EXPERIMENTAL FILM – NETART – Window to the Past: Searching for contemporary Czech Internet art: 11th PAF invitation (6.–9. 12. 2012) –  MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ – translated by JIŘÍ SLAVÍK – This essay was written at the turn of the year 2012, when the 11th PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary art in Olomouc had been being prepared. One of the curated festival section aimed at introducin ...

ANALYSIS: Dita Saxová (d. Antonín Moskalyk, 1967) – VERONIKA ZÝKOVÁ – translated by DANIELA VYMĚTALOVÁ – Původní analýza v češtině je zde. / The original analysis in the Czech language can be found here. Introduction Using archived sources, I will outline the circumstances surrounding the making of the film, including information on the changes in casting, the quest for the main protagonist and financial is ...

INTERVIEW with TV theoretician Glen Creeber – KLÁRA FEIKUSOVÁ & MONIKA BARTOŠOVÁ – Letní filmová škola might be primarily film festival but this year it got interested in television as well. When we saw Glen Creeber's name in festival's official program it was clear we have to talk to him. Glen Creeber is one of the most influential scholars who take interest in studying television nowadays. Interview w ...

EXPERIMENTAL FILM – review – BOOK: Art and the Internet (Phoeboe Stubbs ed., London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013) – MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ – translated by IVANA FORMANOVÁ – Art and the Internet is a much-needed visual survey of art influenced by, situated on and taking the subject of the internet over the last two and a half decades. (( official PR text )) Art and the Internet Over the past few years, several sign ...

TV – ANALÝZA: Aktualizační tendence ve vyobrazení postavy krále Jindřicha V. v adaptaci televize BBC z roku 1979 – MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ – Následující text demonstruje využití interdisciplinárního propojení, jež nabízí studium filmové vědy v kombinaci s více sociokulturně zaměřenými obory kulturálních, mediálních či komunikačních studií (nebo jejich kombinací). Výsledkem je možnost vnímat problematiku uměleckého ...

TÉMA – FILM A MĚSTO: Interview with Charlotte Brunsdon – MILAN HAIN - Czech version of the interview is available here / česká verze rozhovoru je dostupná zde Charlotte Brunsdon is author of London in Cinema (London : BFI, 2007) and editor, with Jon Burrows, of a special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television (6.2, 2009) on ‘Screen Londons’. Her most recent book is a study of G. F. Newman’s 1 ...

EXPERIMENTAL – Mark Ther – The Alps in the Morning Sun – MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ Show The Alps in the Morning Sun, “running” on Internet television Artyčok.TV is prepared by Czech videoartist Mark Ther since 2008 is the sentence to begin this article with. Even though this sentence contains every essential fact we wanted to highlight, we are aware of the fact that we owe our readers little explanation and small nu ...

INTERVIEW with animator and illustrator Benjamin Arthur – VERONIKA ZÝKOVÁ – Benjamin Arthur is a young California based animator and illustrator, who brought attention to his works by his short film Once Upon a Time in the Woods (2007), in which he rotoscoped his brother, and later by two animations he did for National Public Radio - 3D animated The Billion-Bug Highway (2010) and roto Why Can't We Walk Stra ...

INTERVIEW with animator and programmer Bob Sabiston - VERONIKA ZÝKOVÁ - Animator, director, programmer and creator of Rotoshop, plus principal employee of Flat Black Films, that is Bob Sabiston, who was PAF Cult at the 10th Festival of Film Animation Olomouc, where he presented his various works.You may know his short movies like Grasshopper (2003), The Even More Funtrip (2007) or animation for Jørgen Leth' ...

SERIÁL - 11. září 2001: Meditations upon 9/11 and the War on Terror in British and American screen science fiction – ALEC CHARLES – Český překlad článku naleznete / Czech translation here Strange new world: Meditations upon 9/11 and the War on Terror in British and American screen science fiction   Abstract As the Cold War influenced forty years of screen science fiction, so the shadow of 9/11 informs ...