Iluminace, 2020 (vol. 32), issue 1

The History of Czechoslovak / Czech Film in the Mirror of its Economic Data

Tereza Czesany Dvořáková, Antonie Doležalová, Hana Moravcová

Iluminace 2020, 32(1):5-39 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1653  

The study aims to show the potential hidden in the original archive resources of the film industry companies and movies for the economic analysis of the Czechoslovak and Czech film industry in the 20th century in various ideological and economic regimes. The study answers three questions: * how can researchers use the film archive resources for the economic analysis of the film industry; * how can the film archive resources be used for the analysis of the economic decisions of film producers; * what were the economic costs of Czechoslovak and Czech movies from the historical perspective? In the first chapter the study analyses the structure and quality...

To Protect the Christian Idea against the Hanky-Panky of the Jewish Clique. St. Wenceslas as a Conflict of Ambitions, Ideas and Interests

Martin Kos

Iluminace 2020, 32(1):41-60 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1654  

This article explores the conceptual and pre-production stage circumstances and decision-making process in the case of negotiations for the production of Czech silent epic drama St. Wenceslas. Members of Millenium-film, a non-filmic association, seeking to provide financial resources for the production from the Czech government, had a several opportunities to make a deal with Czech producers (Miloš Havel) or production companies (Elektafilm and Astra National Production Ltd.) to co-finance it. However, the negotiations were completely unsuccessful due to different interests in the project. As the records of meetings indicate, Millenium-film's decisions...

Elektafilm presents Vlasta Burian. Financing of Feature Films with Multiple Language Versions in Czechoslovakia in the First Half of the 1930s

Michal Večeřa

Iluminace 2020, 32(1):61-75 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1655  

First half of 1930s was a period of radical changes connected with the introduction of sound technology. Due to these changes producers had to deal with various problems originating from growing production costs; Czech filmmakers had to deal with the lack of the financial sources and undeveloped market, local production was not usually profitable despite its popularity. When trying to overcome all complications entrepreneurs had to find their way to develop a sustainable production strategy - it usually included presales, specialised distribution practices and designing films with a chance for success in foreign distribution.In presented text I...

Ivan Tatíček - from Amateur Film to Professional Video Production

Martin Blažíček, Sylva Poláková

Iluminace 2020, 32(1):77-92 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1656  

This study, written within the framework of a project aiming to reconstruct and digitise the original films and prepare a public presentation of the works of Ivan Tatíček from the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, focuses on introducing and contextualising the amateur films and video art of this half-forgotten artist. Ivan Tatíček completed five films in the 1980s: Kruh D (D Circle, 1982), Vojáci (Soldiers, 1982), O ničem jiném (On Something Else, 1983), Metrofilm (1984), and Všude doma dobře nejlíp (East or West, Home's Best, 1986). Most of them were warmly received at amateur film festivals and elicited positive reactions from the press. During his employment...

"These People are so Rude that One Can't Hear Anything!" Memories of the Beginnings of Czech Film Distribution and Exhibition until 1914

Jaroslav Lopour

Iluminace 2020, 32(1):100-134 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1658  

Czech Film Between Directives and Directors (Petr Szczepanik, Továrna Barrandov: Svět filmařů a politická moc 1945-1970)

Jonathan Owen

Iluminace 2020, 32(1):139-143  

Behind Brian Massumi's Affective Event (Brian Massumi, Architectures of the Unforeseen: Essays in the Occurent Arts)

Benjamin Slavík

Iluminace 2020, 32(1):144-150  

Expanding Cinema. A Conversation with Péter Forgács

Kamil Lipiński

Iluminace 2020, 32(1):93-99  

Lamač Karel 1897-1952

Luboš Marek

Iluminace 2020, 32(1):135-138 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1659