31 articles in this issue
Lorant Stohr
Owing to the disappearance of grand narratives in postmodernism, contemporary documentary has become concerned with personal and collective historical traumas. This paper focuses on the documentary filmmaker’s challenge concerning the treatment of traumat... see more
Terez Vincze
Archival and found footage have been playing an important role in Hungarian cinema since the 1960s. Th is type of material has been present not only in documentaries but also in Hungarian feature and experimental films. After a very short summary of ... see more
Maria Ferencuhova
This paper presents the films of three Slovak contemporary documentary filmmakers of the younger generation from a rhetorical and poetic perspective. Through their authorial films, Peter Kerekes, Marko Skop and Juraj Lehotsky call into question the widesp... see more
Lucie Cesálková
The development of Czech post-socialist documentary cinema was significantly influenced by the process of privatization of Short Film (the former resource base for documentary filmmaking). In the early 1990s, the documentary, as a rather unprofitable area... see more
Pavel Bednarík
Pavel Bednarík’s paper emphasizes the new era of Czech documentary, focusing on several issues and topics from contemporary Czech docs. Introducing the new era of Czech documentaries since the 1990s, Bednarik’s text depicts the development of its social a... see more
Anna Granatowska
The peculiarity of the films by Ulrich Seidl lies in the fact that the Austrian director combines freely the feature and documentary film techniques. This makes classifying his works not only impossible, but also pointless. Nevertheless, Seidl was perceiv... see more
Volha Dashuk
The subject of “Europeanness” has been analysed in Belarus thoroughly for the last twenty years, but mainly in journalistic publications and books. It is hard to trace the implication of this topic in cinema. Nevertheless, a documentary examined from a ce... see more
Anna Mikonis-Railiene
This brief study presents the main streams in Lithuanian documentary film in our century. It discusses the most interesting work of three generations of Lithuanian directors, and the nature of their politics and narrative structure. Although film expressi... see more
Marek Hendrykowski
The semiotic mechanism of representing time present in documentary film has remained the same since the 19th century up to this very day. This is governed without exception in the cinematographic “message” by the choice and combination of visual and audio... see more
Andrzej Szpulak
The article is devoted to two films by the independent operator, director and producer Arkadiusz Golebiewski: The Story of the Kowalski Family (Historia Kowalskich), which raises the subject of the Holocaust, and Quarter L (Kwatera L), which deals with St... see more
Justyna Czaja
The documentary film Archiwum istnien tells the story of research by Nazi anthropologists searching among the population of occupied Poland for representatives of the Aryan race. In her film, the director makes use of archival materials from World War Two... see more
Justyna Sulejewska
The article interprets Paper Box by Zbigniew Czapla as an example of iconographic film and suggests that the genre be renamed photo-film. An analysis of particular means of film expression and photographic metaphors leads to seeing photo-film as a synthes... see more
Michal Piepiórka
The film is one of few examples of political documentaries produced in Poland after 1989. It is not limited to merely outlining the political argument over General Jaruzelski’s decision to impose martial law. Although it concerns events in Polish history,... see more
Katarzyna Citko
Katarzyna Citkos article is an analysis of Dagmara Drzazga’s film Bez jednego drzewa las lasem zostanie (Without One Tree, a Forest Will Stay a Forest, 2012), an example of a religious and historical documentary. The article describes the film’s depiction... see more
Bogumila Fiolek-Lubczynska
The article centres on the documentary works of Andrzej Fidyk. The director is fascinated by cultural anthropology. Showing diff erent aspects of social life in a theatrical manner is an omnipresent motif in his movies. A fi lm in general, by it... see more
Urszula Tes
In his documentary Declaration of Immortality, Marcin Koszalka intentionally refers to the style of Wojciech Wiszniewski. Visual creativity is strongly exposed here, both in the style of fi lming and the presentation of the hero. Th e main character in th... see more
Katarzyna Maka-Malatytnska
This paper attempts to define the complex attitude to the tradition in Poland of fact-driven cinema shared by members of the young generation of Polish documentary filmmakers. The examples of films by Marcin Koszalka and Wojciech Staron, and Tomasz Wolski... see more
Anna Sliwinska
How is ballet presented in documentaries? Is Central European cinema different from cinema in the West in this respect? 52 Percent, Rafal Skalski’s documentary about Alla, a girl dreaming of becoming a ballerina, provides an intriguing answ... see more
Parabola is the essence of the short film Two Men and a Wardrobe (and likewise Mammals and The Fat and the Lean). Parabola is dominant of the genre, not merely an occasional and distinguishing attribute. In its interior, we f... see more
Marek Szponik
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Joanna Sikorska
Piotr Wojtowicz
Matej Bobrik
Aleh Dashkevich,Volha Dashuk,Beata Dzianowicz,Jolanta Kilian,Iryna Volakh,Jan Zamojski
15 Minutes: Belarus!
Bartlomiej Talaga,Wojciech Zwolinski
Jadwiga Hucková
“Films from East” signalling the political breakdown in the middle of the 1980s (the Gorbachev era) were welcom ed in the offi cial circulation system. Th e fi lms were screened not only in festival cinemas, but on TV as well, and were discussed in newspa... see more
Denis Viren
At first glance, the documentary films that the outstanding Polish filmmaker Grzegorz Królikiewicz was making at the turn of the 1970s, may seem less experimental than his feature films (one only needs to recall such innovative films as Through and Throug... see more
Mikolaj Jazdon
Mikolaj Jazdon in his article presents an analysis and interpretation of a documentary that became a “trademark” of the young generation’s cinema from the decade of the Cinema of Moral Anxiety in Poland. Zygadlo filmed the social behaviour ... see more
Piotr Plawuszewski
The article That’s How I’ve Remembered Mietek aims to throw light on the origins and the final artistic form of Wladyslaw Slesickis documentary The Rafts Sail (1962). The movie depicts the story of a young Mazurian boy n... see more
Tomasz Kowalski
The paper aims at analyzing the relationship between Eric Rohmer’s A Tale of Winter (Conte d’hiver, 1992) and Shakespeare’s late comedy. Although both works are entitled similarly, at first glance they have hardly anything in common, aside from one scene ... see more