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Right now is now!
Abramjan, Andran ; GOGOLA, Jan (advisor) ; VACHEK, Karel (referee)
The thesis deals with the use of absurdity in documentary cinema and its role in our understanding of the world. It defines the absurdity as an illusion of nonsense (or sense) which arises from removing various phenomena from their usual contexts and putting them together while forming a new, unusual context. These new contexts may not be entirely random and often have a specific function in a number of artistic works. By dissolving the illusion of the non/sense we can acquire a deeper insight into certain matters. But even if the illusion remains, the absurdity itself stimulates our imagination by questioning our patterns of perceiving the world. The author discusses various cases of absurdity that arise from ideologies, inventions, encounters of remote paradigms or contradictory information in the human mind and their use in documentary films, including his own works.
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Radek Pilař "again finding childhood of arts"
Komrzýová, Adéla ; VACHEK, Karel (advisor) ; DAŇHEL, Jan (referee)
This thesis discovers personality of Radek Pilar on a personal, public and artistic level. Through personal diary entries, texts written in periodicals dealing with visual arts, interviews of different genres and unpublished reflections on the future of electronic moving image, I try to reconstruct Pilar personality and its space in the Czechoslovak context of art and time.
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Boredom in the film Untitled
Bernátková, Tereza ; Kratochvíl, Jaroslav (advisor) ; VACHEK, Karel (referee)
Based on a literature in the fields of psychology, visual anthropology and sensory ethnography the thesis examines boredom in film, especially the critical potential the boredom has. The key is the question, what happens in film if seemingly nothing is going on. Boredom in film is studied specifically on the example of Stephanie Spray's fims, anthropologist and filmmaker associated with Sensory Ethrnography Lab (SEL). Boredom is conceptualized as an interesting emotion encouraging sensing here and now. The thesis does not promote boredom, rather shows it as an sustainable approach towards audiovisual media and representation of the reality.
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CZECH GREEN´S 2003 - 2005 / filming life of political party
Matějková, Daniela ; JANEČEK, Vít (advisor) ; VACHEK, Karel (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to create a study of my own time-lapse documentary movie
about the Green Party. It tries to grasp my own longtime relationship with the party and with
the movie aiming to find final interpretation of the facts that happened in the years 2003-
2005 in which the party was facing radical transformation. It reflects more personal
than academic interpretation of the movie and the political situation itself. It is based on
several historical film documents which try to set lights to the facts that are usually hidden to
everyday viewer.
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THE IMAGE OF DISSIDENT IN CZECH DOCUMENTARY FILM AFTER 1989
Kohout, Martin ; VACHEK, Karel (advisor) ; HENDRICH, Vladimír (referee)
The work is attempting to describe the mental image of a dissident, the way it was most oftenly interpreted in the post Velvet revolution period films known to the public or regularly shown on the televion screens. For this purpose was chosen 53 films, which were devided according to their general interpretation and impression. I followed with an analyzation of the montage and bulding elements, that are used in these films, most oftenly shaping the opinion of the general public. The interpretations and contents of these films were compared to the results of the social-sientific research on the nature of normalization period and the dissent. Also these generally popular films were compared with the works standing outside of the mainstream documentary film, about the topic of dissent or previous regime in general.
This theses is therefore refering to the problems of interpretation of the previous regime, normalization and the role of dissent in czech society.
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Autismus in film / Out is mus in documentary film
Wagner, Jakub ; VACHEK, Karel (advisor) ; GOGOLA, Jan (referee)
OUT - IS - TIC FILM
Emerging documentary underground in the Czech Republic
Standard is NOT TO SHOOT!
The diplom thesis as a manifest - as a way to free artistic expression.
As the author of the thesis, I come out of both practical and theoretical experience. I also use the knowledge of (not only) documentary film while studying it and living it in its many forms in everyday life.
I am trying to indicate and name contemporary problems of filming, financing and finding employment of a documentary filmmaker in the context of the system and society.
The goal of my work is to emphasize the importance of free artistic expression in contemporary documentary film that has come close to mainstream. I would like
to describe new borders between commercial production and independen cinema,
i.e. underground. Artists, whose work is more close to poetry, visual arts, videoarts or experimental films, and who perceive artistic and social values in a different perspective, have great trouble to realize any of their ideas and scripts. This is mainly because of complex structure of (financial) power acroos the TV stations and funds.
Documentary film has become a very impressive and desired product.
Artists not willing to accommodate with commercial, voguish and "art" trends are pushing out of the instituions where all the directors able to adapt themselves in the system and society are easily accepted. I refer to the first ones (inculding myself) as to the outistic and I also refer to their films as to the outistic ones. Using them , I would like to demonstrate my attitude to the situation. Out means: stand out of something, to be outside, to be switched off.
I understand the term "outistic film" as a contemporary name and authorial term for an independent documentary film with its roots in the Czech documentary environment. The expression "outism" originated as an anagram to the word "autism".
in the latter part of my paper, I focus on the phenomenon of the female documentary filmmmakers who studied at FAMU in the past ten years. Their attitude ti the filmmaking is unusualy natural, unique and outistis. At the same time, it is standard for them not to shoot!
Key words:
Out-, be far from, be switched off, be at stake, be out of game, underground, poetry, money, to have a lot of money, image, TV station, cars, vision, power.
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