PAPER HEADS

• Authors: Paluch M.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The last film by the Slovak director Dusan Hanák named 'Paper Heads' (1995) represents a singular and particularly courageous penetration into the historical period marked by the communist totality in former Czechoslovakia. A multinational co-production project depicts the problem of freedom and restriction or compulsion, relation between a national a totalitarian regime. The film was produced for several years and Hanák concentrated on the emotional author's testimony constructed on the basis of an edited document. The final form of the documentary film is composed of declassified archive materials and produced parts, which are overlapping into the post-socialist presence. Hanák is working with the archive material using the principle of its transformation into author's testimony. He is focusing on an audiovisual counterpoint, on a contradicting effect of picture and sound. He is using the principles of a dialectic assembly, when two consequent pictures create a new independent picture. It originates mainly from the contrast between propagandistic archive material and authentic testimony of communist regime victims.

Keywords

EN

ARCHIVE MATERIALS; COMMUNIST TOTALITY; HANAK DUSAN

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 337-343
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Paluch M.

• M. Paluch, Kabinet divadla a filmu SAV, Dubravska cesta 9, 842 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA00771888