Vít Soukup - Old Mates

First part of a series: A drama of aging men and the search for one’s place in the sun

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Vít Soukup

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 1993

SUBJECT

Other persons appearing in the film: Jan Materna, Vít Soukup, Adam Hlaváč, Jan Kučera

COLLABORATORS AND PARTICIPANTS

Other collaborators: Adam Hlaváč

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:13:24
Sound: Sound

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Audiovisual broadcast (TV, radio): Artyčok.tv
Date of broadcast: 14.1.2013
Link: http://artycok.tv/lang/cs-cz/17425/stari-brasi-1993
Compilation containing the work: Vít Soukup: Everything!, 2012
Attachment included with work’s publication: booklet CZ/EN

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: 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.

Stunts: Ladislav Pfauser, Radek Šíma
Music: Jan Kučera
Title song: Vít Soukup, Jan Materna
Percussion: Jan Novotný
Written and directed by: Vít Soukup

Curated in The Window to the VVP AVU Video Archive programme at Artycok.tv in 2012.

Adopted text on the work: Vít Soukup shot Old Mates and The Silver Trail (1993) as two parts of an imaginary television series. Both stories are introduced by a television announcer who, in a serious tone, presents a chaotic tangle of banal interpersonal intrigue, as was the custom before genre-based socialist television series. Old Malina comes to visit his resigned friend Drudge, who denounces the vanity of life as a former member of the “coyote” generation of the nineties, deconstructed by postmodernism. In the end, however, Drudge lets his old friend pull him out of his lethargy, and together they head out towards a magic moment. The debts towards one’s own life story can be settled with the help of the kind of friendship that comes only once in a lifetime.
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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