The Starting Point Can Be Zero (compilation)

english and czech
délka: 102 min
VVP AVU / DIVUS, 2011

Český videoart na téma architektura, prostor a urbanismus z videoarchívu VVP AVU

DVD compilation published by VVP AVU in cooperation with the Divus publishing house.

The Starting Point Can Be Zero presents various artistic approaches to the notion of space and architecture, from documentary to lyrical, from analytical to intimate. Some re-evaluate avant-garde utopias, scrutinizing both functional villas and housing estates, some question urbanistic mechanisms or roles of public space. Architecture and space can also be regarded as a setting, an immanent part of our lives with its own emotional impact. Places can have a nature and a memory of their own. Mental space and the subconscious are another featured level…

Artists:
Zbyněk Baladrán
Daniela Baráčková
Jan Fabián
Pavla Gajdošíková
David Kopecký
Eva Koťátková
Ján Mančuška
David Možný, Kryštof Pešek
Jan Pfeiffer
Daniel Pitín
Pavla Sceranková
Christoph Srb
Ivan Svoboda
Tomáš Svoboda
Tomáš Vaněk,
Vojtěch Vaněk
Kateřina Zochová

Editors:
Terezie Nekvindová
Sláva Sobotovičová
Zbyněk Baladrán , Pyramid, 2006, 2:54*Pavla Gajdošíková, 1147 adresses, 2009, 4:00*David Možný, Rahova, 2009, 5:51*Tomáš Vaněk, Dan Perjovschi in the NTK, Prague, 2009, documentary video, 21:33*Kateřina Zochová, Just Before Going to Bed, 2010, 2:56