29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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The Landscape of Ashes
The Landscape of Ashes
The Landscape of Ashes
The Landscape of Ashes
The Landscape of Ashes

The Landscape of Ashes

Eliška Plechatová / Czech Republic / 2022 / World Premiere / 5 min.


synopsis

In her intimate film-poem, the auteur uses abstract paintings as a means to observe the changing forest landscape. What starts off as green and strikingly familiar is later struck by fire and burned to a crisp with ashes becoming an integral part of its new form. Can the land victimized by a destructive force rise up from the ashes like a phoenix and be reborn anew?

“Just as I am now composing words for myself, I was composing particles of dust side by side in an attempt to understand how things relate to one another. Minerals of ash that move in the form of our needs.”

biography

Eliška Plechatová studied sculpture at UMPRUM in Prague. She is noted for her works Scales Do Not Fit (2022) and The Landscape of Ashes (2022).

more about film

director: Eliška Plechatová
producer: Eliška Plechatová
script: Eliška Plechatová
editing: Eliška Plechatová, Lukáš Janičík
music: Michal Šupák
sound: Jan Mesany

contact

Eliška Plechatová
eliska.plechatova@gmail.com
+420 601 553 935

Film at festival

premiere type:World Premiere
festival edition:2022
section:Ji.hlava Online, Fascinations: Exprmntl.cz
awards:Zvláštní uznání
language:Czech
subtitles:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Eliška Plechatová
original title:Krajina popela
country:Czech Republic
year:2022
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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