29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Catastrophe

Catastrophe

Zbyněk Baladrán, Zbyněk Baladrán / Czech Republic / 2019 / World Premiere / 6 min.


synopsis

The film references a one-act play by Samuel Beckett dedicated to the imprisoned Václav Havel. Ten image compositions are based on algorithms designed to simulate a two-dimensional image. A meditation on media manipulation, for which crime is just a slice of reality killing the plasticity of reality.

 

biography

Zbyněk Baladrán (1973) is a visual artist and curator. Since 2002, he has focused on videos. At the Ji.hlava festival, he has presented his films Dead Reckoning (2014), To Be Framed (2016), and Bezmocný zdroj veškeré moci (Powerless Source of All Power, 2018).

more about film

director: Zbyněk Baladrán, Zbyněk Baladrán
cast: Aneta Koelblová
producer: Zbyněk Baladrán
photography: Zbyněk Baladrán

contact

Baladrán Zbyněk
bldrn@email.cz

Film at festival

premiere type:World Premiere
festival edition:2020
section:Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
awards:Nejlepší český experimentální dokumentární film
language:English
subtitles:Czech
colour:Colour

Info

director:Zbyněk Baladrán, Zbyněk Baladrán
original title:Katastrofa
country:Czech Republic
year:2019
running time:6 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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