Iluminace, 2017 (vol. 29), issue 3
Editorial
Screen Industries in East-Central Europe: The Long 1990s
Petr Szczepanik
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):5-7 
Editorial of the issue focusing on the film industry in Eastern Europe
Theme Articles
Restructuring a Cinema That Didn't Exist. The Romanian Film Industry of the 1990s
Claudiu Turcuș
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):9-26 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1528
This article documents and describes the ways in which the Romanian film industry was restructured in the 1990s. It also explores the structural, legislative, financial and ideological continuities of this period with the manner in which this field of cultural production was organized in the 1970s and the 1980s. Using a contextual analysis of several documents from the National Archives of Romania (RoFilm Fund, 1986-1989), interviews with the most influential film directors of that period as primary research data, and scholarly sources (both in Romanian and English), I argue that the collapse of the state-socialist mode of film production, financing,...
Phoenix Burning: The Collapse of the Fiction Film Studio and the Educational Film Studio in Łódź in the Early 90s
Konrad Klejsa, Michał Dondzik, Jarosław Grzechowiak
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):27-47 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1529
In the early 1990s, the system of financing Polish film productions based on subsidies from the Ministry of Culture budget collapsed. This resulted in huge financial problems for the film studios located in Łódź: WFF (Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych - Feature Film Studio) and WFO (Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych - Educational Film Studio). This paper analyses multiple layers of that crisis, including its origins as well as various contradictory ideas from the period as to how the assets and heritage of film institutions situated in the city once called the 'Polish Hollywood' should be managed. These attempts - undertaken simultaneously by the Film Industry...
Eventization and Targeting in Czech Theatrical Distribution after 1989
Jan Hanzlík
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):49-64 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1530
The article focuses on two marketing strategies that have been adopted by Czech film distributors and cinema operators after 1989: the increasing trend of screening films at various events rather than in regular distribution and the related rise in the number of film festivals, and the targeting of specific audience groups by distributors and cinemas. These trends are apparent in the distribution of both blockbusters and arthouse films, although different means are employed and different activities are endorsed by arthouse distributors and cinemas than those distributing or screening films by the Hollywood majors.
Charting Post-Underground Nostalgia. Anachronistic Practices of the Post-Velvet Revolution Rock Scene
Tomáš Jirsa
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):65-86 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1531
The 1990s music scene in East-Central Europe has often been described as a melting pot of various genres wherein different official and unofficial musicians from the socialist era merged with all kinds of contemporary Western impulses. This begs the question: did all those new influences necessarily lead to a change of taste and expectations among audiences or even to a change in the music industry's policies? In contrast to the popular narrative of the dynamic post-Velvet Revolution transformation of culture and society, this essay offers a contrasting view of a particularly anachronistic tendency that unfolded during the transition, the mover of...
Horizon
Brno Film Culture from the Perspective of "New Cinema History" (Lucie Česálková, Pavel Skopal /eds./, Filmové Brno. Dějiny lokální filmové kultury)
Zbyněk Sviták
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):97-103
Book review by Lucie Česálková and Pavel Skopal Filmové Brno. Dějiny lokální filmové kultury.
Copyright for Film from the European Perspective (Pascal Kamina, Film Copyright in the European Union /2nd Edition/)
Ivan David
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):104-107
Book review by Pascal Kamin Film Copyright in the European Union
Film Distribution and Its Broader Contexts (Konference Fascinace, 3. ročník, 25. - 26. října 2017, Mezinárodní festival dokumentárního filmu Ji.hlava)
Sylva Poláková
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):108-111
Article about the Fascination Conference at the International Documentary Film Festival Ji.hlava.
Film Industry Voices
The Life of Film in the Era of the Big American VOD Players
Diana Tabakov
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):87-91
The 21st International Documentary Film Festival Ji.hlava featured a panel discussion reflecting on the dispute between the Cannes Film Festival and Netflix, which highlighted the differences between Europe and America. Diana Tabakov, Head of Acquisitions at the international VOD platform Doc Alliance Films (Dafi lms.com), led the conversation of film professionals on what force will prevail in the power struggle over European film, cinema and film festivals.
Ad Fontes
Guba-Film
Kristýna Doležalová
Iluminace 2017, 29(3):92-96 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1533
The archival holdings of Guba-Film, which was founded in January 19331 and which throughout its existence has been linked to the central figure of the company's founder and owner, Ludvík Guba.