Gallery

ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME – EXHIBITIONS

Jihlava IDFF 2011 presents several exhibitions in the course of the whole festival. You will find them in the new Festival Gallery and the Zacheus Club.

Best Film Festival Poster Exhibition

* Festival Gallery / Vysočina County Gallery, Masarykovo square 24
* Tuesday, October 25 (3 – 8 p.m.), Wednesday, October 26 – Saturday, October 29 (10 a.m. – 8 p.m.), Sunday, October 30 (10 a.m. – 6 p.m.)

The 15th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival will host the second Festival Identity Workshop. The meeting of film professionals will be accompanied by the Best Festival Poster 2010-2011 Exhibition.

The following awards will be awarded:

* Best Festival Poster 2011 Award / by participants of the Festival Identity Workshop
* Audience Award / by festival visitors

Laboratorium

The Laboratorium has been opened for projections of reality into explosive forms of visual and audiovisual works that go in search of personal aesthetic paths without losing touch with the everyday physical world in which we live and its documentary or archival representations. At the Vysočina County Gallery on Masaryk Square, one room has been turned into an alchemist space for experimenting with depictions of reality. This year’s exhibition looks at two motifs: reading the landscape and the topology of housing.

Photographs, screenings, and artefacts/tools reflect the openness of the landscape, the endless structures of the city, or the well-defined space of the intimate world: Michal Kindernay has put together a sensory audiovisual tool and given it control over recording his daily existence; Filip Cenek works with static scenes of personal memory, which he interrupts through text that sometimes flows in harmony and sometimes acts as a counterpoint to the images; in one of his series of works, surrealist Jan Daňhel uses photography as an imprint of a literary text. In another series, he enlarges inconspicuous details in the background of photographs in order to show us the home belonging to the author of controversial images found on negatives discarded on children’s playgrounds. The exhibited works’ common denominator is the artists’ personal attention to everyday reality.

“Laboratorium” is not a typical gallery exhibition – it is the off -screen program for the “Fascinations” section of experimental fi lm. The moving images play with reality in various ways, using various formal methods; they are screened at particular times, thus encouraging the viewer to return in order to see the next day’s program.

PROGRAMME

The Laboratorium presents both permanent installations and exhibitions you can watch any time and alternating video installations projected in loops.

Camera Altera / Michal Kindernay / every day

A compact device consisting of a camera, microphone, and sensors analyses its surroundings and automatically records sound and video. It is sensitive to light, heat, moisture, sound, and air quality. By assessing its current surroundings, it determines when and how to fi lm its daily record.

Landscape and Revolution / Jan Daňhel / every day

A socio-botanical photographic essay on the motives from Jiří Sádlo’s book Landscape and Revolution. A choreography of branches slices the picture into pieces of landscape, sometimes covered in snow, sometimes bare in the late fall. Daňhel engages in a textual contemplation of the boundaries between nature and culture.

Grate / Filip Cenek, Tereza Sochorova / every day

An asynchronously looped stereo slide projection. Through diary-like photographs combined with text, the artists visualize their relationship to memories: Life takes on the character of non-narrative structures, fractured sounds and images, small mutually alienated situations, fragments
and intimations, that we often reconstruct into different stories.

Reconstruction of a Pedophile’s Home / Jan Daňhel / every day

Photographer Jan Daňhel found rolls of negatives discarded on several children’s and school playgrounds in Prague’s Vokovice district. Their author’s interest lay primarily in Italian and German pornographic magazines from the 1970s and ’80s. In the background of each photograph, however, we can see his personal living space. A carpet – a blanket – an armchair – a couch – curtains – a string from a lamp – a rolling pin on the wall: By enlarging the incidental parts of the photographs,
Daňhel introduces us to the photographer’s home.

Video installations:

Praxis 8 / Dietmar Brehm / Friday 28 October, Saturday 29 October, Sunday 30 October
Nothing against the Wind / Flatform / Friday 28 October, Saturday 29 October, Sunday 30 October

On the Way Home / Kawaguchi Hajime / Tuesday 25 October, Wednesday 26 October, Thursday 27 October
A Walk with Nigel / Louis Henderson / Tuesday 25 October, Wednesday 26 October
Dawn / Krišs Salmanis / Tuesday 25 October, Wednesday 26 October, Thursday 27 October
Cross-Cutting / Tijmen Hauer / Saturday 29 October, Sunday 30 October
Mountain / Max Dvořák / Thursday 27 October, Friday 28 October
Vladimir Kempsky's Film / Sueoka Ichiro / Thursday 27 October, Friday 28 October
Extreme Skiing in 1930 / Sueoka Ichiro / Tuesday 25 October, Wednesday 26 October
State of Mind / Philippe Leonard / Saturday 29 October, Sunday 30 October

NEJi.na.k – Amateur Artist Exhibition

* Zacheus Club / Komenského 30
* 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Visits outside the club’s opening hours can be arranged via e-mail (frantisektichy@email.cz) or by calling +420 607 866 488.

The Ji.na.k. (Jihlava na kolenou – “Jihlava on its Knees”) civic association presents a traditional mix of amateur artists with a relationship to Jihlava. This year, 19 artists present photography (Petr Leidemann, Marcela Svobodová), painting (Paul Staal, Simona Zerai), collage (Dáša Komárková), textile pictures (Jitka Kučerová), and woodcuts (Radek Polanecký).