PT Journal
AU Hubacek, T
TI Direct Professionalisation of Directors in Animation
SO Iluminace
PY 2024
BP 93
EP 120
VL 36
IS 1
DI 10.58193/ilu.1773
WP https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-202401-0004.php
DE professionalisation; amateur film; animated film; Short Film; Jan Pos
SN 0862397X
AB The presented study focuses on a remarkable phenomenon of Czechoslovak animated cinema. In the 1970s, Czechoslovakia witnessed a unique combination of two different worlds - amateur and animated film. Amateur directors of animated films could proceed directly to professional directing without obtaining a proper university film education or the need to undergo previous studio practice. This was made possible for five of them on the basis of their previous successes at amateur festivals and their unique artistic style. For these purposes, the text defines the term "direct professionalisation" and explains its aspects. The study traces the directors' entry into the professional sphere, their continuity or discontinuity with amateur work and the change in their creative styles necessitated by their work in state film studios. Besides the directors themselves, the study focuses on the figure who fundamentally made their professionalisation possible - Jan Pos, dramaturge of Kratky film, who maintained close contacts with the amateur cinema world, can be considered a broker according to the terminology of actor network theory. As described in this thesis, the process of so-called direct professionalisation did not only occur in Bohemia, but also in Slovakia. Around the same time, Rudolf Urc, also a dramaturg, was a broker there. His position is roughly comparable to that of Jan Pos, and it is possible that these professionalisation processes also occurred in other countries with state-socialist modes of film production.
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