1st session of VMS (Vilnius Media Seminar) is going to be on the 2nd of June, Friday, 14.00, at Department of Philosophy in Vilnius  university, 301 room, Universiteto g. 9/1, Vilnius

Lithuania through the eyes of Belarusian media: a case study of TV film "Litva"

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Seminar program:

• Screening of TV film “Litva” (ONT, Beralus, 2006; 70 min.)
• Analysis of the film: 15 min. presentations by key speakers from Belarus and Lithuania (70 min.);
• Questions and open round table discussion (40 min.)

TV film “Litva” is a part of TV documentary series “Fifteen” (about the situtation of former SSRS states in our days), which was broadcasted on Belarusian TV-channel ONT (Obchenazionalnoe Televidenie, http://www.ont.by/) from February 20th till March 9th 2006.

Nadezda Cvirko, the author of the film “Litva”: “I worked with the Baltic states. Certainly, at first sight everything seems so beautiful – expensive shops, hyper markets, restaurants… But only when you communicate with people, you begin to feel this country: then you really get acquainted with the situation and understand that everything is not so simple, everything is not so unequivocal. It was very difficult to overcome a charm of these countries in order to take an objective look at their situation”.

• Theoretical frameworks of film analysis
• gender studies (Nadia Gusakovskaya, EHU, Minsk)
• media studies (Alexei Krivolap, EHU, Minsk)
• cultural studies (Jekaterina Lavrinec, VU)
• film philosophy (dr. Nerijus Milerius, VU)
• semiotics (Lina Grinceviciute, VU)
• political and ideological analysis (Tomas Tomilinas, VU)