Critical Writing Index

The Signs of Avant-Garde Cinema in Amateur Nonprofessional Cinema

by Remigijus Venckus

The Spaces of Creation (Kurybos erdves), 2008, no. 9, pp. 81-99

This article is about the amateur cinema of Lithuania and the avant-garde aesthetics that the author argues predominate in these films. The author uses a combination of Derridean terminology and avant-garde theory from the mid-20th century to analyze the avant-garde aesthetics of the films, most of which date from around the 1980s. The article is written in Lithuanian, and appears on the page beside an English translation.

ITEM 2008.190 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

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Better than Heaven, Worse than Hell – Anonymous

A Tempest – J. Cergelis

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A Garden that Has Never Been Blooming – A. Kulikauskas

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An Over-achiever – V. Gaigalas

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