In collaboration with the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia (CaSFAA) and on the occasion of its recent retrospective, the East European Film Bulletin brings you this issue dedicated to Czech film-maker Věra Chytilová. CaSFAA's retrospective was presented as a season entitled "Original Sins: Resistance and Feminism in the Avant-Garde Cinema of Věra Chytilová"....
EEFB's Věra Chytilová issue features our first photo-essay. Made by Indian filmmaker Jessica Sadana, it is a meditation on themes from Chytilová's seminal Daisies.
Maria Kuvshinova reflects on the bar set by Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov for measuring dignity. Sentsov recently went on a hunger strike demanding the release of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, where he himself is serving a 20-year sentence.
In his essay on the Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky, Gawan Fagard draws parallels between the ontology of the medium and the work of the Russian director.
