28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Lecture: On the archetype of apocalypse in the Czechoslovak cinema in the 1980s

Lecture: On the archetype of apocalypse in the Czechoslovak cinema in the 1980s

director: Kamil Fila
original title: Přednáška: O archetypu apokalypsy v československých filmech 80. let
country: Czech Republic
year: 2019
running time: 100 min.

synopsis

Toward the end of the state-run socialism era, Eastern bloc citizens were being supplied with film and TV images of the decline of civilization and crumbling ecosystems. Today’s “environmental sorrow” thus already had its predecessor back then. Apart from issues like air, soil and water pollution (e.g. in Jan Svěrák’s student film Oil Gobblers), a threat of nuclear conflict raised by the Chernobyl disaster was very alive at the time. The lecture by Kamil Fila will focus on well-known and unfamiliar, eloquent and intensive, but also totally weird examples of fears representative of this period.
 

biography

Kamil Fila is film journalist and critic. He graduated in Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture Theory at Masaryk University in Brno. His experience as editor includes internships in Cinepur bimonthly, Aktuálně.cz online daily and Respekt weekly. 

more about film

director: Kamil Fila
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms