Central European Films at the Logan Center

Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces:Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe 1960-1990

Friday, Oct 23, 7pm            

Dating from the postwar period to the last decades of Communism in Eastern Europe, this screening on collectives and art communities features film shorts made by artists, who, despite restrictions, produced independent and experimental works that offer highly subjective glimpses into the lives of Eastern Bloc filmmakers. Including films by Mieczysław Waśkowski and Tadeusz Kantor from Poland, Nasko Kriznar and the OHO Group from Slovenia, and Vladimir Havrilla from the former Czechoslovakia, this program demonstrate how artists explored traditional and new artistic forms, often as part of larger, usually group efforts to carve out within their environments a space where countercultural and socially critical ideas could be freely exchanged..

(16mm and digital formats, 56 minutes)