PAF VISEGRAD
PAF is the Czech festival of film animation and the yearlong running platform for Central and Eastern European audiovisual art projects. PAF staff arranges screenings, lectures, exhibitions, curatorial programs and bilingual publications presented mainly in V4 countries. The festival deals with the term of film animation in a wider conception of animation phenomena in the context of cinematography and media studies and it reflects social and cultural context of V4 countries.
8.-11. 12. | 16:00 | Festival Animation Now!, Gdansk, Poland | CAUTION! FRESHLY ANIMATED | screening
CAUTION! FRESHLY ANIMATED! is a cooperative project of Animation Now! Festival from Tricity (Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia), Poland and PAF Festival of Film Animation from Olomouc, Czech Rep. promoting young artists from both countries who work using different animation techniques.
Young Polish Animation DVD presents films picked from the participants in a domestic contest of the most interesting recent productions. Selected animations stand out because of their unique form and narration, fresh way of joining screen and music, and innovative mix of traditional and modern techniques – 2D computer animation, clay, drawing and doll animation, mixed techniques, and even animated wool or poured sugar.
Other Visions of Czech animation represents such works of art that are more often seen in displays than in cinemas. Their authors usually do not have any academic film education, but in most cases they come from artistic backgrounds. Thus they are well informed about the development of 20th century art that was dominated by the media of photography, film and video, as well as many artistic styles and movements. To these authors, moving pictures are only one of the many expressive possibilities they can use to create films lacking film narration and tight narrative structures. The selection follows the most distinctive tendencies – other visions that have happened in Czech animation since 2007.
25. 11. | 18:00 | Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, Brno | LAUREAT | happening
24. 11. | 16:00 | Anilogue, Budapest, Hungary | OTHER VISIONS | presentation
PAF offers Anilogue the greatest films from its Other Visions section. The section was created to host the works exploring non-narrative forms of moving picture and its relationships with another kinds of art. The selection shown in Anilogue is divided to three themes: Urban meditation, Transformation and Story. Each of them are emphasizing a different aspect of the videos: the first ones deal with the topic of life in a city, the second highlights aspects of change and transformation in a moving image and the third accents a narrative line in it.
1. 11. | 17:00 | Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, Brno | PAF & REWIND | presentation
A continuous presentation of contemporary artists, theorists and curators is the subject of REWIND project. Single lecture blocks take place in "double format", and their participants have the opportunity to directly confront their creative or theoretical approaches and strategies in various forms. The PAF dramaturgist Martin Mazanec will introduce Matěj Al-Ali and Tomáš Moravec.
26.–29. 10. | Café Tungsram, Jihlava | CONTEMPORARY AV IMAGE | film screening and presentation
The programme, to be shown in galleries and cinemas, is a review of the contemporary Czech (and sometimes Slovak) art of moving pictures, as well as a portfolio of current trends in the field of manipulating images. Four programme blocks have been arranged by mediabaze.cz editors, festival of animation and audio-visual arts PAF and with several invited artists (Dominik Gajarský, Roman Štětina, Jan Šrámek and Vojtěch Vaněk).
26. 10. | 17:00 - 18:30 | Café Tungsram, Jihlava | OBJECTS OF VIDEO | film screening and presentation
Objects of video serves as an interpretational key for distinguishing various forms of moving picture manipulation. The object refers to a topic or the basic material for the production of videos that are included in the selection. The subject is an existing film used in the same way as a sculpture, slide-show or the photography itself.
Objects of video: appropriation & allusion Jiří Thýn, Matěj Strnad, Martin Kohout, Matěj Smetana Objects of video: sculptural concepts Pavla Sceranková, Dominik Gajarský, Roman Štětina, Roman Přikryl, Jiří Havlíček & Filip Cenek Objects of video: photography Vilém Novák, Kateřina Držková, Jan Šřámek (VJ Kolouch) & Vojtěch Vaněk, Viktor Takáč, Michal Pěchouček,Daniel Pitín,Filip Cenek & Tereza Sochorová
27. 10. | 17:00 - 18:30 | Café Tungsram, Jihlava | DIFFERENT ANIMATION | film screening and presentation
The first part is devoted to the work of two graduates of Atelier of Intermedia, FAVU, Brno, Jan Šrámek and Vojtěch Vaněk, whose common animation work is characterized by an overlapping into other media. The other part entitled Hommage is focused on the generation of authors-animators between 2001 and 2007, the period that was dominated by the Flash programme.
Represented artists:
Jan Šrámek, Vojtěch Vaněk, Jan Šerých, Michal Jindra, Petr Strouhal, Jiří Havlíček, Magdalena Hrubá, Filip Nerad, Jakub Nečas, Jan Žalio, Petr Bařinka, Pavel Ryška, Pavel Strnad.
28. 10. | 17:00 - 18:30 | Café Tungsram, Jihlava | RE-EDITS | film screening and presentation
These videos are inspired by experimental and feature film with historical references and quotations. It is not about classic found-footage, but rather about targeted recycling of film cultural prints. These references serve as a construction of new meanings that, in extreme situations, lack fictional starting points and are gradually heading for image abstraction.
Represented artists:
Matěj Strnad, Roman Štětina, Alena Kotzmannová, Martin Kohout, Daniel Pitín, Filip Cenek, András Cséfalvay, Michal Pěchouček
29. 10. | 17:00 - 18:30 | Café Tungsram, Jihlava | VIDEO, SOUND, CLIPS | film screening and presentation
The starting point of Dominik Gajarský's selection is a classical form of video clip as well as an individual work on audio components appearing in video production. The generationally problematic area of Czech video clips contrasts with the unambitious illustration of sound and bustle. The programme which follows has been created by Jan Šrámek (VJ Kolouch) and will include contemporary works that use various animation techniques.
Represented artists:
Mark Ther, Jakub Adamec, Anita Somrová, MIDI LIDI, Tereza Velíková, Markéta Rákosníková, Dominik Gajarský, David Možný, Magdalena Hrubá, Joanna Jurcak, Jan Šíma, Veronika Vlková, Anymade, Jan Kokolia, Lukáš Vojíř
15.–22. 10. | ÚLUV – former Center for Folk Art Production, Prague | PAF & HAPINESS | exhibition of contemporary art
The subject of this exhibition is happiness, and so we are confronted by the all too familiar and banal question: What is happiness? The former Center for Folk Art Production building hosts an exhibition featuring different ideas of happiness as it is understood by a group of 23 curators of contemporary art. Each curator chose a space in which to present an artist or his or her own project. As a result, we are confronted with nearly two dozen artistic viewpoints on the subject of happiness – one of the strongest human desires. PAF is represented by the curator Martin Mazanec who introduces the work of two artists: Tomáš Moravec and Matěj Al Ali.
10. 9. | 19:00 | Ostopovice u Brna | PAF AUTOBAHN / END(LESS) SUMMER | film screening & AV performance
The Festival of Film Animation reviews its summer programme. Besides video-projections, the open air concerts of Table and Ink Midget & Pjoni visually accompanied by VJ Kolouch and Věra Lukášová will take place. The night disco for insomniacs will follow. At this somewhat bizarre place, known also as Hitler's highway, Tungsram Café opens its brand new yurt that is to become a shelter for all visitors because of its family atmosphere and selection of delicacies. Ostopovice will be an imaginary balance of PAF summer. It is no coincidence that PAF invited the bands that produces and the artists with who intensively and in the long term collaborates. // Photogallery
24.–27. 7. | 20:30 | LFŠ, Uherské Hradiště | CONTEMPORARY AV IMAGE | presentation
At the 37th year of Summer Film School the programme of Festival of Film Animation is entitled Contemporary Audio-visual Image. Several-day PAF programme in Uherské Hradiště is in fact a festival of contemporary Czech and Slovak moving picture art as well as portfolio of current trends and tendencies within manipulation with moving picture in galleries and cinemas. Special characteristic of all of the four selections is their thematic segmentation, because they are not just art school students' ordinary course work. The individual curators of the selections in the first place focused on areas that most frequently interconnect moving pictures of Czech artists in the new millennium. That is how the unique video collections striving for everlasting worthiness emerged. Thus PAF is presented through the section Objects of Video (Sunday, 24th of July, 2011) introducing artists such as Jiří Thýn, Pavla Sceranková, Vilém Novák, Matěj Strnad, Matěj Smetana, Martin Kohout, Michal Pěchouček and Jiří Havlíček and Filip Cenek; Different Animation (Monday, 25th of July, 2011) devoted to the work of two graduates of Atelier of Intermedia, FAVU, Brno – Jan Šrámek and Vojtěch Vaněk as well as to the generation of authors-animators between 2001 and 2007; Re-edit (Tuesday, 26th of July, 2011) inspired by experimental and feature film in historical legacy and quotations; Video, Sound, Clips (Wednesday, 27th of July, 2011) reflecting local video clips and video art. // Photogallery
15. 7. | 21:00 | Looney Bin, Veselí nad Moravou | PAF PRESENTS: Video, Sound, Clips & TABLE unplugged | screening & performance
PAF continues its summer programme and series of presentations at other Czech and foreign film and multi-genre festivals. Other event, which you can encounter PAF production or concert of dubstep Table associated with PAF is the Loony Bin which is annually held in Veseli nad Moravou. The fifth annual multicultural festival already starts on Friday 15th July, when under the auspices of the curator of the Olomouc show the Table band member and visual artist Dominik Gajarský prepared a band of present progressive audiovisual works under the name "PAF Presents: Video, Sound, Clips". This program intends to convey a survey of the frontiers between filmmaker's creation and motion pictures of film or video, created mostly by visual artists from the Czech Republic. The main theme is videoclip and sound video. Transfer of the motion pictures from gallery into the cinema, from white-cube into black-box, from black-box to the open public space. On Friday after 22:00 pm a Czech answer to James Blake itself, Liars or Former Ghosts and purely dark post-dubstep band Table will perform. // Photogallery
1.–2. 7. | Fest Anča, Žilina, Slovakia | OTHER VISIONS & PECHA KUCHA ANCHA | film screening & performance
PAF collaborates with several associated festivals and Fest Anča is one of them. On the 1st of July we the Other Visions competition section will be introduced there. The popular format Pecha Kucha will follow in Žilina on the 2nd of July. // Photogallery
25. 6. | 11:30 | Luhovaný Vincent, Luhačovice | OTHER VISIONS | film screening
This is the second year of the three-day multi-genre festival Luhovaný Vincent, which takes place in the historical city of Luhačovice and aims to present attractive young artists from a wide range of genres. PAF will present the Other Visions selection.
24. 6. | 20:00 | Klub Piksla, Břeclav | PAF NIGHT: Pjoni & Ink Midget (SK), VJ Kolouch (CZ) DJ Fool (CZ)| film screening & AV performance
PAF's first project for this year is the Břeclav concert of young glitch-hop and postdubstep Czechoslovak artists Pjoni & Ink Midget, whose debut album was produced this year by PAF in collaboration with the independent Slovak label Exitab and the newly established Czech label f341. The duo from Bratislava's concerts are refreshed by spontaneous improvisation as well as by the extreme sensitivity of Ben Frost, who is visually accompanied by VJ Kolouch (MidiLidi). // Photogallery
