On Thursday 24th May, 2016, the Prague gallery VI PER opened the exhibition Black Maria, conceived by the PAF Head Programmer Martin Mazanec. The installation of this exhibition project that presents diverse (non)standard architectural solutions for film screening was designed by Dominik Garajský.
On May 20, 2016 the artist Tereza Darmovzalová opened the 50th exhibition in Vitrina Deniska in the atypical role of curator. The opening of the Clover near Water exhibition by the performer Kateřina Konvalinová filled the alternative exhibition space on Denisova Street with beer, sausages and live music.
The largest show of Czech audiovisual art in Norway, two festivals of contemporary art, the commissioning of seven new artworks, a seminar for the general public in collaboration with the University. Those are just the highlights of the more than year-long project “Festivals of Live Cinema,” initiated by PAF–Festival of Film Animation, Olomouc.
The curatorial selection by Lenka Střeláková Other Visions 2015 will be screened at the Czech Centre New York, Bohemian National Hall cinema theatre. The screening will take place Tuesday 29 March 2016 at 7 pm.
From March 16 to April 10 2016 takes place a unique exhibition project in collaboration with PAF. Dreams that Money Can Buy in Prague based Drdova Gallery is a series of 25 events held daily after dark. Dreams that Money Can Buy is a new platform for the contemporary art of Czech moving image.
Meet the curator, artist and theoretician Marie Meixnerová over her new publication # mm net art – internetové umění ve virtuálním a fyzickém prostoru prezentace, Tuesday 11th of February, at the Brno bookstore ArtMap.
In the first half of May PAF visited the British capital. Possibilities of future cooperation and presentation of Czech art was discussed with ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), LUX (Artists’ Moving Image) and Deptford Cinema. The future form of the year-long running activities of PAF were discussed as well.
The series of videos Other Visions 2015: Cosmological Anthropology from last year’s edition of the PAF festival, was presented in Brno On Tuesday May 3rd, 2016 at 17:30. The ten artworks were introduced by the coordinator of the competition section Nela Klajbanová.
Major Czech performer, conceptual artist and laureate of Artist Has an Award for 2015 Vladimír Havlík introduces a provocative participative project in the Emil Filla Gallery. In a playful way, he invites us to share the most intimate – our own dreams.
Following the unexpectedly great success of XY's first issue, independent galleries in Olomouc joined again in 2016 for the second issue of the unique “XY – art walk with exhibition openings”.
The sequence of exhibition openings, performances, concerts and other surprise events took place on April 28 2016. Documentation.
The screening block of Other Visions will be presented for the second time in the Studio Béla, Prague. Ten audiovisual works on the border line of animation and video art will be introduced by the curator of Other Visions 2015, film historian Lenka Střeláková, Friday April 1 2016 at 6 pm.
The third 2016 exhibition held in Vitrine Deniska will take place from March 24 till April 17. The exhibition curated by Katarína Gatialová will present the installation by Ukrainian artist Iryna Zakharova.
A cycle of lectures about Live Cinema organised by PAF within the framework of the Festivals of Live Cinema project continues. The autumn seminars What Is Live Cinema? with Greg Pope and Kateřina Koutná and the Tomáš Pospiszyl’s lecture In the Light of Laterna Magika, which took place in December, will be followed by the lecture What is Film?
