Jubilee 15th ji. Hlava international documentary film festival
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WORKSHOPS: EXPRMNTL CZExprmntl CZ expands the Fascinations competition section through the addition of a non-competition survey of contemporary trends in Czech experimental film. “Fascinations presents extreme audiovisual approaches to working with reality, playing with documentary or archival material and with themes taken from true stories. In addition to four competition blocks for short experimental documentaries from all over the world, each year Ji.hlava also makes room for the latest examples of Czech experimental film, thus offering a concentrated survey for foreign distributors and programmers from foreign experimental film festivals. We are convinced that this section will help to inspire future audiovisual experimentation – both with classic film as well as digital tools,” explains Andrea Slováková, coordinator for the Fascinations and Exprmntl CZ sections. Films being shown as part of this year’s Exprmntl CZ include the premiere screening of Martin Ježek’s new found-footage work That Guy’s on Fire (Czech Republic 2011), which works with inverted Super 8 footage from Miroslav Bambušek’s Jan Hus. In his work, Ježek explores the transformation of an ordinary person – Jan Hus or Jan Palach – into a charred symbol. “In my interpretation,” says the filmmaker, “the film’s structure loses the order and chronological sequence of Bambušek’s original film. The focus is always on marginal points in each frame, thus expressing the subject of the film. The object and counterpoint of the found-footage sequence are long still shots of places associated with the final days of Jan Palach. The soundtrack is a collage of archival recordings and songs from the 1960s hit parade related to his act, edited according to a simple key: a static image means ‘play, music, play!’, while motion and montage mean ‘speak, word, speak!” Ježek will also collaborate with performer and multimedia artist Martin Klapper to present the live performance 45 Minutes from the Common Universe, a screening of Ježek’s chemically and manually manipulated found footage, accompanied by Klapper’s improvised soundtrack made using unconventional sources of sound. Other films in this section include Martin Blažíček’s 24 Hours (Czech Republic 2011), which presents footage from five Czech and Slovak households during Christmas (24 and 25 December), edited into scenes of varying lengths using automatic algorithms. František Týmal’s The End of the Dinosaurs (Czech Republic 2011) is an example of an unusual approach to the physical film material, in which the filmmaker has painstakingly removed the emulsion from the black positive in order to create images of falling meteorites at the end of the dinosaur era.
This year’s historical section, “Days of Expulsion”, presents newsreels and documentaries from 1945-1947 on the subject of the Sudeten Germans. Audiences can thus see the expulsion as it was presented by the era’s Czechoslovak journalists. Among other things, we will see a report from a memorial service in Lidice, President Beneš signing his decrees, a shot of the explosion of a sugar factory in Krásné Březno blamed on German saboteurs, and unique footage from the transit camp in Mariánské Lázně. These and other reportages create a diverse collage of journalistic accounts of various events in Czechoslovakia and abroad as put together by the directors of the era’s cinematic newsreels. The screenings will be followed by a public debate representing a wide range of opinions and interpretations of the films. As a bonus, we have prepared Sudeten German snacks made according to traditional recipes. THE KRAJINA FILES The Into History section will also show three diverse films associated with botanist, hero of the Czechoslovak resistance, and environmental pioneer Vladimír Krajina (1905–1993). This will be the first time that Jihlava audiences will be able to see the unique ethnographic film Aloha-oe, which Krajina filmed while doing research in Hawaii in 1927. Director Pavel Kačírek’s new film The Krajina Files (2011) looks at Krajina’s little-known resistance activities and post-war anti-communism, which forced him to emigrate after the February putsch. Even less known are his scientific contributions in the field of botany and his successful creation of nature reserves in Canada during the second half of his life – these are explored by Tom Radford’s 1978 Canadian documentary The Forests and Vladimir Krajina. OPENING CEREMONYAs in the past, the opening ceremony of this 15th anniversary festival will be hosted by the Vosto5 theater ensemble’s Ondřej Cihlář and Jiří Havelka. The ceremony includes the presentation of the Respekt Prize and the HBO Prize. After the opening ceremony, the festival will officially start with the world premiere of a joint project by 24 Czech documentarians. Entitled simply 24, the film shows one September day through the eyes of filmmakers including Jiří Krejčík, Helena Třeštíková, and Jan Němec. Directory: press -> 2011 press -> Draft I film Screening press -> The milk carton kids press -> Embargoed until 15 december 2005 15H00 gmt press -> Press Release world meteorological organization press -> Introductory Text press -> The project is part of the wider cooperation between Eni and Rosneft sanctioned under the Strategic Cooperation Agreement entered into by the parties on 25th April 2012 press -> El Niño’s Effects May Be Limited This Winter press -> I am particularly pleased that my last year at Kunsthaus Bregenz was so successful. There are very few institutions in which the architecture, the staff, and the art encounter each other so productively Download 167.4 Kb. Share with your friends:
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