27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Catastrophe
director: Zbyněk Baladrán, Zbyněk Baladrán
original title: Katastrofa
country: Czech Republic
year: 2019
running time: 6 min.
synopsis
The film references a one-act play by Samuel Beckett dedicated to the imprisoned Václav Havel. Ten image compositions are based on algorithms designed to simulate a two-dimensional image. A meditation on media manipulation, for which crime is just a slice of reality killing the plasticity of reality.
biography
Zbyněk Baladrán (1973) is a visual artist and curator. Since 2002, he has focused on videos. At the Ji.hlava festival, he has presented his films Dead Reckoning (2014), To Be Framed (2016), and Bezmocný zdroj veškeré moci (Powerless Source of All Power, 2018).more about film
director: | Zbyněk Baladrán, Zbyněk Baladrán |
cast: | Aneta Koelblová |
producer: | Zbyněk Baladrán |
photography: | Zbyněk Baladrán |