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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.

04/08/2026

NEW THEMED ISSUE IS OUT NOW!
〰️ Anarchiving and Archival Asymmetry. Short Film in the Balkans and Eastern Europe

〰️ Guest editors: Ana Grgic, Irina Tcherneva, and Fabio Bego
Read the issue here: https://iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2026/mn1.php

Iluminace 1/2026, “Anarchiving and Archival Asymmetry: Short Film in the Balkans and Eastern Europe,” examines how fragmented archives, political change, and institutional neglect have formed the visibility and preservation of short film heritage across the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Bringing together feminist, decolonial, and critical archival perspectives, the issue rethinks archives as contested sites of power and demonstrates how recovering overlooked audiovisual histories can expand film historiography and cultural memory beyond dominant national and patriarchal narratives.

〰️ Editorial
Ana Grgić, Irina Tcherneva, Fabio Bego: Anarchiving and Archival Asymmetry.
Short Film in the Balkans and Eastern Europe

〰️ Themed Articles
Antonios Lagarias: (Re)discovering One’s Homeland. Letter and Travel Diaries in Short Essay Films from Romania

Jonida Gashi: (Hi)stories of Destruction and Renewal. How Adopting an Archival Lens Towards the (Neoliberal) Present Can Lead to the Imagining of Alternative Futures

Danai Anagnostou: Reframing Klonaris/Thomadaki’s Extended Practice as Auto(film)theory and Mapping Fragments of Women’s Collaborative Filmmaking in Greece (1962–1988)

Dunja Jelenkovic, PhD: In the Empty Archives of the Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film Festival. Curating Conflicting Memories of War

Andras Keskeny: Encyclopedic Ambitions, Fragmented Realities. Infermental and the Limits of Alternative Global Media Archive Networks in the 1980s

Žofia Ščuroková: Out of Frame. Archival Student Films and the Challenges of Preserving Institutional Memory at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava

Vesi Vuković: Yugoslav (Trans)national Memory on Rural Spaces: Short Documentary Films Girls Without Boy(friend)s (1963) and The Best Husband (1968) by Woman Filmmaker Vera Jocić

〰️ Articles
Sara Pinheiro: SLAM, Sounds Like a Movie

〰️ Reviews
Péter Lichter: Charting the Boundaries of an Invisible Empire (Kim Knowles and Jonathan Walley, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema)

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

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