Date: 12.11.2024
Beginning: 19:00

Kino GAVU at AVU Veletržní is a screening program dedicated to the art of the moving image. The next event organized by Kino GAVU will be a lecture by Jáchym Šidlák accompanied by the premiere of his video essay 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?

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.

The video essay will be screened in English with Czech subtitles.

 

Jáchym Šidlák: Towards Eremos: Form, Emptiness, Posthumanism (15:00, 2024)

 

Kino GAVU: Černý sál, Veletržní 625/61, 12. 11. 2024, 19:00