Slav Epic Complex

director: Jan Strejcovský

original title: Komplex Epopeje

country: Czech Republic

year: 2017

running time: 55 min.

synopsis

A fantastic epic. A nationalist construct. Ideal for taking a selfie. A bunch of paint on a canvas that belongs on the junk heap. Anachronism. A transcendental experience. Working with the playfulness of the cinematic medium, the filmmaker takes us on a tour of the serious world of art, and gives voice to a theorist, an art restorer, a philosopher and a Japanese fan of Mucha.

biography

Jan Strejcovský is a student at FAMU’s department of documentary film. The Ji.hlava IDFF showed his previous student films Igor’s Great Emotion (2012) and Impotence of Power (2014) in the years they were made.

more about film

director:	Jan Strejcovský
producer:	Jakub Wagner
photography:	Filip Marek
editing:	Michal Bohm
sound:	Matous Sys, Jakub Jurásek

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