DOCUMENTING SOCIALIST ARCHITECTURE IN EASTERN BLOCK VIDEOART PROJECT by Haruna Honcoopova wwwharunahoncoopcom BIO INTRO CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE GRADUATE 2008 SINOLOGY comparative approach ID: 812661
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RELICS OF COMMUNIST ARCHITECTURE
DOCUMENTING SOCIALIST ARCHITECTURE IN EASTERN BLOCK
VIDEOART PROJECT
by
Haruna
Honcoopova
/
www.harunahoncoop.com
Slide2BIO / INTROCHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE GRADUATE (2008) – SINOLOGY – comparative approach - sino–japanese war in film, running school film club, amnesty international taiwan film festivalwork experience / freelance: Film festivals – translations, production – one world, documentary film festivals..
Filmmaking – international network of filmmakers “KINO” – self taught filmmaking. Professional film production- assistant on feature film sets
development
of WWII documentary film about
french
war prisoners in the CZ (2013
), shooting in Guatemala (201O)
–
social issues and religion
10/ 2015 – FAMU – FILM ACADEMY OF PRAGUE – proper study of
filmmaking
Slide3Why socialist architecture?Came across the topic while traveling in eastern europe - Bucharest – 2013 socialist architecture, statues, public spaces from 1950’s – 1990’s Not very well documented and covered topic – not taught at art history or architecture universities, it is a minority interest in the czech republic, no ngos or initiatives to protect those buildings
Slide4VIDEO / STUDY CASETREI MINUTE DESPRE UN ORAS BUCURESTI (4:20, 2015) - https://vimeo.com/132759924
Slide5METHODOLOGY – research & videoproductionState of research in each country - books, films, documentary films, organizations dealing with the topic, contacting architecture department at local universities, museumsVideoproductionCreate a list of locations, collecting archival footage, photographsContacting local filmmakers for help, Searching for locals to show me to locations, filmingMusic composition – work with music local music composers – old communist songs, speeches – mash up compositionEditing, translation
Distribution – film festivals, galleries, online
Slide6GENERAL RESOURCES about socialist modernism /ARCHITECTUREBooks of photographs: "Sozialistische Moderne - Archäologie einer Zeit" ("Socialist Modernism - Archeology of
an
Era
“, 2011)
by
Roman
Bezjak
-
5 years taking pictures in the region -
Poland, Lithuania, Serbia, Hungary, Ukraine and
Georgia"Cosmic Communist Constructions,” - by French photographeR Frédéric ChaubiN – 90 buildings in 14 ex-Soviet Republics, 1970-1990Film: architecture and power www.socialistmodernism.com romanian NGO: an initiative to protect and document socialistarchitecture, statues and public spaces developed by BACU – Bureau for Art and Urban Research
Slide7BUDAPESTState of research: -Film: BUDAPEST RETRO by Gábor szigmond papp (1998)
-Books:
Politics in Color and
Concrete
: Socialist
Materialities
and
the
Middle Class in
Hungary
by
Krisztina Fehérváry (CEU LIBRARY)-museums: memento park, house of terror-blogs written in hungarian - Communist History of budapest Communist guided tours
Slide8Shooting locations in BUDAPESTkoztarsasag terSzéll Kálman terfelvonulasi tercsepel muvekdéli pályaudvar kutvolgyi korhazkrisztinakorut magas hazMÉMOSZ-székházszovjet emlékm
farkasrét templom
corvin áruház ma.
Budapest hotel
Slide9OSA MATERIALSHu OSA 306 – collective works – records related to the 1956 revolutionHu OSA 320 PRIVATE PHOTOS AND FILMS - 453 CONTAINERS HU OSA 320-1 Films, 1910-1996 HU OSA 320-1-1 Original finding aid to the home movies, 1980-1989HU OSA 320-1-2 Hungarian home movies, 1910-2000
HU OSA 320-1-3
Interviews with relatives of home movie makers, 1985-1997
HU OSA 320-1-4
Art documentaries of Peter
Forgacs
, 1933-
1960
HU
Osa
394
- Records
of the Film Studio of the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior
Slide10FUTUREFining a producer and necessary funding with the bucharest trailer Travel, research and film in 10 cities- Berlin, warsaw, prague, bratislava, dunaujvaros, moscow
,
belgrade
,
chisinau
,
beijing
,
pyongyang
FILM FESTIVAL
SUBMISSION / distribution of the collection of videos
VIDEOART INSTALLATION IN THE GALLERies – 1st presentation of the work: videokemp videoart festival in Prague 31/7/2015