Keywords:
super 8, hungarian cinema, late socialism, amateur filmmaking, experimental cinema, 1980s
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Abstract
The Balázs Béla Studio uniquely defined filmic experimentation in 1970s socialist Hungary, allowing it to thrive mainly on 35mm and 16mm. By the 1980s, younger generations turned away from these formats towards Super 8. This paper explores the socio-cultural and institutional contexts of the late socialist period within which this change occurred. It does this by focusing on two diverging filmmaking milieus that used Super 8 in the early 1980s: a film competition by the Indigo Group, a collective of artists inspired by the leading neo-avant-garde figure Miklós Erdély, and a group of rebellious, marginalized young filmmakers active within the K?bánya Amateur Film Studio. While these alternative film experiments differed widely in both artistic interests and filmmaking styles, considering them together allows us to understand the varied role Super 8 played in carving out degrees of independence in (film) cultural milieus during socialism's final decade.
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