Archive of films Talking About Art / Povídání o umění

Czech Republic
2012, 9 min

Section: Imagina
Year: 2013

Talking about art with Rudolf Hrušínský. The film makes intriguing use of the various ways to modify temporal linearity, the narrative structures of verbal expression, and the lexicon applied to visual phenomena. Sometimes the dialogue disappears altogether, leaving a silent visual track with a highly distinctive atmosphere.

Synopsis

An audience-friendly "interview” which extends beyond the confines of time and generations to examine important issues concerning the role of art and artists in the world and society. Can radio, that apparently antiquated medium, find a way to open those strange borders between art and reality? Is the radio interview, both a very public and, at the same time, intimate format, a vehicle by which art can propagate its ideas? The filmmaker is also involved in a whole spectrum of other projects often realised in association with artists such as Tomáš Moravec.

About the director

Roman Štětina (b. 1986, Kadaň) attended the Institute of Art and Design in Plzeň (2009) and is currently studying intermedia arts at Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts. He is the recipient of the Essl Art Award (2011). His work examines the medium of radio and the radio play and radio interview formats. Over the last two years he has been working for Czech Radio 3 – Vltava, conducting a series of interviews with contemporary Czech and Slovak artists as part of the station’s Radiogalerie project.