PAF recommends a unique screening which will take place on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth. Place: Ponrepo Cinema Prague, Tuesday April 12 2016, 8 pm.
PAF recommends a unique screening which will take place on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth. Place: Ponrepo Cinema Prague, Tuesday April 12 2016, 8 pm.
Samuel Beckett has participated as director on number of television productions. This part of his work, however, had remained for a long time in the shadow of his dramatic and prosaic works. The increased interest for the audio-visual part of his work has been brought by the release of Quadrat I + II teleplay at the documenta X curated by Catherine David.
The 2014 Turner Prize laureate Duncan Campbell treats Beckett’s work as a source of inspiration. Some of his exhibitions are even accompanied by the screenings of Beckett’s teleplays.
More information can be found at the Ponrepo Cinema webpage.
Beckett-Campbell Quadrat
Ponrepo Cinema, Bartolomějská 11, Prague
April 12 2016, 8 pm
Programme:
Samuel Beckett – Marin Karmitz / Comédie / France 1966 / 20 min. / HD
Samuel Beckett / Quadrat I + II / SRN 1982 / 15 min. / HD
Duncan Campbell / Oh Joan, No / Great Britain 2006 / 12 min. / HD
Duncan Campbell / It for Others / Great Britain 2013 / 54 min. / HD
Dramaturgy and introduction: Karel Císař.
The screening takes place as part of the international colloquium CHAOS and FORM: Echoes of Beckett in Literature, Theatre and the Arts, organized by the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences Prague.