Vít Soukup - Song of the Colts

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Vít Soukup

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 1993

SUBJECT

Other persons appearing in the film: Vít Soukup, Jiří Černický, Jan Novotný, Verona Prokopová, Jana Voldřichová, Jan Materna, Michal Strejček, Martin Strejček, Pavel Kopřiva, Kryštof Krejča, Lenka Urbanová, Adam Hlaváč, Roman Hudziec, Rastislav Juhasz, Marek Rejent, Marek Reyent, Lukáš Gavlovský, Jan Švankmajer, Stanislava Konvalinková, Lily of the Valley, Libor Kaláb, Mathew

COLLABORATORS AND PARTICIPANTS

Other collaborators: Adam Hlaváč, Michal Strejček, Jan Materna, Cyril Krňanský, Martin Fišer

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:37:00
Sound: Sound

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Compilation containing the work: Vít Soukup: Everything!, 2012
Attachment included with work’s publication: booklet CZ/EN

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: The film’s original title is occasionally erroneously rendered as Píseň coltů, instead of Píseň koltů. The surviving unedited raw footage is stored in the videoarchives of the Academic Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Included in the compilation Vít Soukup: Everything! Films and Theater Performances 1993–2003 (edited by T. Nekvindová, S. Sobotovičová) - published in 2012 by the Research Centre of Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (VVP AVU) in cooperation with Divus.

Story: Jiří Černický
Screenplay: Vít Soukup & co.
Title song written and composed by: Vít Soukup
Sung by: Vít Soukup, Eliška Pokorná
Title cards: Antonín Kopp
Directed by: Vít Soukup & co.

Adopted text on the work: A western with clichéd cowboys, an Indian, an oil baron, a delicate maiden, and a sultry temptress, Song of the Colts makes references to the Winnetou movies and the Czech western parody Lemonade Joe. Evil is on a rampage, and the only people to stand in its way are the newly arrived good guy Ben Sage and his allies – the alcohol-sodden Indian Kangi Najin and the local sheriff. This silent film with intertitles is subversively accompanied by a slightly out-of-tune piano. The intermission – a reference to the inane practices of socialist television – feels like a flash from the past, except that the cute romping kittens are played by waterfowl.
Source of text: Edice VIDA 3, VVP AVU, 2012
Author of text: Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
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INFORMATION IN PARTNER DATABASES

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