Jiří David - For My Father

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Jiří David

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 1994

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:13:05
Sound: Sound

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Audiovisual broadcast (TV, radio): Artyčok.tv
Date of broadcast: 30.4.2014
Link: http://artycok.tv/lang/cs-cz/25155/pro-meho-otcefor-father

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: JDavid_mix compilation (digitized from a VHS) compiled as a whole in ".avi",
particular works from it archived in ".mpeg".

Curated in The Window to the VVP AVU Video Archive at Artycok.tv in 2014.

Adopted text on the work: Jiří David created this film for entirely personal reasons: as a gift for his father (who had shot the original footage) in order to raise his spirits as he suffered from an incurable illness. “The film’s creation was entirely unplanned. I took my father’s 8 mm films and transferred them onto VHS in the simple conditions of our flat: i.e., by projecting them on a screen and filming it with a VHS camera.” David set the family movies from the 1960s to a mix of pop and classical music. The result is an emotionally charged work that David later decided to exhibit: “I first screened these films at a painting symposium at AVU sometime in the mid-1990s. This led to some misunderstanding, since none of those present understood why my presentation was on this subject.” The film is an early example of Czech video art to work with found archival materials.
Source of text: Okno do videoarchivu VVP AVU
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INFORMATION IN PARTNER DATABASES

Artlist #1: Record at Artlist