Cinema Gallery 2007 / Čestná stráž / Czech Republic 2006
A feature story containing a mystery and the subheading “romance from the forbidden zone” (screened at the Rotterdam IFF in 2007), signalling the artist’s shift towards independent cinema with supervised actors and genre approaches.
Artist Michal Pěchouček has used image sequences in his work since way back, initially in the form of photo-stories and picture novellas. His earlier video Pram Room (Kočárkárna) formally thematises the film strip, but he transfers its movement to the vertical position of an “unending lift”. The feature mystery story Loyal Guard (screened at the Rotterdam IFF in 2007), however, signals a shift towards independent cinema with supervised actors and genre approaches. The film (together with Pram Room) is presented as part of the series Loyal Guard: New Czech Videoart.
18 min / Color, BETA SP
Director Michal Pěchouček
/ Screenplay Michal Pěchouček
/ Editor Jiří Vyhnal
/ Cast Daniela Voráčková, Matyas Schenker, Philipp Schenker
Michal Pěchouček (b. 1973) is a key figure in contemporary Czech video, moving between gallery artefacts and independent film. “The videos, which I call films, depict a simple story with an ambiguous outcome. I generally animated the static image of photographs, but also inched towards the border of silent feature film.” Winner of the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize (2003).
Michal Pěchouček
Actor / Film Director
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