29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Lighting

Lighting

kinema ikon, Ioan Pleș / Romania / 1981 / 5 min.


synopsis

A self-referential film that utilizes acceleration, jump cuts, scraping, multiple exposures, and back-lighting of the film medium. The result is a dark work full of flashes surrounding the ecstatic dance of animated and living bodies moving through the landscape like visual vibrations.

biography

Before his emigration in the 1980s, Ioan Pleșh (19582009) made a dozen films under the wing of the kinema ikon collective, characterized by direct interventions in the film medium. As John Plesh, he continued to experiment with film and video and write poetry in the USA.

more about film

director: kinema ikon, Ioan Pleș

Film at festival

festival edition:2021
section:Conference Fascinations: Romania

Info

director:kinema ikon, Ioan Pleș
original title:Iluminări
country:Romania
year:1981
running time:5 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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