ARCHÍV PRE BUDÚCNOSŤ. SÚČASNÝ SLOVENSKÝ NONFICTION FILM AKO PRAX PRODUKCIE POZNANIA

• Authors: Mišíková Katarína

Title variants

EN

Archive for the future. Contemporary Slovak nonfiction film as a knowledge-generating practice

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Regardless of the increasingly frequent hybridization processes of fiction and nonfiction, and of the analysis of medial propaganda, the function of nonfiction or documentary films as epistemic media is still dominant. What is mostly emphasized, however, is the learning function of nonfiction for the viewers. The fact that documentary films are always mainly subjective testimonies about this reality however hard they try to act from the position of an epistemic authority, is mostly forgotten. Yet, the responsibility for the statement and for the dedication to the subject of the filmed research is where the subjectivity of the testimony of the documentary maker lies. This responsibility is also projected into the forms in which the documentary filmmakers create an archive of the present for the future. This study deals with the reflection of the post-November history of Slovakia as the latest layer of communication memory, closely tied to the formation of the modern identity of the country. Its goal is to examine what image of the present is created by nonfiction films for the future. In other words, what rhetoric and narrative tropes, or what conspiration structures, are used by the documentary makers to construct knowledge about the socio-political reality.

Keywords

EN

SLOVAK DOCUMENTARY FILM; HISTORY; COLLECTIVE MEMORY; SOCIO-POLITICAL REALITY; ARCHIVE

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 331 – 347

Contributors

author

Mišíková Katarína

• Filmová a televízna fakulta, Vysoká škola múzických umení, Svoradova 3, 813 01 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/sd-2022-0023