Pyramid

Matěj Smetana / Czech Republic / 2024 / World Premiere / 17 min.

synopsis

A dazzling pyramid made of sugar cubes has been created next to the entrance to the underground realm of forest ants at the base of a tree. It has become an object of interest to the surrounding myrmecofauna and other occasional visitors from insect circles. Captured in thirteen chapters, the disintegration of the white structure is recorded by a camera with a macro lens focused on the gradually emerging structure created by the ants’ drudgery.

biography

Matěj Smetana (1980) is a visual artist, author of comics, objects, installations and videos. He usually creates his films for gallery environments. His audiovisual projects include the rotoscope series It's Only a Movie (2004), based on horror films, and the animation series The Factory (2012). Since autumn 2023, he has been directing the Drawing Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague together with Alice Nikitinová.