synopsis
A follow-up video to Pilař’s programme works of destructive animation which started in the 1960s.
In Flare Up, plastic cones and toys are subject to destruction, but it is again a revision of his previous work with a new video technology. Pilař electronically embedded his original film
There is a Doll Living in the Apple Tree (1984) into his assemblages and supplemented it with computer animation by Martin Hřebačka.
biography
Radek Pilař (1931–1993) was one of the leading pioneers of video art in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. Lying at the intersection of animation, video, and applied forms, his work was inspired by visual expressionism, pop art, and post-war avant-garde film.
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| director: | Radek Pilař |
| original title: | Flare Up |
| country: | Czech Republic |
| year: | 1991 |
| running time: | 4 min. |
