Ajaloo vahendamine filmis „Disko ja tuumasõda”
Mediating history in a pseudo-documentary film „Disco and Atomic War”

Summary/Abstract: Historical reality can be reached through textual constructs. Reality is thus distorted, no matter how slightly. In addition, every period of time interprets texts in a way that suits best with current understandings and beliefs, admitting something and forgetting something else. Estonian pseudo-documentary film „Disco and Atomic War” (Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma, 2009) is an example of an audiovisual text mediating the past. Some texts are considered as more reliable versions of history than others, as reconstructions of the actual historical world rather than constructions of just some fictional world. So the question of the credibility and reliability of the text emerges. In the film this question emerges through the usage of means of expressions that conduct the story. All the elements normally constructing credibility and reliability in a docu-mentary are here used to mix reality with conditionality. The means of expression used in the film and the ways they are combined build up three levels. Each of these offers a different viewpoint to the depicted period. Together they tell a very personal and memory based version of the Soviet period in Estonia. It is important that all the different means of expression combined in the film are remediated into a documentary space. Within the whole the elements can change their modality.

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