Hopeful Visitors and Grieving Guides: Notes from the Travel Notebook of a Dark Tourist

synopsis

The tourist appeal of ethically problematic destinations is a phenomenon known as dark tourism. The filmmakers' itinerary for their tour of Norway included sites such as the robust sculptures of Gustav Vigeland, criticised for their proximity to Nazi aesthetics, wind farms making Sami pastures inaccessible, and the island of Utøya. Using performative and post-production gestures, they have attempted to come to terms with the plight of dark tourists.

biography

Jiří Žák (1989) is a graduate of the Intermedia Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and a PhD student at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. His video essays and installations deal with political, environmental and ethical issues. In 2020, he was a winner of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. This year, he has been included in the Berlinale Talents. At Ji.hlava IDFF, he has already presented his films Mother City (2015) and Night of the Hunter (2016).

Matěj Pavlík (1991) is a graduate of the photography studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. As a member of the Extrasensory-Aesthetics Research Working Group, he was a winner of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award in 2020. At Ji.hlava IDFF, he presented the film Technology of the Self-Touching of the Eye (2021), which he made together with Lucie Rosenfeldová.

more about film

director:	Jiří Žák, Matěj Pavlík
producer:	Artyčok TV
music:	Jan Kašpar

contact

Jiří Žák / Artyčok TV
jura.zak@gmail.com