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Underground Film in Eastern Europe as a Cultural Practice during the 1960s-1980s

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This paper is focused on a comparative study of amateur or semi-amateur, unofficial filmmaking in a variety of underground and subcultural scenes in Eastern Europe. Often inspired by the introduction of Super8 technology for private home filming during the 1960s, artists, poets and performers started to explore the film medium in new ways. In the extreme heterogeneity of their technological tools, ambitions, aesthetic means, and genres, authors such as Naško Križnar, Tibor Hajas, Jan Ságl, Čaroděj (Lubomír Drožď) and Pigi (Irena Gosmanová), Ewa Partum, Katalin Ladik, Gabrielle Stötzer, and Evgeniy Jufit developed largely independently of each other what we might see as the filmic dimension of "samizdat culture."

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