The Romanian Filmmaker’s Union. Between Ambiguous Past and Uncertain Futur

• Authors: Alina Popescu

Title variants

PL

The Romanian Filmmaker’s Union. Between Ambiguous Past and Uncertain Future

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Romanian Filmmaker’s Union. Between Ambiguous Past and Uncertain Futur The Romanian Filmmakers’ Union is one of today’s largest cinematographic professional organisations inherited from the Communist past. This study looks at this specific form of institutionalising the activity of Romanian filmmakers from the perspective of its intermediary role between Party directives and divergent personal interests. The collapse of the regime made visible explosive tensions generated by this ambivalent institutional identity. It is therefore interesting to examine the consequences this organisation had on filmmakers’ status before and in the aftermath of the regime change. By using ethnographic methods, the article contributes to an understanding of the role the Union played in reconfiguring the professional community after 1989, especially after the coming of age of a generation of filmmakers who created new professional worlds that challenged the idea of ‘creative collectivity’.

PL

The Romanian Filmmakers’ Union is one of today’s largest cinematographic professional organisations inherited from the Communist past. This study looks at this specific form of institutionalising the activity of Romanian filmmakers from the perspective of its intermediary role between Party directives and divergent personal interests. The collapse of the regime made visible explosive tensions generated by this ambivalent institutional identity. It is therefore interesting to examine the consequences this organisation had on filmmakers’ status before and in the aftermath of the regime change. By using ethnographic methods, the article contributes to an understanding of the role the Union played in reconfiguring the professional community after 1989, especially after the coming of age of a generation of filmmakers who created new professional worlds that challenged the idea of ‘creative collectivity’.

Keywords

EN

Filmmaker's Union; Romania; communism; 1989; Romanian New Wave; ethnography; professional identity; Filmmaker's Union; Romania; communism; 1989; Romanian New Wave; ethnography; professional identity

PL

Filmmaker's Union Romania communism 1989 Romanian New Wave ethnography professional identity Stowarzyszenie filmowców Rumunia komunizm rumuńska nowa fala etnografia tożsamość zawodowa

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 93-98

Dates

published

2012-06-13

Contributors

author

Alina Popescu

• Marc Bloch Center w Berlinie

References

• H.S. Becker, Art Worlds, Berkley 2008.
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• P. Negura, Ni héros ni traîtres. Les écrivains mol¬daves face au pouvoir soviétique sous Staline, Paris 2009.
• J. and C. Garrard, Inside the Soviet Writers’ Union, London 1990.
• C. Caliman, Istoria filmului romanesc (1897–2010), Bucuresti 2011, pp. 287–383.
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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/i.2012.20.08