Cinema Komunisto

Screening and discussion at Ateliers Varan, Paris

Mila — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:52:04 +0000

Les Dimanches de Varan / Carte blanche à Marie-José MONDZAIN

le 7 avril 2013 à 10h

Les Dimanches de Varan sont une proposition originale de cycles de réflexions autour du cinéma documentaire (et pas uniquement …) : cartes blanches données à des critiques, des penseurs et des cinéastes afin de nous aider à voir et à entendre ce qui se perçoit à travers le cinéma et à y réfléchir autour d’une sélection d’extraits de films.

Séances les dimanche matin de 10h à 14h aux Ateliers Varan, participation aux frais de 5 euros par séance, café et croissant compris.

FILMER LE POUVOIR – LE CONTRE POUVOIR :

Avec Marie-José MONDZAIN : philosophe, écrivain et directrice de recherches au CNRS, spécialiste du rapport à l’image « Il s’agit d’ouvrir une première réflexion sur la relation qu’entretient le détenteur du pouvoir politique avec le registre des images. On ne peut que constater l’étonnante confiance de ceux qui ont le pouvoir envers le pouvoir des images, comme s’ils croyaient assuré le service qu’elles peuvent rendre à la continuité et à la légitimité de leur domination. La visibilité des maîtres ne va pas sans les stratégies de la dissimulation. Avant d’examiner le lien possible des images avec les figures du contre pouvoir, je propose de travailler sur deux cas : le 7 avril, celui de Tito et de sa relation à l’industrie cinématographique à partir de Cinéma Komunistode Mila Turajlic puis le 14 avril, celui de Mitterrand et de son auto-mise en scène face à la caméra à partir de Le Prince et son image d’Hugues Le Paige. Deux films donc, remarquablement riches sur le chemin de cette enquête au long cours consacrée au cinéma entre pouvoir et contre pouvoir » M.J. Mondzain.

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Ateliers Varan – Centre de formation au cinéma documentaire 6 Impasse Mont-Louis 75011 Paris – France

Métro : Philippe Auguste (ligne 2)

Téléphone : +33 (0)1 43 56 64 04

http://ateliersvaran.net/soirees-evenements/les-dimanches-de-varan-carte-blanche-a-marie-jose-mondzain-avril-2013

EBRD film night – interview with Mila Turajlic

Mila — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:55:50 +0000

Screening at EBRD in London

Mila — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:47:59 +0000

We are happy to announce that “Cinema Komunisto” will be screening at the EBRD headquarters in London on February 27, with director Mila Turajlic in attendance.

A welcome reception will be held at 17:30 in the EBRD’s Auditorium Foyer, with the screening starting at 18:30.

Admission is free, but prior email registration via EBRDevents@ebrd.com is essential.

More information about the event, can be found on the site of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

PARLONS-EN : LE MONDE À L’ÉPREUVE DES IMAGES

Mila — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:08:09 +0000

Parlons-en : Le monde à l’épreuve des images par LCP

Une émission de Frédéric HAZIZA avec la collaboration de Patrice TRAPIER du Journal du Dimanche (JDD).

Un évènement politique remarqué, une évolution de la société, un modèle économique émergent… Parlons-en !

Tous les dimanches, cette émission prend le pouls de la société en explorant l’actualité du moment.

Les invités de la semaine :

- Georges-Marc Benamou, journaliste
- Hala Alabdalla, réalisatrice syrienne
- Mila Turajlic, réalisatrice serbe

Orchestré par Frédéric Haziza, ce rendez-vous dominical convie parlementaires, experts, artistes, intellectuels et personnalités de la société civile à analyser et commenter un sujet dans l’air du temps.

Diffusion : Dimanche à 8h30.
Rediffusion : Dimanche à 16h30 et minuit.

Une production LCP-Assemblée nationale.

Discussion on Cinema Komunisto on Russian channel TV Kultura

Mila — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:48:52 +0000

Cinema Komunisto was screened on Russian channel TV Kultura followed by a studio discussion on the film.

Смотрим Обсуждаем: Cinema Komunisto

DVD goes on sale in Serbia!

Mila — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:28:28 +0000

To celebrate the 29th of November, Republic Day, former Yugoslavia’s most important national holiday, the DVD of Cinema Komunisto goes on sale in Belgrade! The DVD can be found in the Gift Shop of the Museum of Yugoslav History, the SUPERMARKET concept store, and the amazing street vendors in Knez Mihajlova street.

Both the ex-Yugoslav edition (with Slovenian, Macedonian and Albanian subtitles) and the English edition (with English subtitles) will be available for purchase. The DVD can also be purchased online from our website.

LINK TO ONLINE STORE

A dual-layer DVD packed with over 40 minutes of special features and a deluxe 24-page booklet!

SPECIAL FEATURES

* Bonus scenes – 20’ of unreleased material

* Photo komunisto

* Exclusive interview with Professor Daniel J. Goulding

* Serbian premiere diary

* Tribeca FF videobiography

* Director’s commentary

* Trailer

+ BOOKLET

* 24 pages about the film * the golden age of Avala Film * rare archive materials

UK press reviews are in!

Mila — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:52:41 +0000

An exciting opening weekend in London, attracting great interest from the British Press, including a FOUR-STAR review from The Times and Dazed and Confused magazine made it the Documentary of the Week. Here’s a selection of press quotes – links to full reviews can be found the Press page.

The Times: ★★★★ “This exhaustively researched and elegantly edited documentary explores the cinematic legacy of the former Yugoslavia.”

Dazed and Confused: A bizarre account of Yugoslavia’s film industry with rare archive footage in which Hitchcock, Sofia Loren and Orson Welles flit past, appearing in ‘super productions’ commissioned by Yugoslavian dictator and film-obsessive Marshal Tito. Actors, producers, secret police and Tito’s personal projectionist describe eccentric, fact-meets-fiction stories – including using the country’s entire armed forces for celluloid battle scenes, and Tito’s hiring of Richard Burton to play himself in a biopic. A week of screenings kick off tonight at the ICA.

The Guardian: “Mila Turajlic’s brash and diverting – if slightly disorganised – documentary illustrates how closely Yugoslavian cinema was tied to the Tito regime.”

The Observer: “A sad but fascinating story” – Philip French

Time Out London: “a fascinating tale…”

From The Little White Lies website: “The breadth of Turajlic’s research is palpably vast, and she has secured fascinating interviews with directors and actors who were a major part of this flourishing industry. Not only are their testimonies revealing and passionate, but they locations in which they are filmed – grubby apartments that overflow with dog-eared memorabilia and rusting film cans, the country’s now derelict film archive – reinforce what a massive deal cinema was back then.”

Total Film: “Mila Turajlić’s doc resurrects an era where Hollywood stars appeared in propaganda pics and military service meant becoming an extra…”

An in-depth interview by Michael Brooke in the December issue of Sight&Sound. Michael Brooke calls the film entertaining, surprising and extraordinary.

Cinema Komunisto continues its UK cinema release, courtesy of distributor Shane OSullivan of E2 Films.

Paris – Round table on ex-Yugoslav cinema and screening

Mila — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:20:02 +0000

Un état du monde… et du cinema!

Paris, Forum des images, 1-9 December 2012

Cinema Komunisto will be screening at the Forum des Images in Paris on Sunday, December 9, at 17:30h, as part of a week-long selection of ex-Yugoslav films. Mila Turajlic and Iva Plemic Divjak will be present for a Q&A after the screening.

On December 8 at 18:00h there will be a round table discussion on “Cinemas in ex-Yugoslavia”: a shared destiny between Yugo-nostalgia and the EU?”

Animée par Jean-Arnault Derens, Le Courrier des Balkans. Avec Aida Begic (réalisatrice), Amaël Cattaruzza (maître de conférences en géographie, auteur de “L’atlas géopolitique des Balkans”, Éd. Autrement, 2012), Rajko Grlic (réalisateur), Dalibor Matanic (réalisateur), Mirsad Purivatra (directeur et fondateur du festival de Sarajevo), Mila Turajlic (réalisatrice).

“Ceci est l’histoire d’un pays qui n’existe plus sauf au cinéma”, annonce Cinema Komunisto. Nés à la fin du titisme, enfants lorsque les pays de l’ex-Yougoslavie basculaient dans la guerre, quelle vision de leur histoire dessinent les cinéastes des Balkans ? Quelle continuité culturelle peut-on observer entre ces pays déchirés dans leurs frontières ?

En partenariat avec Le Courrier des Balkans Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles

The screening and round table are part of a focus on post-Yugoslav cinema. Notes from the festival program: “Ceci est l’histoire d’un pays qui n’existe plus, sauf au cinéma”, annonce Cinema Komunisto, un film retraçant l’histoire de l’ex-Yougoslavie à travers celle de son cinéma. Nés à la fin du titisme, enfants lorsque les pays de l’ex-Yougoslavie oscillaient entre ouverture à l’ouest et débuts d’affrontements nationalistes, les cinéastes des Balkans dessinent une autre vision de leur histoire. Une histoire nourrie de références culturelles et sociales communes, à commencer par la langue, les souvenirs de la guerre (Enfants de Sarajevo), la nostalgie d’une unité perdue ; et plus récemment, la recherche d’emploi, l’attraction de l’argent facile (Slovenian Girl), l’entrée dans l’union européenne, effective pour la Croatie en 2013 (Kino Lika). Une histoire de résistance incarnée par la défense de cette culture commune contre les nationalisme.”

More information on www.forumdesimages.fr

Download pdf of screenings.

UK cinema release!

Mila — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:53:25 +0000

We are excited to announce the cinema release of Cinema Komunisto in the UK, with our distributor Shane O’Sullivan of E2 Films!

The UK release kicks off with a week of screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London on Friday, November 23rd, followed by a Q&A with the director

From the ICA program:

Many movie fans won’t know that the former Yugoslavia once had a film industry whose resources rivalled those of France and Italy, and which attracted likes of Hitchcock, Welles and Loren. That was during the reign of dictator Marshal Tito, a serious film buff who watched a film with dinner most nights and created a world-class studio complex, Avala Films, to turn his own celluloid fantasies into, well, celluloid fantasies. Cinema Komunisto is an astonishing account of Tito’s obsession: he literally used his entire armed forces to make his war movies look authentic, and made a biopic of himself with Richard Burton in the leading role. But the film is also the story of Tito’s country, cleverly told through clips from his movies. Don’t expect an objective history lesson – but you will be completely fascinated.

ICA screening times are below, and more information about booking can be found on their website.

ICA screening times

Date	Time	Venue
Friday 23/11/2012	6:15 pm	Cinema 1
Saturday 24/11/2012	6:25 pm	Cinema 2
Sunday 25/11/2012	6:25 pm	Cinema 2
Tuesday 27/11/2012	6:25 pm	Cinema 2
Wednesday 28/11/2012	6:25 pm	Cinema 2
Thursday 29/11/2012	6:25 pm	Cinema 2

On November 30th at 19:30, Cinema Komunisto will be screening at the Cinema Museum.

More information and tickets here.

For more information on the film, including the press kit and trailer, visit www.e2films.co.uk/komunisto

Cinema Komunisto included in the ground-breaking exhibition at the Museum of Yugoslav History

Mila — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:55:21 +0000

We are honored to announce that clips from Cinema Komunisto have been selected by curators of the Museum of Yugoslav History for inclusion in their seminal exhibition YUGOSLAVIA: FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END.

The exhibition opens on December 1st 2012, and “provides the basis for a future permanent exhibition at the Museum of Yugoslav History that will be put together after receiving feedback from experts, academia and the wider public.”

In a message released before the opening, the creative team behind the exhibition says:

“Our ambition in putting the exhibition together was not encyclopedic – to cover all the aspects of the social system nor to present all available data. The aim of the exhibition is to create a space which i na modern, attractive and objective way will introduce visitors to one of the most intersting and most controversial state-building experiments of the 20th century. The idea is not a chronological portrayal of the most important events, but an analysis of important phenomena and elements that marked the country and the society on the territory which for over 70 years came under the name Yugoslavia.

This exhibition is a great challenge to us and we see it as a presentation of our research which we now wish to share with visitors. The research is not over, this is one of many stories of Yugoslavia and for us a point on the road towards a future permanent exhibition on the history of Yugoslavia. What do you think of it? We want to hear your opinions!”

The exhibition runs from December 1st to March 3, 2013. Go see it!

More information on the Museum’s website.