Iluminace, 2025 (vol. 37), issue 3
FILMIC MATTER AND GEOGRAPHIC SPECIFICITY

Toward a Geographically Specific Understanding of Filmic and Media Matter: An Introduction to a Special Issue

Byron Davies, Jiří Anger

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):5-20 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1831  

It can be difficult to articulate a substantive materialism in film and media studies, owing to the slipperiness of that term and its cognates. Changes in media and their technology can even bring out the materialist elements of supposedly idealist views in past film theory, thus raising the question of whether there is any meaningful contrast with “materialism.” We proffer the hypothesis that these difficulties lose their force as we move away from the global center and toward sites shaped by material scarcity and colonial extraction. Consequently, a materialism thought through to its full implications must be a geographically grounded...

Cinema’s Atmospheric A Priori: How Weather and Environment Shaped Celluloid Film Manufacturing and Raw Material Supply at Fujifilm, Daicel, and Agfa

Marek Jancovic

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):21-42 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1819  

Knitting on Location: The Norfolk Knitting Pattern Film Series

Jennifer Nightingale

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):43-48 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1821  

Por un cine cachinero: Reappropriation as a Survival Strategy in Contemporary Experimental Cinema from Guayaquil

Libertad Gills

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):49-56 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1824  

Language Matters in the Geography of AI: French-Language Uses of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Filmmaking

Maxime Harvey

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):57-76 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1822  

Refiguring the Buryat Photographic Archive: Ethnographic Visuality, Vernacular Montage, and Shamanic Temporality

Aleksei Ziniuk, Margarita Galandina

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):77-108 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1826  

Hussein Shariffe’s Filmic Ruins: Archival Noise and The Dislocation of Amber (1975)

Laurence Kent

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):109-118 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1820  

Ritualization and Táltos Procedures in Péter Lichter’s Nutrition Fugue (2018)

Bori Máté

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):119-146 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1825  

Kidlat Tahimik: Metaphorical Journeys in Decolonial Cinema

Ludo de Roo

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):147-170 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1827  

Moving in Circles: Space and Place in Media Archaeology and the Art of Jop Horst

Floris Paalman

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):171-198 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1823  

Medieval Partisan in Color: Restoration of the Film The Warriors of Faith as a Source of Cultural History

Tereza Frodlová, Jakub Egermajer

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):199-232 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1828  

The presented study is based on research carried out on the occasion of the digital restoration of the film The Warriors of Faith (Jan Roháč z Dubé; Vladimír Borský, 1947) undertaken between 2022 and 2024 with the participation of Národní filmový archiv, Prague. The study reconstructs the circumstances of the film’s creation, its complex distribution history and its place in the social and culturalpolitical context of post-war Czechoslovakia. At the same time, it addresses the issue of the ideological dimension of the subgenre of historicist historical film and the production and distribution practices of nationalized Czechoslovak cinematography...

Poor Boys and the Others

Jakub Egermajer

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):233-240 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1829  

Review of the book: Pavel Skopal a kol., Lidé – práce – animace: Světy animovaného filmu na Kudlově (Brno: Host, 2024).

Space and Time in Japanese Videogame Centers

Josef Tichý

Iluminace 2025, 37(3):241-247 | DOI: 10.58193/ilu.1830  

A book review: Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon, Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades (New York: Routledge, 2024).