Vít Soukup - Vančo the Engineer

A “postmodern Krakatit” about the inventor of virtual reality

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Vít Soukup

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 1995

SUBJECT

Other persons appearing in the film: Jan Materna, Dita Postřihačová, Jakub Dolejš, Vít Soukup, Pavla Medunová, Adam Hlaváč, Lukáš Gavlovský, Jiří Guth Jarkovský, Jan Kukla, Patrik Proško, Patrik Hábl, Michal Strejček

COLLABORATORS AND PARTICIPANTS

Other collaborators: Adam Hlaváč

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:34:19
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: 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.

Written by: Jan Materna, Vít Soukup, Alfred Nobel, Sigmund Freud
Directed by: Vít Soukup

Adopted text on the work: An allegory of good and evil in the service of science, dedicated to the memory of Karel Čapek, Alfred Nobel, and Sigmund Freud. The young scientist Vančo and his colleagues build a machine that simulates a virtual reality but that also acts as a drug, destroying people’s lives. Accompanied by the figure of an angel, he seeks redemption in nature and pure love. Bucolic shots of the countryside alternate with a foreboding industrial landscape. A moral tale about how quickly a person can lose his soul and his judgment, and about the fragility of personal relationships.
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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