VI Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference
Genres and Their Transformations: The Global and Local Contexts, Production, and Reception*
(* Project is funded in the framework of State Research Programme,
Project title: Cultural capital as a resource for sustainable development of Latvia (CARD))
Programme
14 October, Wednesday
10:00 – 10:45 Registration
10:45 – 11:00 Opening of the Conference
SESSION I / chair Daniela Zacmane (11:00 – 13:15)
11:00 – 11:25
Eva Näripea (National Archives of Estonia, EE)
Porous Borders and Secret Agents: The Genre of Spy Film in Soviet Estonian Cinema
11:25 – 11:50
Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė, Juozapas Paškauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, LT)
Early Cinema in Lithuania: Genre and Program
Break
12:00 – 12:25
Dārta Ceriņa (Latvian Academy of Culture, LV)
Objects of Desire and the Soviet Detective: Where Sergei Eisenstein and Aloizs Brenčs Would Meet?
SESSION II / chair Zane Balčus (14:00 – 16:00)
14:00 – 14:25
Mantė Valiūnaitė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, LT)
Changing Documentary Cinema Practices in Lithuanian Cinema: Acid Forest and Animus Animalis (A Story About People, Animals and Things)
14:25 – 14:50
Zane Balčus (Latvian Academy of Culture, LV)
Creative expression vs. TV slot demand: Baltic Sea Docs 2020
Break
15:00 – 16:00
KEYNOTE: Yuri Tsivian (University of Chicago, USA)
Cinema, "Russian" Cinema, "Baltic" Cinema: What Makes Us Think of Films as Being Regional or National?
15 October, Thursday
SESSION III / chair Dārta Ceriņa (10:15 – 13:15)
10:15 – 11:15
KEYNOTE: Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Polish Biographical Films in the Last Decade
11:20 – 11:45
Elīna Reitere (Kino Raksti, LV):
Fictional Ties Between Filmic Universes: Latvian Historical Films 2018-2019
Break
12:00 – 12:25
Inese Boka-Grūbe (Latvian Academy of Culture, LV):
Distribution of Historical Films as a Process of Creating New Cultural Artefacts
12:25 – 12:50
Jānis Matvejs (University of Latvia, LV)
Housing Memories in Riga: WWI and Its Aftermath - Representation of the Apartment in Soviet Cinema and Now
12:50 – 13:15
Zane Balčus (Latvian Academy of Culture, LV)
Participatory Mode in Recent Latvian Documentary Cinema
SESSION IV / chair Ieva Ozoliņa (14:00 – 16:30)
14:00 – 15:00
KEYONOTE: Jörg Schweinitz (University of Zurich, CH)
Stereotype, Allusion, Hybridity and the Concept of Genre
Break
15:10 – 15:35
Gunhild Agger (Aalborg University, DK):
Transformations of Nordic Noir in TV Series
15:35 – 16:00
Jana Taperte, Sanda Rapa (University of Latvia, LV):
Silence and Speech in Narrative Structure of Slow Cinema (Laila Pakalniņa's The Shoe and Dāvis Sīmanis' Exiled)
16:00 – 16:25
Dita Rietuma (National Film Centre of Latvia, Latvian Academy of Culture, LV):
The Lost Tradition of Making Quality TV Series: Latvian Case
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VI Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference
Genres and Their Transformations: The Global and Local Contexts, Production, and Reception*
(* Project is funded in the framework of State Research Programme,
Project title: Cultural capital as a resource for sustainable development of Latvia (CARD))
Programme
14 October, Wednesday
10:00 – 10:45 Registration
10:45 – 11:00 Opening of the Conference
SESSION I / chair Daniela Zacmane (11:00 – 13:15)
11:00 – 11:25
Eva Näripea (National Archives of Estonia, EE)
Porous Borders and Secret Agents: The Genre of Spy Film in Soviet Estonian Cinema
11:25 – 11:50
Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė, Juozapas Paškauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, LT)
Early Cinema in Lithuania: Genre and Program
Break
12:00 – 12:25
Dārta Ceriņa (Latvian Academy of Culture, LV)
Objects of Desire and the Soviet Detective: Where Sergei Eisenstein and Aloizs Brenčs Would Meet?
SESSION II / chair Zane Balčus (14:00 – 16:00)
14:00 – 14:25
Mantė Valiūnaitė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, LT)
Changing Documentary Cinema Practices in Lithuanian Cinema: Acid Forest and Animus Animalis (A Story About People, Animals and Things)
14:25 – 14:50
Zane Balčus (Latvian Academy of Culture, LV)
Presentation "Creative expression vs. TV slot demand: Baltic Sea Docs 2020"
Break
15:00 – 16:00
KEYNOTE: Yuri Tsivian (University of Chicago, USA)
Cinema, "Russian" Cinema, "Baltic" Cinema: What Makes Us Think of Films as Being Regional or National?
15 October, Thursday
SESSION III / chair Dārta Ceriņa (10:15 – 13:15)
10:15 – 11:15
KEYNOTE: Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Polish Biographical Films in the Last Decade
11:20 – 11:45
Elīna Reitere (Kino Raksti, LV):
Fictional Ties Between Filmic Universes: Latvian Historical Films 2018-2019
Break
12:00 – 12:25
Inese Boka-Grūbe (Latvian Academy of Culture, LV):
Distribution of Historical Films as a Process of Creating New Cultural Artefacts
12:25 – 12:50
Jānis Matvejs (University of Latvia, LV)
Housing Memories in Riga: WWI and Its Aftermath - Representation of the Apartment in Soviet Cinema and Now
12:50 – 13:15
Zane Balčus (Latvian Academy of Culture, LV)
Participatory Mode in Recent Latvian Documentary Cinema
SESSION IV / chair Ieva Ozoliņa (14:00 – 16:30)
14:00 – 15:00
KEYONOTE: Jörg Schweinitz (University of Zurich, CH)
Stereotype, Allusion, Hybridity and the Concept of Genre
Break
15:10 – 15:35
Gunhild Agger (Aalborg University, DK):
Transformations of Nordic Noir in TV Series
15:35 – 16:00
Jana Taperte, Sanda Rapa (University of Latvia, LV):
Silence and Speech in Narrative Structure of Slow Cinema (Laila Pakalniņa's The Shoe and Dāvis Sīmanis' Exiled)
16:00 – 16:25
Dita Rietuma (National Film Centre of Latvia, Latvian Academy of Culture, LV):
The Lost Tradition of Making Quality TV Series: Latvian Case