Alternative Europe - Stojanova

Read Christina Stojanova's article "Mise-en-Scenes of the impossible: Soviet and Russian Horror Films" in Alternative Europe.
Page 92: interesting notion of Kitezh-Grad, a Russian Atlantis. 
page 93
Would like to see "Novi Gulliver (New Gulliver), an animated feature from 1935 by Ptushk.
Also interested in "Vyi (Spirit of Evil), a 1967 Baba Yaga film.
Page 99: "necrorealist", interested in naturalistic-nihalistic aesthetics.

Altrnative Europe - Mathijs

Borrowed "Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema since 1945" from Christina Stojanova. Today I read "Alternative Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity: S. and the Affaire Dutroux" by Ernest Mathijs.
Notes: page 67, describes film S. as having abundant "film fluids of all kinds (snow, tears, slime, blood, wine, melting butter, water and sperm) abound".

Page 69 "Belgian film critics have always tried to exclude social commentary from their interpretations, focusing instead on film as film, and trying to draw aesthetic comparisons instead of cultural ones, even if this implies a retreat from a position as public intellectual. It is an attitude typically occurring at moments when criticism fails to find a suitable frame of reference to place a cultural representation in.".

Pge 72, "Movies from New York to Belgium and vice versa are suggested through miniatures in glass bowls, sealed off from the outside world".

Page 74, "order is threatened .... by imperfect body" (citing Laura Mulvey).