24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Sequence
director: Jakub Korselt
original title: Sekvence
country: Czech Republic
year: 2018
running time: 1 min.
synopsis
A melancholic metaphor depicts transportation links and the logistical construction of a futuristic view of a dark, sterile environment. Fluorescent machines and vehicles that serve man live their own lives until their last moment, when they fall into pieces of the material from which they were constructed.
biography
Jakub Korselt (1988) is a graduate of the digital media studio at the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně. He experiments with video and graphics and has presented four films at the Ji.hlava IDFF: Hoax (2016), Save As... (2015), Pioneer (2014), and Atlas (2013).
more about film
| director: | Jakub Korselt |
| producer: | Jakub Korselt |
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