Date: 30.07.2025
Beginning: 19:00

The screening selection brings together three audiovisual works that explore the representation of reality through speculative strategies. Situated between documentary and fiction, archival footage and performative staging, the films present narratives that may never have happened. The authors deliberately manipulate image and narration to expose hidden layers of events, unmask institutional manipulation, or ironically comment on the absurdity of ideological constructs. These works subvert genre conventions and challenge viewer expectations, thereby questioning the boundaries between reality and its mediated image. Here, both humor and uncertainty serve as tools to destabilize trust in “real” events – and as an invitation to reflect on whom and what we trust in a world of mediated images.

Screened videos:
Michal Pěchouček: Obvyklé rukojmí, 2001, 13’28”
Brian Springer: SPIN, 1995, 57’30”
Adéla Babanová: Return to Adriaport, 2013, 14’23”

Screening: July 30, 2025, 7 pm (etc. gallery, Sarajevská 16, Prague 2)

Online screening: July 31 – August 6, 2025
Curator: Nela Klajbanová
Graphic design: Nela Klímová
Translation and subtitle timing: Markéta Effenbergerová
Production: Sára Märc, Tereza Vinklárková

The videos are presented in both Czech and English.

The visual features a video still from Obvyklé rukojmí by Michal Pěchouček.

The project is supported by the City of Prague and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.