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ILUMINACE
Časopis pro teorii, historii a estetiku filmu

Vychází třikrát ročně. Recenzované studie Iluminace zveřejňuje v sekcích Články a Články k tématu.

Časopis Iluminace, vydávaný Národním filmovým archivem je jediný domácí recenzovaný časopis pro vědeckou reflexi kinematografie, již nahlíží z hledisek teoretických, historických i estetických. Klade důraz na původní výzkum a interdisciplinární přístupy a v posledních letech se ve vyšší míře orientuje na mezinárodní autorskou i čtenářskou obec. Monotematický blok textů v každém čísle doplňují stud

ie mimo hlavní téma, rozhovory, recenze odborné literatury, edice archivních materiálů, prezentace sbírek NFA a probíhajících výzkumných projektů. Nadpoloviční většinu obsahu časopisu tvoří statě vycházející z původního výzkumu, podíl publikovaných statí činí méně než 70 % příspěvků zaslaných redakci. Iluminace je součástí databází Scopus a ERIH PLUS, dostupná je též přes elektronické databáze EBSCO a ProQuest.

09/02/2026

The new themed issue is out now!
⏩️Filmic Matter and Geographic Specificity

Guest editors: Byron Davies and Jiří Anger
Read the issue here 👇https://iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2025/mn3.php?l=en

The materiality of film and audiovisual media has often been understood in universal terms, or through the language of canonized Western thought. This special issue demonstrates the diverse ways in which filmic matter can be articulated in relation to local and geographic contexts. Case studies in manufacturing, preservation, circulation, and artistic appropriation of both photochemical and digital film across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa highlight the extent to which cinema is shaped by the availability (or unavailability) of specific physical materials and resources.

The issue features both written papers and audiovisual essays. The lineup includes:

⏩️Byron Davies – Jiří Anger: Toward a Geographically Specific Understanding of Filmic and Media Matter: An Introduction to a Special Issue
⏩️Marek Jancovic: Cinema’s Atmospheric A Priori: How Weather and Environment Shaped Celluloid Film Manufacturing and Raw Material Supply at Fujifilm, Daicel, and Agfa
⏩️Jennifer Nightingale: Knitting on Location: The Norfolk Knitting Pattern Film Series (audiovisual essay)
⏩️Libertad Gills: Por un cine cachinero: Reappropriation as a Survival Strategy in Contemporary Experimental Cinema from Guayaquil (audiovisual essay)
⏩️Maxime Harvey: Language Matters in the Geography of AI: French-Language Uses of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Filmmaking
⏩️Aleksei Ziniuk – Margarita Galandina: Refiguring the Buryat Photographic Archive: Ethnographic Visuality, Vernacular Montage, and Shamanic Temporality
⏩️Laurence Kent: Hussein Shariffe’s Filmic Ruins: Archival Noise and The Dislocation of Amber (1975) (audiovisual essay)
⏩️Bori Máté: Ritualization and Táltos Procedures in Péter Lichter’s Nutrition Fugue (2018)
⏩️Ludo de Roo: Kidlat Tahimik: Metaphorical Journeys in Decolonial Cinema
⏩️Floris Paalman: Moving in Circles: Space and Place in Media Archaeology and the Art of Jop Horst

Article outside the themed section (in Czech language):
⏩️Tereza Frodlová – Jakub Egermajer: Medieval Partisan in Color: Restoration of the Film Jan Roháč of Dubá as a Source of Cultural History

📖The issue also contains book reviews.

ℹ️Printed version available soon: www.eshop.nfa.cz/iluminace

27/01/2026

📣 ILUMINACE announces a Call for Papers for its new themed issue:

Costume, Make-up, and Hairstyling in Small National Cinemas

Guest Editor: Sarka Gmiterkova (Masaryk University)
Deadline for abstracts: February 27, 2026
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026

Czech costume designer Ester Krumbachová defined film costumes as phantoms. Clothing, as seen on screen and worn by fictional characters, is a rather slippery visual expression, offering hints and clues instead of exhaustive description. Throughout the 1960s, Krumbachová’s own costume creations resembled haunting images, fitting for modernist cinema and Czech New Wave aesthetics. Through her personal estate, she was rediscovered years later, being one of the few costume designers in the region whose work was became an unmistakable part of local film heritage (see Svatoňová and Jeřábková, 2022).

But what about other movies, which are not carried by strong artistic visions but by genre conventions, star associations and collaborations with fashion industries? How does costume assist with negotiations of global genre labels vis-a-vis their local adjustments? How does screen style articulate domestic notions of heritage or modernity? And what about people, who designed these visions; sometimes staying invisible and other times crossing over from peripheral, culturally and nationally specific industries onto global recognition and opportunities? Although the area of costume design analysis emerged no later than in the early 1990s, these questions in the context of cinemas of small nations have been addressed only rarely.

Read the full Call for Papers here:
https://iluminace.cz/artkey/inf-990000-1400_Call-for-papers.php?l=EN

Contributions to the issue can cover following areas, but are not limited to them:

▪️Analysis of individual movies or cluster of films, focusing on costumes and/or make-upcontributions to genre aesthetic, narration, character construction, world building, andvisual design ▪️Individual careers of costume designers / make-up artists / hairdressers; contemporary as well as historical personalities
▪️Case studies of intersections between costume design and fashion
▪️The notion of historical accuracy and authenticity in film costume and screen make-up *Working conditions, communications, cooperations and hierarchies on sets; both on domestic films and/or tv projects as well as runway productions
▪️Education and training in both areas
▪️Investigation of star images from the costume and/or make-up perspectives
▪️Concepts of beauty and glamour across different regions, periods and political regimes
▪️Costume and make-up and / versus performance
▪️Credits, Prestige, values and awards: establishing costume designers, make-up artists and hairdressers as organic components of film crews and their position within *Reception, appropriation and dissemination of film fashion, costume styles and screen make-up

Submission Details:
▪️Abstracts (250 words + 3–5 references) and a short bio (150 words)
are due by February 27, 2026
▪️Authors will be notified by March 20, 2026
▪️Full submissions are due by June 15, 2026
▪️No payments are required

The detailed submission guidelines can be found on our journal’s website: https://iluminace.cz/?l=en

Submit via online form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsyqY36hLfko6Mwsul-bMpfOb-mDgf9y72F-jXzZkEGmOgXw/viewform?usp=preview

11/11/2025

Iluminace No. 2/2025 is out now! The theme is: A Conversation Beyond the Script. As part of this, we are publishing seven articles:
🟤 Jan Černík / Jan Trnka: Shifting Screenwriting — The Past, Present and Future of the Craft. An Introduction to a Special Issue “Conversation Beyond Script”
🟤 Claus Tieber: Fascinating Rhythm. The Screenwriting of Sound Symphonies for American and European Film of the 1930s
🟤 Martin Kos: Copyright, Credits, and Write-for-Hire Creativity. Authorship and Authority in Czech Silent Screenwriting
🟤 Rosamund Davies: Talking to You. Addressing the Viewer in Virtual Reality Narratives
🟤 Cecilie Levy: Subjective Access and Focalization in VR
🟤 Maria Chiara Oltolini: Storytelling Beyond Dialogue and Preschool Animation. Rethinking Audiovisual Narrative in the TV Series The Sound Collector
🟤 Imran Firdaus: The Living Script. Proposing an Adaptive Practice in Humaira Bilkis’s Things I Could Never Tell My Mother (2022)

And three more studies outside the theme:
🟤 Nicholas David Hudac: The Anti-Star. Věra Hrubá Ralston and Fault Lines of Classic Models of Stardom
🟤 Veronika Klusáková: “You All Have Such a Wholesome Look.”
Class and the Gothic Family in Ozark
🟤 Jiří Horníček: Filmový formát 9,5 mm coby obchodní artikl.
Historie firmy Cinéma v kontextu českého amatérského filmu v letech 1932–1952

The issue also includes an interview with Cristi Puiu and review of the book Decolonising the (Post-)Soviet Screen.

☝️The complete issue can be found here: https://www.iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2025/mn2.php?l=en
ℹ️Printed version available soon: www.eshop.nfa.cz/iluminace

23/06/2025

The first issue of 2025 is out now! And the colour of our journal for this year is mocha ☕ Current issue contains seven studies, five of them in English, other two in Czech 👇

🟤György Kalmár: From Post-Communist to Post-Human Care. A Comparative Study of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and Eden
🟤Martin Špirk: The Clash of Sino-Tibetan Propaganda On-screen. A Case Study of Tibetan Exile Movie Theatre
🟤Anna Wróblewska: Polish Contemporary Cinema. Between Right-wing Cultural Policy and Netflix Imperialism
🟤Agnieszka Kiejziewicz: Visual Expansions in Narrating Contemporary Conflicts
and History. The Possibilities of Virtual Reality Films
🟤László Strausz: Move on Down. Precarity in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema
🟤Jiří Sirůček: Aparátová teorie, postkinematografické dispozitivy a algoritmická interpelace subjektu
🟤Dita Stuchlíková: Historický vývoj terminologie českého animovaného filmu v období 1919–1990

Book reviews in Czech language are also included 📖

☝️The complete issue can be found here: https://www.iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2025/mn1.php?l=en
ℹ️Printed version available soon: www.eshop.nfa.cz/iluminace

31/01/2025

The new themed issue is out now!
▶️ Animation Studios: People, Spaces, Labor

Guest editors: Ewa Ciszewska (University of Lodz) and Pavel Skopal (Masaryk University)
Read the issue here 👇https://www.iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2024/mn3.php?l=en

The issue includes:
▶️ Michal Večeřa – Szymon Szul: How Serials Reshaped Animation Production. Comparative Analysis of Animated Film Serials Produced by the Studio in Gottwaldov and ‘Se-Ma-For’ Studio of Small Film Forms (1960s–1980s)
▶️ Tereza Bochinová – Agata Hofelmajer-Roś: The Agency and Effect of Technical Equipment on Animation Production in Studios Se-Ma-For and FS Kudlov in the 1970s and 1980s
▶️ Emil Sowiński: From Semi-Amateur to Professional Production Conditions. The Irzykowski Film Studio and Animation in the Late People’s Republic of Poland
▶️ Jane Cheadle: Transcontinental Studio Collaboration in the Production of the African-futurist Anthology Kizazi Moto
▶️ Colin Wheeler: Bring Your Toys to Work. Desk Displays at the Animation Studio

Book reviews:
📖 Liri Alienor Chapelan: Refusing to Fade. Soviet Domestic Photography Archives as Memory Strongholds
(Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko, In Visible Presence:
Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos)
📖 Jan Bergl: I provizorní zastávka může být cíl
(Jiří Anger, ed., Digitální Kříženecký: Nový život prvních českých filmů)

Printed version available soon 👉 www.eshop.nfa.cz/iluminace

15/01/2025

ILUMINACE announces a Call for Papers for its new themed issue:

🎥 Short Film in the Balkans and Eastern Europe

Guest Editors:
Fabio Bego (Independent Researcher)
Ana Grgic (Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania)
Irina Tcherneva (CNRS — Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France)

Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2025
Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2025

Archives are spaces of power expressions. They are places where power is stored and information is selected and converted. At their foundation, archives are essentially patriarchal, paternal, and colonial institutions designated to preserve and expand the political order which founded them, however archives are also “sites of memory” which preserve traces of cultural and social experiences, practices, and resistances. For this special issue, we invite scholars to consider how short films reinforce and challenge archival power. Our aim is to draw attention to the way in which short films reverberate and reflect the (dis)continuities of state-building projects, political activism, and regime changes in the Balkans and Eastern Europe throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. More than thirty years after the end of the Cold war, the region now demands a decolonial view of its past, archives and memory, one that is shaped by “a multivocal discourse”, encompassing multiplicity of creative expressions and intersected temporalities.

ℹ️ Please send an abstract (250 words + 3–5 bibliographic references) and a short bio (150 words) to 👉 [email protected] 👉 [email protected] 👉 [email protected] 👉 [email protected] 👉 [email protected] by February 15, 2025. The authors will be informed of the decision
by February 28, 2025. The deadline for submitting the full article is May 10, 2025. The special issue is slated for publication in January 2026. The detailed submission guidelines can be found on our journal’s website: https://iluminace.cz/artkey/inf-990000-1400_Call-for-papers.php?l=EN

07/01/2025

Our recent special issue, Configuring Computer Labor in Film and Audiovisual Media, guest-edited by Veronika Hanakova, has received multiple acknowledgments in Sight and Sound’s Best Video Essays of 2024 poll.

👉 https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-video-essays-2024

This is what researcher and filmmaker Kevin B. Lee wrote:
“Any of the four video essays featured in this issue would make my list on its own, but taken together it’s a truly formidable collection, exploring cinema and media’s complex and evolving relationship with computer technology. Kudos to Veronika Hanáková for conceiving and curating such a strong and timely issue for the Czech film journal Iluminace.”

A special shoutout to Occitane Lacurie, whose video essay »Ordinatrices: About the Negative Spaces of Early Computing« ranked in the top five of the year with six nominations!

See the full issue here 👇
https://www.iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2024/mn2.php

🖼 Still image from Ordinatrices: About the Negative Spaces of Early Computing (Occitane Lacurie, 2024), courtesy of the artist

14/11/2024

The new themed issue is out now!
📀𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚
Guest editor: Veronika Hanakova
Read the issue here 👇https://iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2024/mn2.php

What if we turned our perspective around and, instead of asking what impact the computer has had on moving images, explored what computer iconography looks like in and through audiovisual media? The special issue of ILUMINACE tackles this question, diving into the complex and often contradictory portrayals of computer labor in film and television series.

This issue features both written papers and audiovisual essays. The lineup includes:

📀 Veronika Hanáková: Configuring Computer Labor in Film and Audiovisual Media: An Introduction to a Special Issue
📀 Steve F. Anderson: Envisioning the Interface
📀 Daniel O’Brien: The Allure and Threat of the Cine-Computer: A Supercut of Onscreen Computers in Speculative Screen Fiction
📀 Occitane Lacurie: Ordinatrices: About the Negative Spaces of Early Computing
📀 Simone Dotto: Do Corporate Films Dream of Cybernetic Governance? Computers (as Metaphors of) Industrial Labor and Society in Olivetti-Sponsored Films
📀 Matěj Pavlík: Techniques and Technologies to Compensate for Powerlessness
📀 Tibor Vocásek: Who Is Awful? Black Mirror and the Dystopian Imaginary of AI Labor
📀 David Álvarez: Nostalgia Isn’t What it Used to Be: On Vaporwave’s Glitched, Aspirational Aesthetics

Book reviews:
📖 Ondřej Zach: Karlovarský festival jako platforma kulturní výměny i zbraň hybridní války (Jindřiška Bláhová, ed., Proplétání světů: Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary v období studené války)
📖 Veronika Hanáková: Seriously Unserious: Theoretical Implications of the Gimmick for Film and Media Studies (on Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form)

Printed version available soon 👉 www.eshop.nfa.cz/iluminace

05/11/2024

📣 ILUMINACE announces a Call for Papers for its new themed issue:

🎞 Filmic Matter and Geographic Specificity

Guest editor: Byron Davies (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
Deadline for abstracts: December 15, 2024
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2025

This issue seeks to engage with how local contexts shape our understanding of filmic materials within the realms of experimental filmmaking, archival practices, film stock production, and broader media ecologies. It aims to move beyond traditional Western-centric frameworks, emphasizing regional and Indigenous perspectives that bring to light the diversity of filmic materiality around the world.

Read the full Call for Papers here:https://www.iluminace.cz/incpdfs/inf-990000-1400_10_007.pdf
Key Themes Include:
🟨 The aesthetic and philosophical significance of locally specific materialist film practices: from experimental cinema and found footage to animation and practices involving textiles and painting
🟨 Materialist theories and their alignment with anti-colonial and anti-imperialist thought
🟨 Global circulations of film theory and their impact on our notions of filmic matter
🟨 Archival challenges and the geographic particularities of collecting, curating, and preserving film
🟨 The ecological impact of film practices and the potential for articulating degrowth visions through cinema
🟨 The influence of geopolitics on digital media, including the extraction and accessibility of resources like lithium and indium

This issue welcomes articles (6,000–7,500 words) and audiovisual essays (5–15 mins) accompanied by written statements (1,000–2,500 words).

Submission Details:
Abstracts (250 words + 3–5 references) and a short bio (150 words) are due by December 15, 2024.
Authors will be notified by January 15, 2025.
Full submissions are due by April 30, 2025.
No payments are required.
Submit to: 👉 [email protected] 👉 [email protected] 👉 [email protected]

🖼 Still image from Ñuhu: Seres Sagrados (Julio César Saavedra Castro and Biznaga Audiovisual, 2022), courtesy of the artist

14/10/2024

📣 ILUMINACE announces a call for papers for its new themed issue:

👉 Theme: A Conversation Beyond the Script

Guest editors: Jan Trnka (Národní filmový archiv), Jan Černík (Palacký University)
Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2024
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2025.

During the past decade, the field of writing for the screen and its academic reflection has undergone several changes. The biggest challenges for the screenwriting community (mainly in the USA but not only there) have been the financial remuneration of screenwriters, their job opportunities, and the rise of artificial intelligence. It resulted in another WGA strike, with which many regional screenwriting associations stood in solidarity. Screenwriting studies are responding to this with a gradual change of perspective. Alongside the continued interest in teaching screenwriting and narrative patterns, we are increasingly encountering case studies on regional approaches to writing, scripting for short formats and VR which can be understood as a tendency to broaden the field of interest and opportunities for screenwriters.

We are calling for contributions that address the complex and multifaceted nature of dialogues and conversations in the screenwriting and audiovisual industry. This theme can be grasped in two ways: either as a reflection of dialogues in scripts and audiovisual art or as an insight into the filmmakers' debates during the development and production phases or as ways of negotiating between screenwriters and production companies. Papers may reflect both traditional approaches to writing and new technologies such as AI and VR.

For the forthcoming issue, we invite authors to send us abstracts dealing with any of these possible (but not exclusive) topics:

* Dialogues and Discourse in Screenplays: Examining how character dialogues function within scripts to convey subtext, emotion, and narrative progression.
* Plurality of Voices and Polylogues: Analyzing scripts that feature multiple voices and complex conversational structures, reflecting the diversity of perspectives.
* Dissemination of Information: Investigating how information is shared through dialogue, affecting audience perception and engagement.
* Storytelling Through Conversation: Exploring the role of conversational dynamics in shaping narrative and character arcs.
* Collaborative Conversations in Filmmaking: Understanding the impact of dialogue between writers, directors, and other stakeholders on the creative process.
* Intercultural Dialogue in Film and Television: Studying how cross-cultural interactions are represented and negotiated through dialogue in screenplays.
* History and Theory of Screenwriting: Reflecting on the evolution of screenwriting practices and theoretical approaches.
* Teaching Screenwriting Techniques: Discussing pedagogical methods and strategies for teaching dialogue writing and screenplay construction.
* Narrative Strategies in Audiovisual Media: Examining innovative narrative techniques in film, television, and new media, focusing on the integration of dialogue.

For further inspiration, see the literature cited at: https://www.iluminace.cz/artkey/inf-990000-1400_Call-for-papers.php

We invite scholars and practitioners to submit papers that engage with these topics, offering fresh perspectives and rigorous analysis. Submissions should be original, unpublished works that contribute to the academic discourse on screenwriting and filmmaking.

Please send an abstract (250 words) and a short bio (150 words) to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] by November 15, 2024. The authors will be informed of the decision by December 15, 2024. The deadline for submitting the full article is February 15, 2025. No payments are required.

20/06/2024

První číslo nového ročníku je tu ✨ Jako vždy můžete číst volně na www.iluminace.cz, anebo kupovat sběratelské papírové vydání na eshop.nfa.cz. A jaké texty v nové Iluminaci najdete?
▶️ Lukáš Slavík a Klára Smejkal publikují závěry z výzkumu české veřejnoprávní streamovací platformy iVysílání.
▶️ Kryštof Kočtář analyzuje performanci Martina Ježka s názvem "Náš očistec".
▶️ Ondřej Zach rozebírá osudy filmu Dědictví aneb Kurvahošigutntág Věry Chytilové.
▶️ Tomáš Hubáček se zabývá fenoménem sbližování profesionálního a amatérského animovaného filmu v Československu v 70. let.
▶️ Ivan Klimeš rozkrývá snahy Československé obce sokolské vybudovat centrálně řízený řetězec biografů.
📚 Recenzujeme knihu Petra Szczepanika "Screen Industries in East-Central Europe", publikaci Veroniky Pehe "Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture" a sborník editorského dua Ksenya Gurshtein – Sonja Simonyi "Experimental Cinemas in State-Socialist Eastern Europe".

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