Mini DV on DVD, 1 min 19 sec., pal stereo, 2004 SK
online version
Videostills for download: pozor.zip
world premiere
Tanzquartier Wien, 10.10.2004, Vienna / AT
festivals
Viper- Int. Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Basel, CH, www.viper.ch
(03/06)
11th International Media Art Biennale, WRO 05, Wroclaw / PL (2005)
Independent Arts Festival, Sint-Niklaas/Belgium (2005)
screenings
Exhibition Coming Out, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, AT (2005)
synopsis
The "Velvet Revolution" (November 16 - December 29 1989) refers
to a bloodless revolution in fromer Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow
of the communist government there.
Started on November 1989 with a peaceful student demonstration in Bratislava.
One day later, another peaceful student demonstration in Prague was severely
beaten back by the communist riot police. With other communist regimes
falling all around it, and with growing street protests, the Communist
Party of Czechoslovakia announced on November 28 they would give up their
monopoly on political power. Barbed wire was removed from the border with
West Germany and Austria on December 5. On December 10, the Communist
President Gustáv Husák appointed the first largely non-communist
government in Czechoslovakia since 1948, and resigned.
POZOR was inspired by this topik.
It directs the view of the beholder and composes a visual output.
This view will be shifted by the interaction of the Performers.
Audio datives of impressions wake associations.
Laughing will be interrupted by the noise of rattling/clinking glass.
Take flight is possible. The public as a subjected individual forms its
own picture of the procedures and implement independent association-chains.
POZOR: Slovak: attention.
credits
concept, realisation & camera: michael mastrototaro
performermance: katarina mojzisova & sabina holzer
thanx to sabine maier for the making of...
produced by
Tanzquartier Wien & Bratislava in Movement
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