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New Waves, New Spaces: Estonian Experimental Cinema of the 1970s
New Waves, New Spaces: Estonian Experimental Cinema of the 1970s

Author(s): Eva Näripea
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Eesti Kunstiteadlaste Ühing

Summary/Abstract: The article concentrates on the films of Jaan Tooming, a rebellious Estonian auteur whose cinematic oeuvre of the 1970s was typically geared towards undermining the powers that be. His experimental films, especially the infamously banned Endless Day (1971/1990), favour Lefebvrian differential space over the abstract space of mainstream cinema, radically renewing the visual and narrative form of Estonian cinema and offering shifting registers of spatio-social portrayals and critiques of the Soviet ideological apparatus.

  • Issue Year: 20/2011
  • Issue No: 03+04
  • Page Range: 58-61
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English