Iluminace, 2021 (vol. 33), issue 2

The Peripheralization of East-Central European Film Cultures on VOD Platforms

Constantin Parvulescu, Jan Hanzlík

Iluminace 2021, 33(2):5-25 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1700  

This article draws on previous research on European digital peripheries and explores the way they are created on the interfaces of VOD (video-on-demand) catalogues. Our analysis distinguishes between quantitative and qualitative peripheralizations and considers both European providers who received subsidies from the EU and global services such as Netflix. It focuses on European film cultures and critically engages the umbrella concept of "European film." The article argues that EU funded VOD platforms tend to favor bigger European film cultures such as France, and disfavor smaller ones such as those from East-Central Europe (Czechia, Romania, Hungary,...

El Dorado of Traitors. Unrealized Production Cycle and Cultural-Political Collisions of Post-War Czechoslovak Cinema

Martin Mišúr

Iluminace 2021, 33(2):27-57 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1701  

This paper provides a view of the genre phenomena from an atypical perspective: It attempts to capture and functionally explain the production cycles in their unrealized form. The paper follows a thematically coherent group of films during a specific limited period, which were considered but not finally produced and to which certain material traces have been preserved. The existence and analytical extraction of these existing traces - made on the example of the stimuli of genetic criticism - will make it possible to look into the history in its unseen and discontinuous form. The idea laid out at the beginning of the study is that the fact that something...

Symbiosis of Fiction and Non-Fiction Methods in Karel Vachek's Unrealized Screenplays

Miloš Kameník

Iluminace 2021, 33(2):59-75 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1702  

This study is focused on unrealized screenplays written by the director Karel Vachek. It deals with nine extant texts of the screenplays: Hero Bohemia, Who Will Watch the Watchman?, Flying Unidentifiable Czech Objects, Czech Regurgitation and Romany, written in the 1960s, Bohemia Docta, written in the second half of the 1970s, What to Do? and Via Lucis, written in exile in the early 1980s, and the Members of the Revival movement and the Revival Movers and Communisum, written after the year 2000. The scripts are briefly introduced and the gradual transformation of their function is described in the article. Since the 1970s, Vachek had not emphasized...

Possibilities of Application of the Principles of Documentation of Conservation-restoration of Arts and Crafts to the Documentation of Film Restoration

Zuzana Bauerová, Tereza Frodlová

Iluminace 2021, 33(2):77-96 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1703  

Conservation of works of fine and applied art is based on an existing legislative and methodological framework in documentation, while the documentation of film restoration interventions is often based only on partial recommendations or practices of individual film archives. This may be due to the fact that the film restoration as an accredited scientific discipline has only been established in recent decades, but also to the fact that the film medium is so specific that established practices and conservation approaches of cultural heritage cannot always be simply applied to it. In addition, film restoration is undergoing a major transformation due...

Digital Frontiers: Meeting Uncertainty (A Review Study)

Benjamin Slavík

Iluminace 2021, 33(2):97-114 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1704  

The aim of the presented study is to describe the relationship between the thinking of the contemporary visual theorist Daniel Strutt and the French post-structuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze; the tension between thought and image is mainly analyzed in this study. In his book The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema, Daniel Strutt introduced the concept of the digital frontier (his own digital image ontology), which is strongly influenced by Deleuze's thinking (on the one hand by the ontological one in the work Difference and Repetition, on the other hand by the one devoted to the image of modern cinema in the book Cinema...

Budulínek and Labyrinth

Jan Bernard

Iluminace 2021, 33(2):115-146 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1705  

Artist, photographer, writer and theorist Václav Zykmund (June 18, 1914 - May 10, 1984) was one of the younger representatives of pre-war and post-war Czech surrealism. He is the founder of two important art groups Ra (1944) and Parabola (1963). His work was influenced by Josef Šíma, Salvator Dalí, Man Ray and André Breton. His close friend was the leading theorist Karel Teige, who led him to surrealism. Zykmund was a communist, but in the period of socialist realism he defended modern art from ideological criticism. Twice in his life he resorted to filmmaking. During the political trials and other repressions of 1949-1953, he became an artist and...

Without Dialogue, Without Co-authorship (Eva Filová - Eva Vženteková, Slovenský štát vo filme: Dokumentárna a hraná tvorba po roku 1945)

Václav Macek

Iluminace 2021, 33(2):147-153 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1706  

Vertical Complexity of Analysis and Interpretation (Zdeněk Hudec, Paul Verhoeven a jeho filmy)

Luboš Ptáček

Iluminace 2021, 33(2):154-157 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1707