29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Powerless Source of All Powerplay
Powerless Source of All Power
Powerless Source of All Power
Powerless Source of All Power

Powerless Source of All Power

Zbyněk Baladrán / Czech Republic, Greece / 2018 / World Premiere / 8 min.


synopsis

This journey in a static shot from Lubomír Lipský's Cirkus je cirkus (Circus Is Circus) explores the relationship between memory and visual history. A fragment from the visual database of the collective memory is accompanied by excerpts from an essay by Karel Kosík on the inability of Czechs to affect real politics through democratic elections.

biography

Zbyněk Baladrán (1973) is a conceptual multimedia artist, curator and the founder of the Display gallery. The IDFF Ji.hlava has already presented his films Teorie Práce (A Theory of Work, 2007), 40,000,000 (2010), Dead Reckoning (2017) and To Be Framed (2016).

more about film

director: Zbyněk Baladrán
producer: Zbyněk Baladrán
script: Zbyněk Baladrán
photography: Zbyněk Baladrán
editing: Zbyněk Baladrán
sound: Ian Mikyska

contact

ZBYNĚK BALADRÁN
Farní 3
Prague 6 / Czech Republic
+420 604 127 810 / bldrn@email.cz

Film at festival

premiere type:World Premiere
festival edition:2019
section:Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
format:Video File
language:English
subtitles:Czech, English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Zbyněk Baladrán
original title:Powerless Source of All Power
country:Czech Republic, Greece
year:2018
running time:8 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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