Attention Economy: 39 Minutes After the Presidential Election

Petr Salaba / Czech Republic / 2018 / World Premiere / 8 min.

synopsis

Petr Salaba’s film is a mosaic of videos that use different perspectives to record the actors and witnesses of the incident widely discussed in the media and related to re-electing Miloš Zeman the President of the Czech Republic at the end of January 2018. The film image, divided into several frames with parallel events, is a voyeuristic view of the exacerbated situation that occurred shortly after Zeman’s press conference at the congress Top Hotel in Prague. The journalists and film documentarists present at the press conference got into conflict with Zeman’s aggressive supporters after a man collapsed in the lounge.

“We have to find the positive Nash equilibrium. wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium” P. Salaba

biography

Petr Salaba (1990) is a Czech photographer and documentary film-maker who is currently completing his studies aat the Documentary Film Department at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He was also a co-author of student films It’s Not Only You (2014) and My Neverland (2016). Last year, his documentary essay, titled IIIIIIIIIIIII (2017) and reflecting the problem of machine autocracy, was presented at the Ji.hlava International Film Festival in the section Czech Joy.