PAF

PAF Festival of Film Animation
and Contemporary Art
Olomouc (Czech Republic)
https://www.pifpaf.cz/en/

Special programme curated by Jiří Neděla PhD (PAF dramaturg / program manager)

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01. Advertising the Earth Radio - Stephen P. McGreevy’s VLF Cut-Outs
Zbyšek Semelka (LSFDA, UWB)
2019, CZE, 5’44’’

Advertising the electromagnetic radiation in wavelengths of around 0.1 to 15 kHz (naturally occurring in the atmosphere).

02. Prague! / Praha!
Matyáš Trnka
2015, CZE, 12’26’’

What is Prague in reality? Is it a place to live or a tourist attraction, money-making machine, where the original inhabitants are forgotten?

03. Funeral
Vladimír Turner
2016, CZE, 10’

One may get to like Most brown coal mining district. Even being aware that this tortured, strange and unearthly beauty is the result of decades of brutal and ruthless influence of economic interests.

04. Waves / Vlnění
Vojtěch Domlátil
2017, CZE, 3’'

Non-narrative pixelation of the Czech landscape.

05. Buffer Zone Blues
Franc Milec
2018, CZE, 8’40’’

At the brink of the Cold War, as part of the so-called strategy of mutually assured destruction, the US produced a list of over 2,000 nuclear targets in the Eastern Bloc, and the information was declassified only a couple of years ago.

06. Spell of Forgetfulness / Kouzlo zapomnětlivosti
Veronika Vlková, Jan Šrámek, Martin Búřil
2013, CZE, 7’51’’

Inspired by the life and work of German conceptual artist Joseph Beyus, film director Andrei Tarkovski, and historical and political situation in Ukraine and Baltic countries.

07. The Most Important Partial Precondition of the Succes Is to Get Well with the Creatures Within Us / Nejdůležitější dílčí předpoklad úspěchu je vycházet s tvory v nás
Ester Nemjóová
2018, CZE, 7’

Each spectator is welcome to take a small brochure, which works as a part of the video and communicates with the images through the presenter.

08. Aula
Michal Žilinský
2018, SVK, 22’’

The Area of Universal Latency (Aula) is a part of the large, interdependent system of specific places, rooted in the historical reality of north-western Slovakia. The dominant feature of Aula is the House.