By Juraj Kukoč Croatian cinema has never been a cinema of spectacle, neither when it was a part of Yugoslav cinema nor after it gained its independence. Croatian cinema has rather been a cinema of structurally coherent low-key dramas often situated in narrow spaces. Even in the genre of partisan films (World War II films)…
By Alexander Donev Metodi Andonov, the director of The Goat Horn (Козият рог, Bulgaria, 1972), entered the cinema in the early 1960s. This particular period of socialist film production in Bulgaria is characterized by the contradictory nature of the cultural policy and the anti-Stalinist course that began in the mid-1950s. Gradually it became increasingly clear…
By Connor McMorran On 13th November 1970, a young textile worker named Jeon Tae-il protested harsh working conditions by self-immolating and running through the streets shouting, “Obey the Labour Standards Act!”. Though Jeon’s solitary act was not the first protest concerning labour standards in South Korea, it nevertheless has retrospectively become, as Bruce Cummings states,…
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By Božidar Zečević Last week marked 110 years since the premiere of the first Serbian feature film Karađorđe (The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Vožd Karađorđe, October 1911) directed by Čiča Ilija Stanojević and produced by the first Serbian film producer Svetozar Botorić. This anniversary, though not exactly ‘round’, is significant for the spirit…
By Leandro Varela Though the short film form was, until 1950’s Argentina, usually associated to early silent films, newsreels, sponsored films, animated serials and home movies, we do find a series of modern short films or predecessors to the modern short film which precede this decade. These came in the form of noteworthy amateur films,…
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