INTERVIEW with the analog collective Unzalab Milano – MILAN KROULÍK – Last year the analog collective of Unzalab Milano was invited to the 3rd Marienbad Film Festival. The collective's main members are Tiziano Doria, Massimo Mosca, Carlo Tartivita, Alice Vercesi, Samira Guadagnuolo and Franco Base Tartaglia, its founder. They often collaborate with different musicians, as for example with Giuseppe Chito, wh ...

INTERVIEW with the experimental filmmaker Mikel Guillén – MILAN KROULÍK – From where do images emerge?, is one of the questions that come to my mind when I let in the work of the Toronto based director Mikel Guillén wash over me. His tenth and newest short film, Intermission (2017), which has not yet officially premiered, expresses, like most of his previous work, a restlessness underlying the quiet images ...

INTERVIEW with the experimental filmmaker Scott Barley – MILAN KROULÍK – The work of the Welsh experimental filmmaker Scott Barley (b. 1992) can be characterized by its obsession with the night and a sense for the cosmic. Watching one of his films is to be immersed into a world of landscapes, plants and animals shrouded in a deep, dark night or cold fog. The presence of the medium used, be it film or digita ...

EXPERIMENTAL FILM – Review – BOOK: Art and Text (Aimee Selby ed., London: Black Dog Publishing, 2009/2016) – MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ – translated by IVANA FORMANOVÁ In 2009, British publishing house Black Dog Publishing, focused mainly on “beautifully illustrated books which represent a fresh, eclectic move on contemporary culture” as well as on books of Art, Architecture, Design or Environmental issues, (( “About ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOOK REVIEW: Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (ed.: Robert Miklitsch, University of Illinois Press, 2014) – JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by Daniela Vymětalová) – Českojazyčná verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here If we were to seek a film phenomenon that doesn’t cease to be popular both with viewers and film researchers, we would undoubtedly find film noir. Whilst th ...

REPORT: Il Cinema Ritrovato 2014 – MILAN HAIN – Translated by Daniela Vymětalová Česká verze textu je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the text is available here The annual film celebration in Italian Bologna started three days earlier this year. The XXVIII edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival was preceded by a conference that celebrated the centenary of the birth of Chaplin’s Little Tramp. T ...

BOOK REVIEW: Spike Lee's America (David Sterritt, 2013) - MILAN HAIN -  Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here In the filmography of Spike Lee (born 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia) we can find critically acclaimed and commercially successful films (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, 25th Hour or Inside Man) alongside almost unprecedented flops (Girl 6, She Hate Me ...

BOOK REVIEW: Nightmare Alley. Film Noir and the American Dream (Mark Osteen, 2013) - MILAN HAIN -  Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech version of the review is available here With literally hundreds of books about film noir (and with new additions to the noir bibliography each month) it is extremely difficult to come up with an unexplored topic or a fresh historiographical/analytical approach. In hi ...