Retrospectives
Reflections on stand-out films of the past.

Oldřich Lipský’s Happy End (Šťastný konec, 1967)

Vol. 130 (December 2022) by Colette de Castro
In this 1967 comedy, time runs backwards.

Tracing Queer Narratives in Romanian Time-Based Media Art

Vol. 128 (October 2022) by Valentina Iancu
Valentina Iancu retraces the emergence of queer time-based media art in Romania.

Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică’s Videograms of a Revolution (1992), Radu Muntean’s The Paper Will Be Blue (2006) & Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)

Vol. 127 (September 2022) by Fabrizio Cilento
This study explores allegorical landscapes in three classics of the Romanian New Wave.

George Săbău’s Fragmentarium (1985-1990)

Vol. 122 (February 2022) by Zoe Aiano
Zoe Aiano revisits this experimental short from 1980s Romania.

Binka Zhelyazkova Retrospective at Thessaloniki 2021

Vol. 120 (December 2021) by Savina Petkova
Savina Petkova revisits a thematic triptych by Bulgarian filmmaker Binka Zhelyazkova.

Franciszka and Stefan Themerson’s Europa (1931)

Vol. 118 (October 2021) by Isabel Jacobs
Lost for eighty years, this rediscovered avant-garde short recently premiered at the BFI film festival.

Soviet Bloc(k) Housing and the Self-Deprecating ‘Social Condenser’ in Eldar Ryazanov’s Irony of Fate

Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Lara Olszowska
Lara Olszowska reflects on the demise of an urban symbol.

Western Cities in the Soviet Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s

Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Pavel Stepanov
The story and function of the (urban) West in Soviet cinema.

Paper Architecture in Late Soviet Cinema

Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Raymond DeLuca
An analysis of late Soviet cinema's escapist attitude towards Brezhnev's built environment.

Brutalist Architecture in (Soviet) Cinema

Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Esen Gökçe Özdamar
How brutalist architecture eluded focal attention in (Soviet) cinema.
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