Date: 12.11.2024
Beginning: 19:00

Jáchym Šidlák: Towards Eremos: Form, Emptiness, Posthumanism.

What potential does posthumanist cinema possess not only to decenter the human perspective but also to create a viewing experience capable of making cognitive absence tangibly present? How to approach situated viewing experiences when studying audiovisual works that question?

Video-essay is online in our media library: Jáchym Šidlák: Towards Eremos: Form, Emptiness, Posthumanism (15:00, 2024)

During his residency, the author also published an English essay Approaching Eremos: Introduction to a Recursive Research.

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Premiere + lecture

12. 11. 2024, 19:00

Kino GAVU at AVU Veletržní is a screening program dedicated to the art of the moving image.

Drawing on his research residency at the etc. gallery, Jáchym Šidlák from the Film Studies Department at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts presents a lecture that will also serve as an introduction to his videographic essay Towards Eremos: Form, Emptiness, Posthumanism, in which he explores the films Notes from Eremocene (2023, dir. Viera Čákanyová) and Womb (2017, dir. Scott Barley). The fifteen-minute video essay, which seeks to reconstruct two formative viewing experiences, represents an attempt at using this medium not only to analyze the works of cinema in question but also to productively appropriate and “remix” their affective (meaning physical or emotional) dimension.