Intersections of Film and Television in the Baltic Sea Region:
Past and Present
The 7th Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference
10–11 June 2022
Venue: SuperNova Cinema
Tallinn University Baltic Film, Media and Arts School
Programme | 10 June
9:00 | Registration
9:45 | Welcome
10:00–11:30 | Accessing film heritage: A panel discussion with Thomas Christensen, Dr. Adelheid Heftberger, Mikko Kuutti
Moderated by Eva Näripea
11:30–12:00 | Break
12:00 | Zane Balčus, Still/Moving: The Aesthetics of Hercs Franks’ Early Television Documentaries
12:20 | Daira Abolina-Iljesane, The Phenomenon of Television-commissioned Films in the Riga Film Studio (1966–1989): Audiovisual and Narrative Stylistic Techniques
12:40 | Elīna Reitere, The Role of Television for Careers of Latvian Film Professionals in the 1990s
Chair: Mikołaj Kunicki
13:30–14:30 | Lunch
14:30 | Anders Marklund, Television’s Presence in the Careers of Guldbagge-Awarded Film Directors
14:50 | Jan Erik Holst, Drama Productions for Screen and Cinema in Norway: The Development from Traditional Television Theatre Produced by the State Channel Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (Norsk rikskringkasting, NRK) to Modern Drama Series and Feature Film Production, 1960–2020
15:10 | Mikołaj Kunicki, Soldiers, Resisters, Collaborators and Misguided Patriots: History Culture, Memory Landscapes and the Representations of World War II in Contemporary Danish Cinema
Chair: Kimmo Laine
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Programme | 11 June
11:00 | Kimmo Laine, Heidi Keinonen and Jaakko Seppälä, Intersecting Histories of Finnish Film and Television from the 1950s to the 1970s
12:00 | Mia Öhman, Awaken from Death (Kuolleista herännyt, 1975, TV) and Out to Borrow Matches (Tulitikkuja lainaamassa, 1980): Maiju Lassila’s ‘Goryachie Finny’
Chair: Anders Marklund
12:30–13:30 | Lunch
13:30 | Audrius Dambrauskas, From Science Fiction to First Locally Built TV Set: Television in the Republic of Lithuania, 1918–1940
13:50 | Tomas Vaitelė, West in the Soviet ‘Kingdom of Mirrors’: Simulation of Popular Culture in Soviet Lithuanian Television
14:10 | Riho Västrik, Combining Methods of Fiction Film and Documentary Television: A New Style of Storytelling in Our Artur (Meie Artur, 1968) by Grigori Kromanov and Mati Põldre
Chair: Teet Teinemaa
15:00–15:30 | Break
15:30 | Teet Teinemaa, Improper Nostalgia? Longing for the Early 1990s in the TV Series Bank (Pank, 2018)
15:50 | Ilona Vitkauskaitė, The Construction of Social Reality in Contemporary Lithuanian Popular Films
16:10 | Helga Merits, The Big Fall Between Two Heavy Stools
16:40 | Dirk Hoyer, From The Silence to Dark: The Augmentation of Narrative Complexity in the Conversion from Cinema to Netflix
Chair: Audrius Dambrauskas