24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Buffer Zone Blues
director: Franz Milec
original title: Buffer Zone Blues
country: Czech Republic
year: 2018
running time: 9 min.
synopsis
The almost hallucinogenic whirlwind of virtual views of potential targets of a nuclear attack in a “buffer zone” shows the viewer an unpleasant proximity of total destruction, which threatened Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. The visuality of the film, reminiscent of direction finding, was created using the data from Google Maps.
biography
Slovak multimedia artist Franz Milec (1993) focuses on generative art, using data and Python programming. He exhibits his work, inspired by the combination of technologies and the man, both in the Czech Republic and abroad.
more about film
| director: | Franz Milec |
| cast: | Ian Mikyska |
| producer: | Eric Rosenzveig |
| music: | Franz Milec (sound design, music) |
| sound: | Martin Blauber (sound master), Sara Pinheiro (sound advisor) |
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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section: Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
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