Dead Reckoning

director: Zbyněk Baladrán

original title: Dead Reckoning

year: 2014

running time: 12 min.

synopsis

The vicious circle of modern man. Statistics, psychoanalysis, income, and paranoia as the basic attributes of contemporary society. Four seemingly incongruous video sequences that share an intense experience of emptiness and sterility are accompanied by random contrapuntal commentary. An exceptionally unsettling work of video art on the fruitless search for the meaning of life in consumer society.

biography

Zbyněk Baladrán (1973) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His work focuses primarily on the “archaeological” study of archival video material. In 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008, he was a finalist for the J. Chalupecký Award.

more about film

director:	Zbyněk Baladrán
cast:	John Comer, Elizabeth Spacilova
producer:	Zbyněk Baladrán
editing:	Zbyněk Baladrán
sound:	Jan Hála

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