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April 2024 blog post – Farewell to our Research Project
In this last blog post PhD researcher Boglárka Angéla Farkas shares her intellectual journey through the project, and project director Andrea Virginás provides a short summary, touching upon the activities of the project and expressing her gratitude towards the supporters of our research. Discovering Losses of Different Ranges (Boglárka Angéla…
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March 2024 blog post – Short Reflections on Some Recently Released Movies: Old and New Trauma(s)
Author: Mihály Lakatos In the past year, several movies have been premiered, offering particularly rewarding opportunities for analysis from the perspective of trauma(s). In this blog post, I aim to reflect on some of these movies, exploring how trauma is portrayed (and sometimes processed), the cinematic tools employed by the filmmakers,…
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February 2024 blog post – A Few Notions Regarding the Representation of Roma in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema – Part 3: After the Fall of the Iron Curtain and with the Arrival of Neoliberal Capitalism
Author: Mihály Lakatos Part 1, Part 2. As in Romanian cinema, there are few films in Hungarian cinema that reflect on the traumatic circumstances that followed the regime change. Béla Tarr’s epic masterpiece Sátántangó from 1994 or Fernec Török’s Moscow Square from 2001 have to be mentioned here. However, if we talk about the…
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January 2024 blog post – Some Notes on Our Research Interviews: Representation, Ethics and Challenges of Trauma on Film
Author: Farkas Boglárka During our research project, we had the opportunity to speak with several film directors, whose work we find extremely relevant in the context of trauma representation on film, more specifically, representations that involve cultural, personal and/or climate traumas. Although some of these valuable insights were already shared…
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December 2023 blog post – East of Eden: Personal trauma, cultural trauma and trauma processing in Larry (2022)
Author: Farkas Boglárka Introduction Szilárd Bernáth’s first feature-length fictional film, Larry (2022), focuses on Ádám (Benett Vilmányi), a 21-year-old boy, who lives in the marginalized, eastern county of Hungary, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, and works as a shepherd. The boy struggles with heavy stuttering and lives with his middle-aged father, Zoltán (Szabolcs Thuróczy), who is…
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November 2023 blog post – A Glimpse at Our Research Team’s Conference Presentations
In our June 2023 blogpost we presented our group panel proposal on Cultural Traumas for the conference Miscommunication in East-Central European Cinemas. The lively and insightful two days in Bucharest were organized by SNSPA’s Denisa Oprea and UNATC’s Liri Alienor Chapelan, and below you may see some photos from the event. Our…
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October 2023 blog post – A Few Notions Regarding the Representation of Roma in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema – Part 2: After the Fall of the Iron Curtain and with the Arrival of Neoliberal Capitalism
Author: Mihály Lakatos Part 1. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, both Romania and Hungary underwent a transition to a market economy and a democratic political system. While this transition brought about positive changes in many aspects, it also presented challenges, including issues related to human rights, social inequality,…
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September 2023 blog post – Summer of 2023: First International Publications of the CultTraumCin Project
Author: Andrea Virginás The road from an idea leads through several conference presentations that develop it and that benefit immensely from the input of generous conference colleagues. However, until the publication giving it an academically accepted form – and again greatly enhanced by the contribution of anonymous reviewers – a…
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August 2023 blog post – A Few Notions Regarding the Representation of Roma in Romanian and Hungarian Cinema – Part 1: The Cold War Era
Author: Mihály Lakatos (Eastern) Europe’s Roma communities, historically subjected to discrimination and oppression, stand out as the most susceptible group to statelessness within the region. This vulnerability stems from various factors, encompassing state transitions and complexities in nationality regulations. Additionally, the unique status of these communities plays a significant role:…
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July 2023 blog post – Speaking the Language of Trees: Trauma Processing and Post-Anthropocentric Approach in White Plastic Sky
Author: Boglárka Angéla Farkas Having had its world premiere in the 2023 Berlinale Encounters program, Tibor Bánóczki and Sarolta Szabó’s animated feature debut, White Plastic Sky, visions a post-apocalyptic future in which human survival demands unbearable human sacrifice. Set in the year 2123, the story presents the capital city of Hungary,…