| Abstrakt: |
This text aims at drawing attention to the importance of the community aspect of today's festivals of independent auteur animation and the creation of so-called imagined communities (as originally described and analysed by Benedict Anderson) within them. Two specific Czech and Slovak festivals are used in the text as case studies: the Festival of Film Animation Olomouc (PAF) and Fest Anča Žilina. It employs oral history and its methodology as the main approach to a deeper analysis of the potential role of such festivals within the independent animation community. The author proceeds from the assertion that these types of festivals, within such marginalized communities as the independent animation community (for example, from the production, distribution or media point of view), have certain typical characteristics of medieval carnivals (as described and analysed by Michael Bachtin) and could therefore provide similar benefits for the people involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
