V Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference.
Cooperation and Co-creativity in/between Cinemas of the Baltic Sea Region
Program
19th of September, MO museum, Event space (Pylimo str. 17)
10:00 – 11:00 Registration of the speakers, coffee
11:00 – 12:15 Conference welcome followed by:
Keynote speaker Anna Estera Mrozewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University):
Reimagining Norden’s Eastern Frontier in Nordic Cinemas and TV Series
12:15 – 13:45 CO-OPERATING NEIGHBOURS
Eva Näripea (National Archives of Estonia):
Cinema and the Geography of International Co-operation: Transnational Spaces in Marek Piestrak’s The Test of Pilot Pirx (Test pilota Pirxa, 1978)
Mia Öhman (University of Helsinki):
From Lenin’s Adventures in Finland to Trust (1976). How a Soviet-Finnish Film Project Became a Tool in Cultural Cold War
Dita Rietuma (Latvian National Film Centre):
Baltic Coproduction – Possibilities and Challenges
13:45 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 15:45 INFRASTRUCTURE: Films on the Road
Aline Meyenberg (Johannes Gutenberg University):
Between Cooperation and Confrontation: Soviet Film Export to Sweden, Finland and Poland in Comparison (1953-1964)
Irina Tcherneva (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences):
Foreign Resources for a Multifaceted Modernisation of the Cinema Infrastructure and Spectatorship in the Soviet Union.
Connections and Reappropriations (1956–1970)
15:45 – 16:45 WAYS TO REMEMBER
Violeta Davoliūtė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute):
Baltic Filmmakers and the Memory of World War Two during the Late Soviet Period
Natalija Arlauskaitė (Vilnius University):
Animating WWII: Tales of the Third Generation
19:00 Opening of Vilnius International Documentary Film Festival, c/f “Skalvija” (A. Goštauto str. 2) (with invitations only)
20th of September, MO museum, Event space (Pylimo str. 17)
10:00 – 10:45 Keynote speaker Raisa Sidenova (Newcastle University):
The Notions of the Poetic in Soviet Documentary Film
10:45 – 12:15 REVISITING SOCIAL AND GEOGRAPHIC MAPS
Elīna Reitere (Kino Raksti)
“Is It Easy To Be Young” at International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week for Cinema and Television in 1987
Egor Shmonin (Concordia University)
Late-Soviet Baltic Post-Poetic Documentaries: Mapping the Collapse, Reviving Spatial Memory
Narius Kairys (Vilnius Academy of Arts):
From Ethnography to Fiction: the Case Studies of Tofalaria (1986) and Few of Us (1996)
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:15 BALTIC DOCUMENTARIES: Common Perspectives
Zane Balčus (Latvian Academy of Culture):
Portrait of a Rapture: Juris Podnieks’ Hello, Do You Hear Us?
Audrius Stonys (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre):
Vectors of Baltic Documentary
14:15 – 15:45 CINEMA AND COMMUNITY: Reception and Activism
Kristina Tanis (National Research University Higher School of Economics):
Soviet Spectators and "Trophy Films" after WWII: Western Cinematic Products through the Soviet Optics
Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute):
Heritage, Memory and Community: Case Study of Panevėžys Cinema “Garsas” (1968)
Ilona Jurkonytė (Concordia University):
Production of Cinematic Public Space and Its Potentials Today
15:45 – 16:15
A Presentation of the Work-in-progress Book by Inga Pērkone (Latvian Academy of Culture):
Stage of the Screen: Acting in Latvian Cinema
18:30 Vilnius Documentary Film Festival: opening of Herz Frank’s retrospective, c/f “Skalvija” (A. Goštauto str. 2) introduced by Raisa Sidenova
20:30 Dinner, drinks, farewell
The event is open to the public and free of charge.