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Copying (Mother, Father, Child)

Cinema Gallery 2007 / Opičení (po matce, po otci, po dítěti) / Czech Republic 2004

Parents and their grown-up child voluntarily synchronise their actions. They carry out a normal activity in parallel with their opposite number and get to know the nature and rhythm of his or her life. The film is an edited recording taken from three 24-hour performances.

Copying (Mother, Father, Child)

Synopsis

Kateřina Šedá often invents unusual artistic games. She initiates programmes for others which changes their view of the world and art. Copying is an edited recording taken from three 24-hour performances. Parents and their grown-up child voluntarily synchronise their actions. They perform a normal activity in parallel with their opposite number and get to know the nature and rhythm of his or her life. The film is presented as part of the series Loyal Guard: New Czech Videoart.

About the film

10 min / Color, BETA SP

Director Kateřina Šedá / Screenplay Kateřina Šedá / Producer Kateřina Šedá

About the director

Kateřina Šedá

Kateřina Šedá (b. 1977) exhibits at documenta 12 (Kassel, 2007). “I never wanted to show my work in galleries, my dreams are elsewhere. Much more exciting for me is the idea that a myth can emerge in a specific place, that my actions will become a habit that people will want to repeat.” Works include Sleeping on Graves (1999), There’s Nothing There (2003), It Doesn’t Matter (2005). Winner of the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize (2005) and the Essl Award (2005).

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