.

František Kalivoda - Organiser of the Brno Avantgarde

Zuzana Marhoulová

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):89-117  

The article focuses on the activities of František Kalivoda, who in the early 1930s was actively involved in Brno's cultural life in several fields. He was an important film critic, typographer, architect, editor, editor and organizer of exhibitions, lectures and screenings.

Editions and Materials

Filmmakers and the Communist Power in Czechoslovakia. 1959: A Dramatic Year

Ivan Klimeš

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):129-138  

Introduction to a comprehensive set of documents concerning the events in Czechoslovak cinema in 1959

Banská Bystrica 1959. The Documents in Context of 1th Festival of the Czechoslovak Film

Ivan Klimeš

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):139-222  

A comprehensive collection of documents relating to events in Czechoslovak cinema in 1959, including an ideological assessment of contemporary film production and analysis of several titles (e.g. Three Wishes), a film production plan, the personnel composition of the FSB Artistic Council and creative groups, the status and programme of the First Czechoslovak Film Festival in Banská Bystrica, etc.

Interviews

Among the Science, Mediae, and Art: An undercurrent History of Visual Culture. An Interview with Jaroslav Anděl

Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):119-128  

Jaroslav Anděl, a Czech art historian, graduate of the Department of Photography at FAMU and film critic, answers questions about Czech avant-garde film, his stay in the USA and the relationship between architecture and film.

Horizon

Films at Work

Petr Szczepanik

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):231-234  

Information on the proceedings of the Industrial Film Conference held in Bochum (Germany) in December 2004 under the title Filme, die arbeiten, Internationale Tagung zum Industriefilm.

Dziga Vertov - Factory of the Facts? (The Hindsight for Volume 23 of Le Giornate del cinema muto in Sacile 2004)

Briana Čechová

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):235-240  

Information on the proceedings of the 23rd meeting of film historians, theorists and restorers La Giornate del cinema muto in Sacile 2004. Details the silent phase of Dziga Vertov's work, to which an extensive retrospective was devoted.

Double-view

Beauty Exchange

Zdeněk Hudec

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):223-225  

A review of the documentary Ženy pro měny.

Circulation (Images, Objects, Bodies)

Vít Janeček

Iluminace 2004, 16(4):227-229  

A review of the documentary Ženy pro měny.