relics of communist architecture documenting socialist architecture in eastern block videoart...

RELICS OF COMMUNIST

ARCHITECTURE

DOCUMENTING SOCIALIST ARCHITECTURE IN EASTERN BLOCK

VIDEOART PROJECT by Haruna Honcoopova / www.harunahoncoop.com

BIO / INTRO

CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE GRADUATE (2008) – SINOLOGY – comparative approach - sino–japanese war in film, running school film club, amnesty international taiwan film festival

work 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

Why 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

VIDEO / STUDY CASE

TREI MINUTE DESPRE UN ORAS BUCURESTI (4:20, 2015) - https://vimeo.com/132759924

METHODOLOGY – research &

videoproductionState of research in each country - books, films, documentary films, organizations dealing with the topic, contacting architecture department at local universities, museums

Videoproduction

1. Create a list of locations, collecting archival footage, photographs

2. Contacting local filmmakers for help, Searching for locals to show me to locations, filming

3. Music composition – work with music local music composers – old communist songs, speeches – mash up composition

4. Editing, translation

5. Distribution – film festivals, galleries, online

GENERAL RESOURCES about socialist modernism /ARCHITECTURE

Books 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, 1970-1990

Film: architecture and power

www.socialistmodernism.com

romanian NGO: an initiative to protect and document socialist

architecture, statues and public spaces developed by BACU –

Bureau for Art and Urban Research

BUDAPEST

State 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

Shooting locations in BUDAPEST

koztarsasag ter

Széll Kálman ter

felvonulasi ter

csepel muvek

déli pályaudvar

 kutvolgyi korhaz

krisztinakorut magas haz

MÉMOSZ-székház

szovjet emlékm

farkasrét templom

corvin áruház ma.

Budapest hotel

OSA MATERIALS

Hu OSA 306 – collective works – records related to the 1956 revolution

Hu 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, 1980-1989

HU 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

FUTURE

Fining 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