Muránska Zdychava

director: Janka Vidová

original title: Muránska Zdychava

year: 1992

running time: 4 min.

synopsis

Janka Vidová made this video while studying in the New Media Studio of Michael Bielický. The artist borrowed an analogue video camera from the studio and filmed her visit to the region of her hometown in Slovakia. Using visual effects and instrumental music, she edited the resulting footage into a poetic film that captures the dreamy atmosphere of the snowy countryside.

biography

Janka Vidová Žáčková is a multimedia artist and painter. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the post-revolutionary years, first in the studios of Jitka Svobodová and Karel Malich and then in the New Media Studio starting in 1991—right after its founding and the arrival of Michael Bielický. She participated in a number of key exhibitions in the 1990s, such as Video – Vidím – Ich Sehe (1994), The Czech Electronic Picture at Mánes (1994), Orbis Fictus (1995), and Dawn of the Magicians? (1996).