7:30 p.m. | SUN May 8th
UNION DOCS, 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
The program represents a display of contemporary Czech art of the moving image as well as a portfolio of current tendencies in the field of manipulation of the moving image in the gallery and cinema environment. The title Objects of Video was chosen so as to represent its three integral parts (film, photography, sculpture).
Objects of Video represent an interpretation key to various forms of manipulation of the moving image. (1) The first part is based on experimental and fiction film in the form of historical allusions or citations. These allusions are employed to construct new meaning, missing the fictional basis and thus tending towards image abstraction. (2) The second part of the program presents videos featuring a sculpture or a sculptural concept further "formed" in the video. By means of framing and simple editing, a documentation shifting the meaning of the original "sculptural" works is frequently produced. (3) The third part of the program is comprised of several videos employing stage-managed or documentary photography. As static elements, the photographs are examined as such or are projected in the form of a slide-show, a presentation or image destruction.
Video Objects: Appropriations & Allusions
Jiří Thýn, Philips, 2010, 4:30 min.
Matěj Strnad, Der Absolute Richter, 2009, 3:36 min.
Pavel Ryška, Cheesy Desert, 2010, 28 min.
Martin Kohout, Diego, 2009, 1:24 min.
Matěj Smetana, It's Only a Movie, 2004, 3:38 min.
Video Objects: Sculptural Concepts
Pavla Sceranková, Moving In, Moving Out; Boxing, 2007, 2005, 00:55 min., +1:13 min.
Dominik Gajarský, You don't want me You just like the attention, 2010, 3:25 min.
Roman Štětina, Practice Solo part 1 & 2, 2010, 5:20 min. + 00:41 min.
Roman Přikryl, MLS 1 (My Little Space 1), 2007-8, 2:30 min.
Jiří Havlíček & Filip Cenek, Untitled (1. tune; 2. image that reflects itself), 2005-7, 3:00 min.
Video Objects: Photography
Vilém Novák, Once Upon a Time, 2010, 2:34 min.
Kateřina Držková, Die Grenze, 2007, 3 min.
Jan Šřámek (VJ Kolouch) & Vojtěch Vaněk, Untitled, 2010, 4:29 min.
Viktor Takáč, ... you tell me, that future continues in the past?, 2008, 3:07 min.
Michal Pěchouček, Passenget Train, 2005, 6:00 min.
Daniel Pitín, Lost Architect, 2009, 1:00 min.
Filip Cenek & Tereza Sochorová, Before the Sea (documentation of instalation), 2009, 8 min.
Jiří Thýn, Untitled, from the series Garden (slideshow), 2010, 5 min.
