Febiofest 2018 | Launch of the book Censorship and Documentary Cinema Post-1989 + Carte blanche: Martin Palúch

Length:120 minutes

Febiofest 2018 | Launch of the book Censorship and Documentary Cinema Post-1989 + Carte blanche: Martin Palúch

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Martin Palúch’s monography titled Censorship and Documentary Cinema Post-1989 deals with the forms and manifestations of censorship which appeared in post-1989 Slovakia and which were related to documentary cinema. Investigative documentaries surely became the most vulnerable genre – not just in Slovakia, but also in the United States. In the beginning, the author offers a short historical overview of the mechanisms behind the state censorship implemented during the period of the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918 – 1938), the WWII Slovak Republic (1939 – 1945) and the former Czechoslovakia (1948 – 1989). Its residue gradually appeared in the democratic Slovak Republic as well (1993 onward), especially in the form of political and religious pressure on original production and its authors, mostly imposed by representatives of governing parties, their nominees, interest groups and socialist actors performing in films.

The expression carte blanche borrowed from French could be translated as “freedom to choose” or “a wild card”. On the occasion of the publication of his new monography, Martin Palúch was given the opportunity to present a single film of his choice. The subject matter of Palúch’s book is perfectly illustrated by a controversial Slovak film dealing with the social, political and ethical background of the most notorious Slovak scandal of the 1980s. Let Martin Palúch surprise you with his pick and don’t miss the unique opportunity to see a film which is rarely screened publicly.

Martin Palúch is a film scientist and a teacher. Since 2002 he has worked as a senior scientist in the Institute of Theatre and Film Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. At the same time, he gives lectures at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, and the Faculty of Film and Television at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He authored literary publications such as Perception in the Mirror of Photography and Film (2010) and Authorial Documentary Cinema in Post-1989 Slovakia (2015), and he co-authored the monography Ivan Palúch, the Actor (2008).

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Martin Palúch’s monography titled Censorship and Documentary Cinema Post-1989 deals with the forms and manifestations of censorship which appeared in post-1989 Slovakia and which were related to documentary cinema. Investigative documentaries surely became the most vulnerable genre – not just in Slovakia, but also in the United States. In the beginning, the author offers a short historical overview of the mechanisms behind the state censorship implemented during the period of the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918 – 1938), the WWII Slovak Republic (1939 – 1945) and the former Czechoslovakia (1948 – 1989). Its residue gradually appeared in the democratic Slovak Republic as well (1993 onward), especially in the form of political and religious pressure on original production and its authors, mostly imposed by representatives of governing parties, their nominees, interest groups and socialist actors performing in films.

The expression carte blanche borrowed from French could be translated as “freedom to choose” or “a wild card”. On the occasion of the publication of his new monography, Martin Palúch was given the opportunity to present a single film of his choice. The subject matter of Palúch’s book is perfectly illustrated by a controversial Slovak film dealing with the social, political and ethical background of the most notorious Slovak scandal of the 1980s. Let Martin Palúch surprise you with his pick and don’t miss the unique opportunity to see a film which is rarely screened publicly.

Martin Palúch is a film scientist and a teacher. Since 2002 he has worked as a senior scientist in the Institute of Theatre and Film Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. At the same time, he gives lectures at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, and the Faculty of Film and Television at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He authored literary publications such as Perception in the Mirror of Photography and Film (2010) and Authorial Documentary Cinema in Post-1989 Slovakia (2015), and he co-authored the monography Ivan Palúch, the Actor (2008).

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