Křižovnická škola čistého humoru bez vtipu / Crusader School of Pure Humour without Jokes - Sorry, Fanda

[Excerpt from the film Antinomy]

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Křižovnická škola čistého humoru bez vtipu / Crusader School of Pure Humour without Jokes

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: documentation -

DATES

Date of creation: 1973

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:01:23
Sound: Silent

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Compilation containing the work: Czech Performance Art: Film and Video 1956-1989, Edice VIDA 5, VVP AVU, 2015
Attachment included with work’s publication: booklet CZ + EN

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Directed by: Dobroslav Zborník
Editing: Jiří Brožek
Camera: Luboš Štecko
Appearances by: Vratislav Brabenec, Eugen Brikcius, Karel Nepraš, Jan Steklík
Digitized black-and-white 35mm film without sound

Adopted text on the work: The graduate film Antinomy (1973) is a short biography of two artists, Karel Nepraš and Karel Malich, which the film’s authors (students at Prague’s FAMU) consulted with Ivan M. Jirous. Since it was impossible to make a film about Nepraš without mentioning the Crusader School of Pure Humour Without Jokes, of which Nepraš was co-director (along with Jan Steklík), the film depicts the famous game “Sorry, Fanda.” The game was born in the U Zlatého Soudku pub in Prague’s New Town, where the Crusaders had moved their regular gatherings in the late 1960s. Its title was inspired by the barkeep Fanda, who somehow tolerated the Crusaders’ presence. It is played on the same board as the popular board game “Sorry,” and has the same rules, except that, instead of game pieces, the players use glasses with differently colored alcohol. If someone’s glass is thrown out of the game, its owner has to drink its contents, return the empty glass to the home field, and refill it with alcohol. In Antinomy, we see the game’s picnic version, for which the Crusaders created a special outdoor game board. Although the game is staged, the footage is a rare filmic document of an important member of the Crusader School of Pure Humour Without Jokes and a poetic record of their activities. Although the original film featured a narrator and music, we are showing it without sound.
Source of text: České akční umění: Filmy a videa 1956-1989, Edice VIDA 5, VVP AVU, 2015
Author of text: Pavlína Morganová, Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
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