'Places of Act'- site specific project
for former Institute of Folk Art Production (ÚLUV),
Národní 36, Prague 1
Exhibitions, forum of the future, site performance, videoart, architectural lectures, pro city walks - commented tours of exhibitions, building and its surroundings, film, art bar and others.
THE BUILDING:
A Site-Specific Project
Film Premiere
A documentary film by Erika Hníková shot over the course of the 4+4 Days in Motion Festival in 2006, set in a former dentistry clinic in a building at Jungmannova 21 in the centre of Prague. The documentary records the transformation of the abandoned building once it is occupied by dozens of artists from various fields in a unique site-specific artistic intervention.
Director: Erika Hníková
Director of Photography: Braňo Pažitka, Film Edit: Janka Vlčková,
Sound: Viktor Ekrt
Cast: Šárka Havlíčková, Markéta Černá, Ondřej Cihlář, Jiří Havelka, UPSYCH, Buchty a loutky, Petra Vlachynská, Markéta Poislová, Miroslav Bambušek, Janek Rous, Eva Silva Melo, Tomáš Žižka, Mariana Serranová, Michaela Huffsteter, Richard Němec, Krepsko, Stage Code, Steffi Thors, Rebekka A. Ingimundardottir, Tomáš Bambušek, Tomáš Jeřábek, Halka Třešňáková, Dominik Lang, Jiří David, Veronika Švábová, Eva Koťátková, Zdeněk Perský, Petr Prokop, Adéla Svobodová, Rastislav Juhás, Pavel Sterec, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Kateřina Držková, Pavel Štorek, Ondřej Anděra, Tomáš Ruller, Martin Kohout, Jakub Kohl, Martin Rajniš, Jan J. Kotík, Zbyněk Baladrán, Patrik Sedlák and many others.
Erika Hníková is a Czech documentary filmmaker. She studied at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). Her films won several prizes while she was still a student at FAMU. In 2001 she won Honourable Mention at Ekofilm in Český Krumlov for her film Čtyři kroky dvojpůlka (Four Steps Quarter Turn); in 2002 for the same film she won the Josef and Marie Hlávka Talent Award at Academia Film Olomouc and Honourable Mention in the documentary film category at the FAMU Festival for the film Naše třída (Our Class). Her graduation film, Ženy pro měny (Beauty Exchange), enjoyed success in cinemas and on DVD, and in 2004 she won the Audience Award at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. Her second feature-length documentary was the 2006 film Sejdeme se v Eurokempu (I Guess We’ll Meet at the Eurocamp).
‘Fault rectification, repair, problem, diagnosis, research, laboratory. Artists, architects, dancers, light designers, musicians, and other artist who met up inside the building interpreted the motto “A world without flaws?” in their own way…. The festival’s organisers discovered the run-down building, re-opened it, cleaned it out, and lit it up. The charming thing about the building on Jungmannova street is that it often drew in people who knew nothing about the existence of the festival. And so the eleventh year of Four Days fulfilled its goal: revive a public space through art in a place where the inhabitants of Prague don’t expect it.’
Veronika Bednářová, Reflex
(festival BUS 20:45 ÚLUV › La Fabrika)
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