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TIFS - Autumn ball
Tallinn International Film Society (TIFS) film club will screen the film Autumn Ball by Veiko Õunpuu at the Film Museum on Saturday, November 25 at 1:00 p.m.
The film is preceded by an introduction in English by professor Eneken Laanes, who is the professor of comparative Literature at Tallinn University. Eneken's research interests cut across cultural memory studies, comparative literature, translation studies and post-socialist memory cultures in Eastern Europe, whereas her ongoing project is called Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena (https://translatingmemories.tlu.ee/).
The TIFS tickets will also provide FREE entry to the Estonian History Museum in Maarjamäe castle to the main exhibition “My free country”, where the audience can further discover the topics covered in the film.
The curator of the TIFS film program, an award-winning film critic and the author of “101 Estonian Films” Tristan Priimägi has written about the movie in the following way:
"Autumn ball is both a new and expected vision of Eastern-Europe. Just like a test chamber, in which the Eastern-European essence has been inserted so that it could be dissected in the laboratory. As a piece, Autumn ball is not associated with any specific time period (it could take place any time) and is more focused on showing an idea rather than specific story, but the physical space is clear- “Eastern-Europe” as a figurative space, without the need to mention specific geographical location.
On one hand, this film serves the West's desire to define the new East, and by defining it, to emphasise the gap between the two. The wish to approach East as The Other, which should be examined as something exotic rather than something of its own. Thus, the cinematic perception of the East becomes a product that fills a specific niche, having its own location in the European film landscape and a clear function (see also Romania, the Balkans, etc.). On the other hand, by playing the Western game and meeting these expectations, the East quietly and imperceptibly acquires the colours and customs of the West, quietly working towards assimilation. A relationship of interdependence between West and East that tries to make the two pull and push at the same time.
Autumn Ball was Estonia's first and, in many ways, the only successful attempt to enter this market segment of "Eastern Europeanism" internationally. As a result, one of the best films in Estonian film history was born."
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The film is preceded by an introduction in English by professor Eneken Laanes, who is the professor of comparative Literature at Tallinn University. Eneken's research interests cut across cultural memory studies, comparative literature, translation studies and post-socialist memory cultures in Eastern Europe, whereas her ongoing project is called Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena (https://translatingmemories.tlu.ee/).
The TIFS tickets will also provide FREE entry to the Estonian History Museum in Maarjamäe castle to the main exhibition “My free country”, where the audience can further discover the topics covered in the film.
The curator of the TIFS film program, an award-winning film critic and the author of “101 Estonian Films” Tristan Priimägi has written about the movie in the following way:
"Autumn ball is both a new and expected vision of Eastern-Europe. Just like a test chamber, in which the Eastern-European essence has been inserted so that it could be dissected in the laboratory. As a piece, Autumn ball is not associated with any specific time period (it could take place any time) and is more focused on showing an idea rather than specific story, but the physical space is clear- “Eastern-Europe” as a figurative space, without the need to mention specific geographical location.
On one hand, this film serves the West's desire to define the new East, and by defining it, to emphasise the gap between the two. The wish to approach East as The Other, which should be examined as something exotic rather than something of its own. Thus, the cinematic perception of the East becomes a product that fills a specific niche, having its own location in the European film landscape and a clear function (see also Romania, the Balkans, etc.). On the other hand, by playing the Western game and meeting these expectations, the East quietly and imperceptibly acquires the colours and customs of the West, quietly working towards assimilation. A relationship of interdependence between West and East that tries to make the two pull and push at the same time.
Autumn Ball was Estonia's first and, in many ways, the only successful attempt to enter this market segment of "Eastern Europeanism" internationally. As a result, one of the best films in Estonian film history was born."
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- Tickets 8€/6€ (ticket also provides free entry to the exhibition “My free country”)
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