bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Acoustic absorption measurement for the determination of the volume viscosity of pure fluids / Messverfahren für die akustischen Absorption zur Bestimmung der Volumenviskosität reiner Fluide
Authors: Claes Leander , Hülskämper Lars Moritz , Baumhögger Elmar , Feldmann Nadine , Spencer Chatwell René , Vrabec Jadran , Henning Bernd
Published: August 2019

A realistic description of fluid mechanical and acoustic processes requires the volume viscosity of the medium to be known. This work describes how the volume viscosity of pure fluids can be determined by measuring acoustic absorption with the pulse-echo method. The challenge in realizing such a measurement method lies in the separation of the different dissipative effects that superimpose on absorption. Diffraction effects ultimately cause a dissipation of acoustic energy and acoustic reflector surfaces have a small, but finite transmission coefficient. Further, influences of the transducer (in particular its frequency response), as well as the system’s electrical components have to be taken into account. In contrast to the classical approach relying on the amplitude ratio, the absorption is determined by the moments of the amplitude spectrum. The measurement system applied is originally designed for precision measurements of the sound velocity by means of the propagation time difference of two acoustic signals.
Onlinefähige Signalauswertung für spektraloptische Sensoren mit einer Doppelphotodiode / Online-capable signal processing for spectral-optical sensors using a double-layered photodiode
Authors: Wuchrer Roland , Härtling Thomas , Gerlach Gerald
Published: August 2019

Spektraloptische Sensorik erfasst sowohl physikalische als auch (bio-)chemische Messgrosen auf der Grundlage von deĄnierten spektralen Eigenschaftsanderungen des Messwandlers. In diesem Beitrag wird dafur eine Signalauswertung mit einer Doppelphotodiode (DPD) vorgestellt, die durch ihren Stapelaufbau aus zwei unterschiedlich spektralempfindlichen Photodiodenschichten gleichzeitig spektralselektives Element und Detektor ist. Statt wie bisher die spektrale Information aus einem Spektrum zu extrahieren, wird der Schwerpunkt der spektralen Gesamtverteilung anhand des gemessenen Verhaltnisses der beiden wellenlangenabhangigen Photostrome echtzeitfahig ausgewertet. Die Leistungsfahigkeit der DPD wird anhand von OberĆachentemperaturmessungen mit dem Leuchtstoff NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+demonstriert. Es zeigt sich, dass mit einer Integrator-basierten Auswerteelektronik eine max. Messabweichung der Schwerpunktwellenlange von 0,1 nm erreicht werden kann. Die onlinefahige Signalverarbeitung und kompakte Baugrose der Doppelphotodiode befordert die vor-Ort-Eignung spektraloptischer Sensoren fur die Prozessindustrie, das Umweltmonitoring und viele andere Bereiche.
Development of a hybrid vibration converter for real vibration source / Entwicklung eines Hybrid-Vibrationswandlers für eine echte Schwingungsquelle
Authors: Bradai Sonia , Naifar Slim , Kanoun Olfa
Published: August 2019

Harvesting energy from ambient vibration sources is challenging due to its low characteristic amplitude and frequencies. In this purpose, this work presents a compact hybrid vibration converter based on electromagnetic and magnetoelectric principles working for a frequency bandwidth and under real vibration source properties. The combination of especially these two principles is mainly due to the fact that both converters can use the same changes of the magnetic field for energy harvesting. The converter was investigated using finite element analysis and validated experimentally. Results have shown that a frequency bandwidth up to 12 Hz with a characteristic resonant frequency at 24 Hz and a power density of 0.11mW/cm3 can be reached.
Uncertainty comparison of velocity estimators for ultrasound flow imaging in narrow channels / Messunsicherheitsvergleich von Geschwindigkeitsschätzern der Ultraschallströmungsbildgebung in schmalen Kanälen
Authors: Weik David , Kupsch Christian , Nauber Richard , Büttner Lars , Czarske Jürgen
Published: August 2019

Ultrasound Imaging with a linear phased array allows measuring turbulent vector profiles in two dimension with two components (2D2C). This is interesting in narrow channels for the application in battery cells or research in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), where the access to the opaque fluid is often restricted. There are two main velocity estimation methods applicable: the Ultrasound Doppler Velocimetry (UDV) or the Ultrasound Image Velocimetry (UIV). In this work, these methods were evaluated by their attainable measurement uncertainty for the application in narrow channels, where the acquisition of the lateral velocity component is crucial. With a calibration rig, UIV could achieve a total measurement uncertainty of 9.9% and UDV 17.6%. As UIV reaches a 44% lower measurement uncertainty, it is the preferential method to measure lateral flows in narrow channels. In future work, the calibration rig will be adapted to optimize and characterize the flow instrumentation in opaque liquid metals.
Ortsaufgelöste spektrale Entmischung mit Hilfe von konvolutionalen neuronalen Netzen / Spatially resolved spectral unmixing using convolutional neural networks
Authors: Anastasiadis Johannes , Puente León Fernando
Published: August 2019

In diesem Beitrag wird ein modellfreier Ansatz, basierend auf einem konvolutionalen neuronalen Netz, für die spektrale Entmischung von Hyperspektralbildern vorgestellt. Dieser wird anhand von Beispieldatensätzen evaluiert und mit Methoden, denen das lineare Mischmodell zugrunde liegt, verglichen. Außerdem werden Möglichkeiten vorgestellt, wie die physikalische Interpretierbarkeit der geschätzten Materialanteile gewährleistet werden kann. Bei dem hier vorgestellten Ansatz geschieht dies durch Ausgangsschichten, die erzwingen, dass die geschätzten Materialanteile alle positiv sind und in der Summe eins ergeben.
A rare case of focal segmental glomerular sclerosis and subsequent necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis in the same patient
Authors: Cho Jake , Lara Erika , Nwakoby Izuchukwu
Published: August 2019

Background: Focal segmental glomerular sclerosis (FSGS) and necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis is a rare combination of diagnoses in the same patient. We report on a patient with FSGS who 10 years later developed anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) associated glomerulonephritis. Case Presentation: Patient is a 60-year-old female with chronic kidney disease stage 3, osteopenia and anemia. In 2007, she was positive for ANCA proteinase-3 antibody, but kidney biopsy revealed FSGS. She was treated with high-dose oral steroids with tapered dose and went into remission. In 2017, she developed acute renal failure with increased proteinuria. Despite prior FSGS diagnosis, her new kidney biopsy revealed pauci-immune necrotizing glomerulonephritis. Patient was treated with methylprednisolone 250 mg IV for three days and high dose oral steroids with tapered dose. She was also started on rituximab 375 mg/m2 IV once weekly for 4 doses. Given the extent of kidney damage, the patient decided to start peritoneal dialysis and she is also on the kidney transplant list. Conclusions: The rare concurrence of FSGS and ANCA associated glomerulonephritis has not yet been reported. The case also emphasizes the significance of screening for ANCA or obtaining kidney biopsy when indicated not only as the gold standard for diagnosis but also as prognostic value.
IgA nephropathy presenting with pulmonary thromboembolism and renal artery infarct
Authors: Venkatesan Madhav , Mathew Anil , Nair Rajesh , Kurian George , NV Seethalekshmy , Sreedharan Sandeep , Paul Zachariah
Published: August 2019

Background: Venous and arterial thromboembolism are frequently seen in nephrotic syndrome. They generally occur during periods of sustained proteinuria in patients who are not responding to treatment and more commonly seen in minimal change disease and membranous nephropathy. Case Presentation: A 28-year-old male presented to cardiology department of our hospital with worsening breathlessness for 1 week. We found pulmonary embolism and an infarct in the lower pole of the right kidney by CT pulmonary angiogram. He had no previous history or features of nephrotic syndrome. Urine analysis showed numerous red blood cells, 3+ proteinuria and granular casts. Urine protein creatinine ratio was 5.2 g/g of creatinine. Serum creatinine was 2.61 mg/dL. Renal biopsy was suggestive of IgA nephropathy and patient was started on steroids and warfarin and responded to treatment. Conclusions: Patients with nephrotic syndrome can rarely present initially with venous and arterial thromboembolism. Rarely even IgA nephropathy can present with such thromboembolic episodes.
Solar Heat Reflective Coating for Sidewalks Considering Cooling Effect, Anti-Skid Performance, and Human Comfort
Authors: Zhu Xingyi , Yu Yue , Chen Long , Zhang Dawei
Published: August 2019

The solar heat reflective coating for sidewalks (SHRCS) is investigated in the present article. Compared with the reflective coating for the traffic lane, the reflective coating for the sidewalk has low requirements for abrasion resistance but high requirements for human comfort. Therefore, cooling characteristics, anti-skid performance, abrasion resistance, and sports performance are chosen to assess SHRCS. SHRCS consists of three layers, the bottom layer, the elastic layer, and the surface layer. The materials of the three layers were determined. Particularly, because the surface layer is composed of resin, functional materials, and pigments, the suitable surface resin was chosen from five kinds of resin, and the Taguchi orthogonal array design method was used to determine the optimal mix ratio of the surface layer materials. The in situ test shows that the surface of the road using SHRCS can be cooled by 5.9°C versus the original road surface. The temperature difference of the skin surface between standing on the coated and uncoated road can reach 1.6°C. In the end, the sports performance characteristics of SHRCS, such as the vertical ball rebound, were tested.
Frizzled3andFrizzled6Cooperate withVangl2to Direct Cochlear Innervation by Type II Spiral Ganglion Neurons
Authors: Ghimire Satish R. , Deans Michael R.
Published: August 2019

Type II spiral ganglion neurons provide afferent innervation to outer hair cells of the cochlea and are proposed to have nociceptive functions important for auditory function and homeostasis. These neurons are anatomically distinct from other classes of spiral ganglion neurons because they extend a peripheral axon beyond the inner hair cells that subsequently makes a distinct 90 degree turn toward the cochlear base. As a result, patterns of outer hair cell innervation are coordinated with the tonotopic organization of the cochlea. Previously, it was shown that peripheral axon turning is directed by a nonautonomous function of the core planar cell polarity (PCP) protein VANGL2. We demonstrate using mice of either sex thatFzd3andFzd6similarly regulate axon turning, are functionally redundant with each other, and thatFzd3genetically interacts withVangl2to guide this process. FZD3 and FZD6 proteins are asymmetrically distributed along the basolateral wall of cochlear-supporting cells, and are required to promote or maintain the asymmetric distribution of VANGL2 and CELSR1. These data indicate that intact PCP complexes formed between cochlear-supporting cells are required for the nonautonomous regulation of axon pathfinding. Consistent with this, in the absence of PCP signaling, peripheral axons turn randomly and often project toward the cochlear apex. Additional analyses ofPorcnmutants in which WNT secretion is reduced suggest that noncanonical WNT signaling establishes or maintains PCP signaling in this context. A deeper understanding of these mechanisms is necessary for repairing auditory circuits following acoustic trauma or promoting cochlear reinnervation during regeneration-based deafness therapies.

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTPlanar cell polarity (PCP) signaling has emerged as a complementary mechanism to classical axon guidance in regulating axon track formation, axon outgrowth, and neuronal polarization. The core PCP proteins are also required for auditory circuit assembly, and coordinate hair cell innervation with the tonotopic organization of the cochlea. This is a non–cell-autonomous mechanism that requires the formation of PCP protein complexes between cochlear-supporting cells located along the trajectory of growth cone navigation. These findings are significant because they demonstrate how the fidelity of auditory circuit formation is ensured during development, and provide a mechanism by which PCP proteins may regulate axon outgrowth and guidance in the CNS.
Diksi Diksi dalam Kumpulan Puisi Sarinah Karya Esha Tegar
Authors: Herthalia Regina Ayu , Andalas Maharani Intan
Published: August 2019

ABSTRACT

Literary works is one form of art in which language is used as a medium, one of them is poetry. Language in poetry is free and solid regarding the licencia poetica, yet it still contains various aspects of life as the poet’s idea. In order to convey his ideas, the poet uses diction on poetry. The usage of dictions on poetry are able to reveal many things, for example, a city. The description of a city through diction within literary works are often depicted through Indonesian poetry. One of those poetry collections which potray a city through diction usage is Sarinah Poetry Collection by Esha Tegar Putra. This research present the usage of dictions within Sarinah Poetry Collection by Esha Tegar Putra. The problems being discussed are (1) how does the diction interpret a city within the Sarinah Poetry Collection by Esha Tegar Putra (2) how is the relation between the diction and other poetry elements contain in Sarinah Poetry Collection by Esha Tegar and (3) how does the meaning contained within Sarinah Poetry Collection by Esha Tegar Putra related to the diction which intepreted city. The approach used in this research is stylictica with qualitative method. The data were obtained from fifteen poems  written in Sarinah Poetry Collection by Esha Tegar Putra. The result of this study showed that within this Sarinah Poetry Collection are carried diction in form of nouns, verbs, dictions with connotative and dennotative meaning, and diction in form of basic words also words that have undergone morphological processes. The usage of the diction based on the word type and the meaning type is aiming more valid interpretation about city, such as name of the places and facilities provided in the city. Based on the form, the usage of the diction within  Sarinah Poetry Collection is working as the element to strengthen the atmosphere withi the poems. the diction contained in this poem are related to other poetry elements such as tone, imagery and figure of speech, so that they could bring a whole unity meaning of the poem. The diction being used by the poet is functioning to reinforce the meaning and the atmosphere, so that the depiction about a trip, traffic jam, bustle, poverty, environmental matters and injustice that represent a city is clearly present.

Keywords: Diction, Poetry Collection, Sarinah, Stylistic
Tatanan Sosial Masyarakat Jawa dalam Puisi Bolong Karya Joko Pinurbo
Authors: Turahmat Turahmat
Published: August 2019

Masyarakat Jawa merupakan masyarakat yang berlapis dengan penandaan golongan melalui suatu cara hidup. Masyarakat Jawa memiliki tatanan sosial yang mengatur anggotanya untuk senantiasa dijadikan pedoman dan tidak diabaikan sehingga melekat dalam pribadi sebagai identitas. Tatanan nilai sosial dapat diungkapkan melalui berbagai hal, salah satunya melalui karya sastra. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengungkap tatanan sosial masyarakat Jawa dalam puisi Bolong karya Joko Pinurbo. Penelitian ini dilakukan menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Data dalam penelitian ini adalah tatanan nilai sosial yakni Urip ora ngoyo, nrimo ing pandom, Ngajeni wong tua, dan ana catur mungkur yang bersumber dari puisi Bolong .

 Javanese society is a society that is layered with the designation of groups through a way of life. Javanese society has a social order that regulates its members to always be used as a guideline and not neglected so that it is inherent in the person as identity. The order of social values can be expressed through various things, one of which is through literature. This study aims to reveal the social fabric of Javanese society in Bolong poetry by Joko Pinurbo. This research was conducted using qualitative descriptive methods. The data in this study are social value structures, namely Urip ora ngoyo, nrimo ing pandom, Ngajeni wong tua, and chess games which are derived from Bolong poetry.
Absurditas Naskah Drama “Pelajaran” karya Eugene Ionesco
Authors: Yusriansyah Eka
Published: August 2019

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menelusuri wacana absurditas yang terlukis dalam naskah drama “Pelajaran” karya Eugene Ionesco. “Pelajaran” tergolong naskah absurd yang berarti berada di luar konvensi drama pada umumnya, tidak beralur, bertemakan nihilisme dan kesenduan metafisik, serta disesaki dialog yang hanya berupa celotehan tidak nyambung. Kepekaan intelektual dan penghayatan eksistensi kehidupan menjadi syarat kompetensi interpretasi. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif kualitatif yang memanfaatkan metode hermeneutika dengan mengadopsi pembacaan heuristik dan hermenuitik. Teori semiotika Riffaterre dan teori drama absurd digunakan untuk mengungkapkan tanda-tanda sebagai pembangun absurditas di luar logika. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa “Pelajaran” menyuguhkan absurditas kehidupan metafisik, kesia-siaan, pemberontakan, dan kematian yang dikemas melalui absurditas alur, penokohan, dan dialog irrasional. This research aims to investigate absurdity in “Pelajaran” drama script written by Eugene Ionesco. “Pelajaran”  belongs to the kind of absurd drama script since it breaks structure convention of common drama script. It is such unconventional kind of drama script which has no plot, unclear characterization, nihilism topics such metaphysical things, being isolate, rebellion, and death, also has irrational dialogue which only tells about unimportant things. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative research which used hermeneutic methods contained of two reading methods such heuristic and hermeneutic. The theory of semiotic Riffaterre applied in analyzing the symbols constructed in the text which combined with the theory of drama absurd suggested by Martin Esslin used to find out the absurdity in the text. The result of the research shows that “Pelajaran” presents the absurdity of life such metaphysics, disconsolate, rebellion, and death. Those all things presented through absurdity of plot, characterization, and irrational dialogue.
Konflik Batin Tokoh Utama dalam Novel Ada Surga di Rumahku Karya Oka Aurora Sebagai Alternatif Bahan Ajar Pembelajaran Sastra di SMA
Authors: Juwariyah Juwariyah , Sumartini Sumartini
Published: August 2019

Bahan ajar sastra yang dipilih oleh guru harus menyajikan berbagai nilai yang bisa diaplikasikan siswa dalam kehidupan nyata. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan wujud konflik batin yang mengandung nilai-nilai kehidupan novel Ada Surga di Rumahmu karya Oka Aurora. Pendekatan penelitian yang digunakan yaitu deskriptif kualitatif. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah novel berjudul “Ada Surga di Rumahmu” karya Oka Aurora. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis isi. Data dianalisis menggunakan teori psikopragmatik. Berdasarkan hasil analisis dan pembahasan disimpulkan bahwa wujud konflik batin dalam novel Ada Surga di Rumahmu karya Oka Aurora antara lain pertentangan antara pilihan yang tidak sesuai dengan keinginan, kebimbangan dalam menghadapi permasalahan, serta harapan tidak sesuai dengan kenyataan. Kesesuaian konflik batin yang mengandung nilai-nilai kehidupan dalam novel Ada Surga di Rumahmu karya Oka Aurora dapat dilihat dari aspek psikologi. Rekomendasi dari hasil penelitian diharapkan penyajian bahan ajar pembelajaran sastra di SMA senantiasa diperbaiki, diperbarui dan dimutakhirkan sesuai kebutuhan dan standar yang telah ditentukan.

Literary teaching materials chosen by the teacher must present various values that can be applied by  students in real life. The purpose of this research is to describe the form of inner conflict that contains the values of life in the novel Ada Surga di Rumahmu by Oka Aurora. The research approach used is descriptive qualitative. The data source in this researchis a novel titledAda Surga di Rumahmu by Oka Aurora. The method used in this researchis content analysis. Data was analyzed using psychopragmatic theory. Based on the results of the analysis and discussion, it was concluded that the form of inner conflict in the novel titledAda Surga di Rumahmuby Oka Aurora includes contradictions between choices that are not in accordance with desires, doubts in facing problems, and expectations not inaccordance with reality. The values of life contained in the novel titled Ada Surga di Rumahmu by Oka Aurora include moral values, religious values, social values, cultural values and educational values. Compatibility of inner conflict that contain the values of life in the novel Ada Surga di Rumahmu by Oka Aurora can be seen from the aspect of psychology. Recommendations from the results of the study are expected to present literature learning materials in high school always improved, updated and updated.according to the needs and standards that have been determined.
Karlovy Vary 2001
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2001 It came as no surprise when Jean-Pierre Jeunet's inventive Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie from Montmartre, France) was awarded the Crystal Globe the 36th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (5-14 July 2001) by an international jury headed by Poland's Krzysztof Zanussi. All the more so since this delightful comédie humaine -- about the dream world of a young waitress (Audrey Tautou) working at a bistro in Montmartre, who one day finds a hidden box full of childhood treasures in her apartment -- is currently a runaway box office hit in France. Just as impressive, however, was Robert Glinski's Czes Tereska (Hi, Tereska, Poland), awarded both the Special Jury Prize and the International Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize. This poignant portrait of a young girl seeking sexual and emotional stability in an environment that only restricts fulfilment came across as an authentic statement due to...
Singapore 2001
Authors: Wee Brandon
Published: August 2019

SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2001: CROUCHING TYRANTS, HIDDEN TALENTS For a young island-state that once saw a "golden age of cinema" in the 50s and 60s, it was bittersweet to witness, after a score of idle years, a rise in the number of local film productions in the 1990s. But where local movies of the past triumphed in forging an indigenous film culture, recent Singaporean films have all but ignored the significance of maintaining such an objective. History, in this instance, has indeed repeated itself. Just as the thriving industry that had once characterised the "golden age" succumbed to the escalating popularity of Hong Kong and Taiwanese films in the 60s and 70s, the haphazard accomplishments of Singaporean films this past decade look set to remain in subordination to a longer-standing nemesis: that of Hollywood's domination. The consequence of this status quo has only served to highlight the problematic use...
Barry Lyndon and the Limits of Understanding
Authors: Branch Jana , Izod John
Published: August 2019

BARRY LYNDON and eighteenth-century realismStanley Kubrick's famous obsession with authenticity was well established by the time he began work on Barry Lyndon. Critics and audiences alike anticipated a film that would not simply approximate the eighteenth century but recreate it, from the interior lives of its characters to the landscapes they inhabited. In some ways, Kubrick did not disappoint them; in other ways they were left deeply frustrated. The dividing line? Kubrick's distinctions pointing out what can and cannot be known - and thus reproduced on screen - about the past. What he left shrouded was seen as a failure by some critics and audiences. As much as they were fascinated by Kubrick's sumptuously framed vision of the life of Redmond Barry, they were angered at being shut out of the interiority that audiences have come to expect from a character-driven story. Barry Lyndon can be seen as...
Dogme 95 and the Reality of Fiction
Authors: Giralt Gabriel
Published: August 2019

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO REALITY: DOGME AND THE REALITY OF FICTION "The 'supreme' task of the decadent film-makers is to fool the audience. Is that what we are so proud of? Is that what ‘100 years' have brought us? Illusions via which emotions can be communicated? ... By the individual artist's free choice of trickery? ... To Dogme 95 the movie is not an illusion!...Dogme 95 counters the film of illusion by the presentation of an indisputable set of rules known as The Vow of Chastity."                    (extract from Dogme 95 manifesto) AFTER few international successes, Dogmesecretariat, the official entity responsible for issuing Dogme certificates, a guarantee that a film has been made following rigorously Dogme's "Vow of Chastity" is closed. After eight years since the group wrote its manifesto and five years since the movement brought forth its first Dogme film, the contention that "to Dogme 95...
The Case of István Szabó
Authors: Stojanova Christina
Published: August 2019

TAKING SIDES: THE CASE OF ISTVÁN SZABÓ THERE is a scene halfway through István Szabó's latest film, Taking Sides: The Case Furtwängler (2001, Germany-France), where the American interrogator Major Steve Arnold confronts the legendary German conductor and music director of the Berlin Philharmonic with the question why he did not leave Germany despite of his disapproval of the Nazi regime. Wilhelm Furtwängler's answer is humble and simple: because I am not Jewish and because I tried to help from inside. The crucial moral choice, involved in one's decision to leave one's country, the choice that could make or break a human being, has been one of the central themes of Szabó's oeuvre since Lovefilm (1970). A beautiful, nostalgic film about the passionate meeting in Paris of two lovers, separated by immigration for more than a decade after the bloody suppression of...
Conversation with Francesca Archibugi
Authors: Laviosa Flavia
Published: August 2019

CINEMA AS SOCIAL MIRROR: FLAVIA LAVIOSA IN CONVERSATION WITH ITALIAN DIRECTOR FRANCESCA ARCHIBUGI THE need to sublimate the familiar and ordinary in everyday life is a sentiment that underlies Francesca Archibugi's work. She offers audiences carefully orchestrated films dealing with a spectrum of sociological issues relating to the new Italian familyscape. Acting as a psychologist, sociologist, educator and parent, Archibugi can be defined as the director of the ‘growing-up' Italian. She documents, analyzes, chronicles and celebrates the qualities that make children and adolescents cultural protagonists of our era. The following interview is an analysis of the director's film production as a reflection of the socio-cultural changes in modern Italy. Laviosa: Children and adolescents are cultural protagonists in your films in the sense that they, "people of few years of age" as you define them, are often victims of family situations and they seem to act as moral judges towards the...
Fajr 2003
Authors: Dönmez-Colin Gönül
Published: August 2019

THE 21st FAJR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (1-11 February 2003) offered twenty-two films in the Competition section, three of which were from Iran. Reza Mir-Karimi's Here, a Shining Light explored the issue of religious faith in the story of the custodian of a shrine who looks for a replacement when he is obliged to go to town for medical treatment. Villagers who have lost faith in the shrine offer no help, which forces him to turn over the responsibility of the shrine to his mentally retarded son with unexpected consequences. Vahid Mousayian's second feature, Silence of the Sea was a poetic rendition of the inner turmoil of an exile trying to connect his severed ties with his roots. Asghar Farhadi's Dance in the Dust also delved into the theme of loneliness of the uprooted although the protagonist of his film was a simple Azari youth rather than an intellectual doctor...
St. Petersburg 2003
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

ST. PETERSBURG FESTIVAL OF FESTIVALS For much too long, the St. Petersburg Festival of Festivals has lingered in the shadows of the all-mighty Moscow International Film Festival. This year, however, everything has changed for the better. Since 2003 marks the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, the year has been one long celebration of events and festivals on the Neva. According to some reports, the 11th St. Petersburg Festival of Festivals (23-29 June) under director Alexander Mamontov received as much government funding as did the Moscow International Film Festival (21-30 June) under president Nikita Mikhalkov. Still, it's hard to figure out just why, in this year of national celebration, the calendar dates of the two film festivals should unfortunately overlap each other. But this is Russia. The same arm-wrestling for calendar position forced the Sochi International and Open Russian Film Festivals (1-14 June)...
Locarno 2003
Authors: Dönmez-Colin Gönül
Published: August 2019

THE 56th LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL'Scompetition section (6-16 August, 2003) offered nineteen films mostly representing Europe except for two from Latin America, one from the US and five films from Asia representing five different countries. The overriding theme of the festival seemed to be human rights. Solitude across generations was the most explored subject. Masahiro Kobayashi's Onna Riha Tsushi No Koi (The Hairdresser) was in some ways an extension of Japanese films of passion and obsession in the tradition of Oshima among others. The interesting part was that the woman who was abducted by her secret admirer gave in so easily, which magnified the sad solitude of her routine life with her obsessive gambler husband. The fact that the camera deliberately avoided to accentuate the passion, which was already overflowing was another plus to this film that impressed the audience with its composition, framing and tempo but...
Berlin 2003
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

WITH THE WORDS "TOWARDS TOLERANCE" prominently displayed on the front cover of the catalogue for the 53rd Berlinale (6-16 February 2003), accompanied by an appropriate essay by festival director Dieter Kosslick on the Berlinale contributing to "a greater understanding between cultures," the impending Iraqi war hung over the heads of the international jury like a Damocles sword. So the jury, headed by Canadian-Armenian director Atom Egoyan, appropriately awarded the Golden Bear to Michael Winterbottom's In This World (UK), a fiction-documentary about two young Afghans leaving a refugee camp in Peshawar to embark on an arduous journey along the ancient Silk Road - from Pakistan through Iran and Turkey to Istanbul and eventually London. That the film was shot with a digital camera (Marcel Zyskind) on actual locations adds to the immediacy of the journey, but it's the sound recording (Stuart Wilson) that sends some chills up your spine when...
Istanbul 2004
Authors: Dönmez-Colin Gönül
Published: August 2019

ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004 The International Istanbul Film Festival celebrated its 23rd birthday between 10-25 April, 2004 with almost 200 films from around the world. The most successful films of the year were showcased in the main programme, which comprised the National and International Competition; Young Stars of the World Cinema; Cinema, the Mirror of Our Times and From the World Festivals sections. Since the 1980 closure of the Turkish cinematheque (founded in 1965 by a small group of art-loving intellectuals) by the military regime of the epoch, the festival has shouldered the dual role of preserving the film heritage through several homages and tributes in the sidebars. Among the film personalities receiving tributes are Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, Ken Russell, Bahram Bayzai, John Cassavetes and Turkey's only real auteur, Ömer Kavur. Marco Ferreri was this year's "cult figure" with four of his films. Greek master Theo...
Bangkok 2004
Authors: Toh Hai Leong
Published: August 2019

BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2004 According to official figures, over 50,000 tickets were sold at the 1st Bangkok International Film Festival in 2003.  This year, only some 30,000 seats were taken, a sizable drop despite the massive budget of US$5 million, an improved film programme and a change of manage­ment: Craig Prater is now Executive Director and Jennifer Stark is Programme Director. Altogether, some 150 Thai and international films and digital videos from more than 24 countries were presented. The Festival (22 Jan to 2 Feb 2004), also saw the 1st Bangkok Film Market amidst the festival's glam, glitz, pomp and star-gazing. The opening film honour went to The Siam Renaissance by former experimental filmmaker Surapong Pinijkhar (Tawipop, Thailand, 2003). This stylish and fantastical blending of The Double Life of Veronique and Frequency stars the exotically pretty Florence Vanida F. as a Paris-based archivist who moves back in time to...
Vienna 2003
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

VIENNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2003 Right from the start, V'03 - The 2003 Vienna International Film Festival (17-29 October 2003) - was something special. An extra day had to be added onto the schedule to accommodate the run on tickets - 5,000 more sold than last year, for an overall attendance of 75,200. Altogether, "a nearly historic number of visitors," said festival director Hans Hurch at the close of the Viennale. To my regret, I arrived a day too late to see John Ford's Bucking Broadway (1917), a "Cheyenne Harry" Carey five-reeler found three years ago by chance in the archive of the Cinémathèque Française under the title Far West Drama. It was the sixth of 26 films made with Harry Carey and featured a rescue scene with a posse of cowboys ride down Broadway. But I did make in time to see Erich von Stroheim's silent classic The Merry...
Mannheim-Heidelberg 2003
Authors: Dönmez-Colin Gönül
Published: August 2019

MANNHEIM-HEIDELBERG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2003 One of the oldest festivals of Germany, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival has remained loyal to its motto of ‘new comers' festival' showcasing films from unknown talents or totally marginalized filmmakers who favour exploring new film language. This year's event, which took place from 20 to 29 November, 2003 presented a large selection of films from Europe such as De Arm van Jezus (The Arm of Jesus) by Andre van der Hout from Holland, Sauja lozu (Handful of Bullets) by Una Celma from Latvia, Baby by Linda Wendel from Denmark and Donau, Dunaj, Duna, Du­nav, Dunarea by Goran Rebi from Austria.    From Iran, an eye-catching film was Khamoushiye Darya (The Silence of the Sea) by Vahid Mousaian, a visual reflection on exile's return tracing the tormented journey of an Iranian doctor settled in Sweden as he smuggled himself into his country of birth sans...
Cannes 2005 Report
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

A Word from the PresidentOn the closing night of the 58th edition of the Festival de Cannes (11-22 May 2005), when president Gilles Jacob was asked to comment on the highlights of what was generally touted in the press and media as the most memorable festival in history, he promptly laid his cards on the table. "This year's Cannes will be remembered for breaking a lot of records: attendance, participation, guests, accreditations, you name it. Not all the facts and figures are in as yet, but we are fully aware of the emergence of a new style of international film festival." Pushed a bit further, he concluded: "This is the opposite of what André Malraux once said. We have shown that the industry of cinema is also an art." Asked about further expansion plans, Jacob countered with a shrug: "The idea is not to expand any more," he said....
Italian Director Cristina Comencini
Authors: Laviosa Flavia
Published: August 2019

FLAVIA LAVIOSA IN CONVERSATION WITH ITALIAN DIRECTOR CRISTINA COMENCINI A PROLIFIC  film director and screenplay writer as well as an accomplished novelist, Cristina Comencini (1956) is well known for her novels and her numerous films. Together with Francesca Archibugi (1960) and Roberta Torre (1962), she is one of the new Italian filmmakers who, in the last sixteen years, have become famous for having put forward new assertive female characters in cinema, thanks also to a good commercial distribution of her works. Comencini's films, Zoo (1988); I divertimenti della vita privata (Amusements of the Private Life, 1990); La fine è nota (The End Is Known, 1992); Va' dove ti porta il cuore (Follow Your Heart, 1996); Matrimoni (Marriages, 1998); Liberate I pesci! (Free the Fish!, 1999); Il più bel giorno della mia vita (The Best Day of My Life, 2002); La bestia nel cuore (The Beast In the Heart, 2005);...
The Christ-figure in Popular Films
Authors: Kozlovic Anton Karl
Published: August 2019

JESUS COVERED IN A SECULAR WRAPPER: THE CHRIST-FIGURE IN POPULAR FILMSPOPULAR feature films(1) should be put to work in the classroom, home or pulpit as a scholarly extra-ecclesiastical resource, and not relegated in a knee-jerk fashion to the status of visual aide, diversionary entertainment or student pacifier. In addition, religion, literature and film studies students should be sensitised to the numerous religious figurations hidden within their everyday video fare. After all, as Linda A. Mercadante (God 3) noted: "more than just media inundation, we have come to live in a media-mediated culture, where our understanding of life, reality and our own experience is filtered through video frames," unsettling as that may be to older generations. Mercadante's claim is of course understandable given that commercial feature films were the most persuasive art form of the 20th century, and they will continue to be so well into the...
Bangkok 2005
Authors: Wee Brandon
Published: August 2019

BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005 At the government-bankrolled Bangkok International Film Festival's third edition (13-20 January 2005), it should not have been surprising that nationalism would be a perceptible current in its Thai Panorama program. What made this particularly poignant was the festival's unfortunate coincidence with the aftermath of South Asia's devastating tsunami - customarily, a time occasioned by the need for solidarity, or at the very least, the appearance that national interests matter. How are national interests articulated in Thai cinema? Certainly, they are not novel. Besides horror and transvestitism, Thai blockbusters have also been thematically marked by national pride and jingoism. The successes of Thanit Jitnukul's Bang Rajan (2000) and Chatrichalerm Yukol's 2001 Suriyothai are just two instances of period epics that chart Siamese solidarity and sacrifice against Burmese aggression. More recently, the martial arts gloss of Prachya Pinkaew's Ong-Bak (2003) largely eclipsed its portrayal of the Thai...
Leipzig 2005
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

LEIPZIG INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR DOCUMENTARY AND ANIMATION FILMS 2005 Counting the years since its founding in 1955, the Leipzig DOK festival should be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. But since two "DOK Weeks" were skipped in the 1950s by GDR festival officials for one reason or another, the big celebration is yet to come in 2007. No matter - it's the continuity that counts. Indeed, over the years, DOK Leipzig has been the best festival barometer on the calendar for charting the shifting changes in the relationship between East and West, between Eastern and Western Europe, between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. This year, for the 48th Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animation Films (3-9 October 2005), the second under the aegis of Claas Danielsen, it was no different. "Traditionally we have focused on the East," he penned in the forward of...
Locarno 2005
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

WIM WENDERS IN LOCARNO AND BUTTE "The cinema has replaced the church" - ran the headline atop an interview with Wim Wenders in the Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger on the second day of the 58th Locarno International Film Festival (3-13 August 2005). Although this flip phrase was part of a rather innocuous dialogue with the German cult director about himself and his film career, Wenders felt obliged nonetheless to excuse himself before a large ecumenical gathering on the occasion of Interfilm's 50th anniversary. Besides, he was about to be handed the Interfilm Honorary Award for his achievements as a film director. "That headline was not my idea," he said. And added: "I felt especially honoured in the laudatio when my work was compared to that of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin." Queried as to whether "cinema has really replaced the church," Wenders could only smile. Every cineaste in the room knew...
The Thin Red Line and the World War II Hollywood Tradition
Authors: Thanouli Eleftheria
Published: August 2019

THE THIN RED LINE AND THE HOLLYWOOD WORLD WAR II TRADITION The Thin Red Line is a three-hour epic about the World War II, directed by Terrence Malick, who made his comeback to the film industry after 20 years with a subject that had been neglected for almost as long.(1) The film is based on James Jones' novel, published in 1962, which was first adapted for the big screen by Andrew Marton in 1964 rather unsuccessfully. For many years, the book seemed to defy cinematic adaptation due to its deliberately choppy, episodic storyline, its lack of a single heroic protagonist and the multiplicity of perspectives.(2) However, Malick tried to overcome these obstacles by creating a film which broke "most of the commercial rules about narrative and drama"(3), as a critic observes. My interest in The Thin Red Line is therefore twofold: firstly, I will try...
110 Years of South African Cinema (Part 2)
Authors: Botha Martin P.
Published: August 2019

The following article is the concluding half (part 1 published in Kinema Spring 2006) of a three-section historical overview of South African cinema from early beginnings as newsreels during the Anglo-Boer War to the recent international acclaim for features such as Tsotsi. Some of the veterans of South African cinema are also acknowledged. The last section of this article is dedicated to South African documentary filmmaking. (2) PROFILES OF VETERAN DIRECTORS ALTHOUGH 1994 saw the birth of democracy in South Africa our film industry is much older; in fact, our great documentary film tradition dates back to 1896 and the Anglo-Boer War.(1) While celebrating the past ten years of democracy, we shouldn't forget those filmmakers who created films against all the odds. Jans Rautenbach (Jannie Totsiens), Ross Devenish (Marigolds in August) and the younger generation of the 1980s challenged moral and political censorship, a severe lack of...
Cannes 2006
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

FEATURE REPORT: GILLES JACOB LOOKS TO THE FUTURE The 59th Festival de Cannes (17-28 May 2006) was already preparing for its 60th birthday party in 2007. That's the impression I got during an all-embracing and far-ranging conversation with Gilles Jacob, festival President and close observer of ongoing events on the Côte d'Azur since 1964, back when he covered the scene as a French journalist from Paris. When I asked him where he housed all the guests and participants at this year's festival, he replied bluntly: "We don't!" Adding with a smile: "To fit everyone under the skirt of Cannes during the festival, we would require 10,000 more rooms. That means four times more than what we already have!" Yet, instead of musing over the possibility of reducing the size of the Cannes festival in the future, Gilles Jacob talked about expanding its scope even further. "Right now, we need...
Figures of Style in Strangers on a Train
Authors: Dellolio Peter J.
Published: August 2019

PARALLELISM AND PROGNOSTICATION: FIGURE OF STYLE IN STRANGERS ON A TRAIN     "I certainly admire people who do things!"               Bruno Anthony to Guy HainesSTRANGERS on a Train is a parable about a wish fulfilment fantasy overtaking reality by means of metaphysical freedom, opposing energies, and deadly consequences. The film suggests that dangerous moral, ethical, and material forces are unleashed when conscious behaviour and subconscious wishes are in conflict. The narrative and stylistic organization of the film (based on the notion of inner-directed elements controlling the objective world) bears a general similarity to some of the precepts of Expressionism. The essential expressionist credo is that stylistic exaggerations and manipulations are commensurate with a protagonist's extraordinary anxiety and inner conflicts. For example, shortly after Miriam's (Laura Elliot) murder, there is a medium long-shot of Guy's (Farley Granger) cab pulling up to his apartment building with the bright...
The Team Film Genre
Authors: Strong Jeremy
Published: August 2019

CREWS, SQUADS, SEVENS, ELEVENS AND DOZENS: THE TEAM FILM GENRE THIS article argues that there exists a genre that it terms the team film. It is not claimed that the films discussed have previously resisted generic analysis, for they also have characteristics that locate them in a wide range of other genres. Rather, it is contended that by virtue of key shared properties - including textual features, the audience expectations and interpretive strategies they provoke, and marketing practices - these films additionally may claim affiliation to, and invite understanding in terms of, a common genre.     Andrew Tudor maintains that:     Genre notions - except the special case of arbitrary definition      - are not critics' classifications made for special purposes;     they are sets of cultural conventions. Genre is what we     collectively believe it to be.                                                            (Tudor 139) It should be acknowledged that what follows runs the risk of appearing...
Toronto 2006
Authors: Wee Brandon
Published: August 2019

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2006 North America's largest film festival came and went with some 350 films for its 31st edition. Toronto's prominence has as much to do with it being Hollywood's choice of setting for its fall product launches as it does with its time-sensitive obligation to introduce the currency of world cinema to domestic theatrical markets. This year however, films endowed with prestigious budgets or prizes failed to garner general favour. Here are notes on ten titles deemed too unfamiliar by a mainstream media fixated on familiarity: 2:37 (Murali K. Thalluri, Australia 2006)In a stunning debut, a director just past his teenage years injects the high school coming-of-age genre with a subversive dose of adrenaline. Opening with the discovery of a suicide in a school but without revealing the deceased, 2:37 peels away in flashback and introduces several characters all in various extremities of...
Cinemas of the Other
Authors: Padgaonkar Latika
Published: August 2019

Cinemas of the Other: A personal journey with film-makers from the Middle East and Central Asia. Cinemas of the Other is a film buff's delight. This set of extended, thoroughly researched interviews with twenty-seven renowned filmmakers from seven countries is accompanied by a pithy and useful biographical note on each one of her interviewees - just enough to give you a glimpse of their personality but never too long to give anything away. That something personal emerges from the lengthy interviews....