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Experimental film in Buenos Aires since 2001
Moralesová, Alexandra ; POSPISZYL, Tomáš (advisor) ; ČENĚK, David (referee)
Experiment in any art discipline attracts attention and is associated with the beginnings, immaturity, and experiencing the new. If in the 21st century an experimental tendency is emerging in film, a medium and discipline considered to be exhausted and in decline, it is unsettling.
In Argentine film, experiment is first mentioned in connection with the non-conformist art scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Filmmakers Narcisa Hirsch and Claudio Caldini are representatives of that decade; they are also witnesses who connect this "first" era with the first and second decade of the 21st century, since they are, once again, among contemporary Argentine artists who turn to film as the medium for experiment.
Whether or not it is possible to talk about a tradition of experimental film in Argentina is not as substantial as (acknowledging) the conditions which accompanied its rise in the two periods mentioned. The 1970s were a period marked by the regime of military dictatorship. The year 2001 represents a turning point in which economic, political and social crisis erupted. In both instances, the circumstances wholly pervaded the life of the society and its art and can be seen as critical. Whether crisis creates the potential for experiment is an open question underlaying reflections on the contemporary possibilities of experimental film and art
in general.
The present work aims to compare the wider social and cultural conditions and creative and production strategies of filmmakers in the 1970s with the conditions and strategies of the filmmakers working after 2001 in Buenos Aires. Furthermore, with regard to the expansion of the audiovisual scene and its transformation into the field of arts of the moving image, it proposes to look at contemporary experimental film in Argentina through the practices of authors from different fields of art such as Claudio Caldini, Pablo Mazzolo and Andrés Denegri.
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Interier and exterier. garden as a strategy of a creative process
Moralesová, Alexandra ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Vojtěchovský, Miloš (referee)
This essay reflects on the meaning of a garden, mainly decorative, in European context. Such garden is explored as an act of representation. The variability of models of an ideal garden can be seen as a direct manifestation of variability of paradigms always inevitably connected to the ways of representation, which are the expression of the dominant ideology (where politics and aesthetics coexist). In that perspective we are dealing with the "Garden ? la francaise" and its latter counterpart, the "English landscape park". But at the same instant two essential questions arise: the first one asks whether we shouldn't talk about narration rather than of representation, and the second one looks into the possibility of perceiving a garden not through concepts and notions but as a strategy of creative process instead. That option has been opened up in this essay and supported by several examples of artworks, where their author's imaginative process might be likened to a garden.
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