Ji.hlava IDFF

[niminy-piminy]

haphazard awards announced preliminary in this thread (before)
i ceremonially announced again with plenty of tags and pictures.
moreover, (as some of you already noticed!) i decided to bestow one more prize called "translucent pervert haphazard award".
recipient of this honorable mention is the First President of the First Middle Banana Republic (my detailed reasons explicated in another thread).
thus i consider JIDFF2021 definitely over.

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[niminy-piminy]

all the films i watched
during 3 days (26/10, 27/10, 28/10) of my participation in Ji.hlava Classic (i.e. seen in cinemas in Jihlava)
and during the Ji.hlava Online,
arranged from shortest to longest
↓↓↓
1. Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (James H. White, William Heise, 1897, 1m)
2. Admiral Cigarette (William Heise, 1897, 1m)
3. Scene from the Elevator Ascending Eiffel Tower (James H. White, 1900, 1m)
4. Glasswork (Zdeněk Picpauer, 2022, 2m)
5. In Fall (Michael Bielický, 1986, 2m)
6. Digital Climate II. - I Just Want to Feel Solid Ground Under My Feet (Kristýna Sidlárová, 2022, 3m)
7. Four Seasons (Michael Bielický, 1984, 3m)
8. Neo–Aboriginal (Vladimír Turner, 2022, 4m)
9. Circulus Viciosus (Michael Bielický, 1985, 4m)
10. Perpetuum Mobile (Michael Bielický, 1986, 4m)
11. Paik (No, I’m an Experimentalist) (Michael Bielický, 1986, 4m)
12. Perpetuum Mobile 2 (Michael Bielický, 1990, 4m)
13. Transformation by Holding Time (landscape) (Paul de Nooijer, 1976, 4m)
14. When the Shot (Ana Bravo Pérez, 2021, 4m)
15. pliii (Tina Frank, 2021, 4m)
16. And Then We Marched (Lynne Sachs, 2017, 4m)
17. On my way to Freedom Avenue, I was Crushed in EDSA (Lem Garcellano, 2019, 4m)
18. Jack's Dream (Joseph Cornell, 1938, 4m)
19. The Landscape of Ashes (Eliška Plechatová, 2022, 5m)
20. JAN (Tomáš Uhlík, Tomáš Bláha, 2022, 5m)
21. Dromoracing (Daniel Burda, 2022, 5m)
22. ABCD (Roxlee, 1985, 5m)
23. Exodus (Michael Bielický, 1995, 5m)
24. Rhythm in Light (Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth, 1934, 5m)
25. Interior NY Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (Gottfried Wilhelm Bitzer, 1905, 5m)
26. Lizard: How to Perform in Front of a Reptile (Ludwing Ilio, Roxlee, 1986, 5m)
27. Even If Cities Would Vanish, We Will Remain (John Thomas Trinidad, 2022, 5m)
28. Non,sense (Michal Klukan, 2022, 6m)
29. Cows:Remains (Jean-Michel Rolland, 2021, 6m)
30. France (Mariangela Ciccarello, Philip Cartelli, 2022, 6m)
31. Riddle: Superstitions from the Garbage Can (Mario Mercado, Rei Nicandro, 1989, 6m)
32. Next Year in Jerusalem (Homage to Rabbi Löw) (Michael Bielický, 1988, 6m)
33. Child of Manila (Emmanuel Dadivas, Dange Desembrana, 1993, 6m)
34. In Manila (Mike Alcazaren, Josephine Atienza, Alan Hilario, etc., 1989, 7m)
35. Spectrum Restoration (Felippe Mussel, 2022, 7m)
36. A Guided Tour Through Glare, and Then Everything Stayed the Same (Martin Kohout 2, 2021, 7m)
37. The Great Smoke (Roxlee, 1984, 7m)
38. Holy (Elvert Bañares, 1993, 7m)
39. Energy Energy (Karel Doing, 1999, 7m)
40. Introspection (Sara Kathryn Arledge, 1946, 7m)
41. Fungus (Yoshiki Nishimura, 2022, 8m)
42. (X, flies, Y, falls) (Alysée Yin Chen, 2022, 8m)
43. Unreal News Reels (Joseph Cornell, 1924, 8m)
44. There is Nothing Here (Jean Claire Dy, 2015, 8m)
45. Over the Forest (Jacopo Marzi, 2022, 8m)
46. D-SEED I. (Martin Dominik Kratochvíl, 2022, 9m)
47. Lycaeon (Marina Hendrychová, 2022, 9m)
48. The Brief Lifespan of Fire Act 2 Scene 2: Suring and the Kuk-ok (Auraeus Solito, 1995, 9m)
49. Stay With Me, The World is a Devastating Place (Angelo Madsen Minax, 2021, 9m)
50. Two Marches (Jim Hubbard, 1991, 9m)
— 10 min —
51. The Geometry of the Hunter (Soh Boram, 2022, 10m)
52. Intersection (Richard Tuohy, 2022, 10m)
53. Unison (Yam Laranas, At Maculangan, 1990, 10m)
54. Science Friction (Stan Vanderbeek, 1959, 10m)
55. Phantom of Venus (Christiana Ioannou, 2022, 10m)
56. Survivor Manifesto - The Art of Making Kin (Dan Dansen, 2022, 11m)
57. Parting (Seppo Renvall, 2022, 11m)
58. Alexandrina - A Lightning Bolt (Keila Sankofa, 2022, 11m)
59. Manhatta (Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, 1921, 11m)
60. Europa (Franciszka Themerson, Stefan Themerson, 1931, 12m)
61. Prison with Songbirds (Ewan Macbeth, 2022, 12m)
62. Hacking the Future (Guli Silberstein, 2022, 12m)
63. Journey Inside a City (Sarah Munaf, 2022, 12m)
64. Three Sisters (Iman Behrouzi, 2022, 12m)
65. New York State of Mind (Mike Hoolboom, 2022, 13m)
66. Shadows (Raymond Red, 2000, 13m)
67. Life Without Dreams (Jessica Bardsley, 2022, 13m)
68. Speed (Tina Cordero, Guido Martina, Pippo Oriani, 1930, 13m)
69. Year 2000 (Gianfranco Brebbia, 1969, 13m)
70. Consequences of Man (Jeffrie Po, 2018, 13m)
71. Turbulence (Telemach Wiesinger, 2022, 15m)
72. Margin (Paolo Villaluna, 2001, 17m)
73. To Pick a Flower (Shireen Seno, 2021, 17m)
74. Serpentis (Sarah Lomenová, 2022, 19m)
— 20 min —
75. How to Watch Pornography (Mike Hoolboom, 2022, 20m)
76. Pro(s)thetic Dialogues (Alexandra Moralesová, Georgij Bagdasarov, 2022, 21m)
77. Passportless Mess (Maja Penčić, 2022, 21m)
78. Do They Speak Color? (Billy Roisz, Dieter Kovačič, 2022, 22m)
79. Chronicle of Nowhere (Chen Chun-tien, 2022, 24m)
80. Blue Bed (Lize Cuveele, 2022, 25m)
81. The Sex Warriors and the Samurai (Nick Deocampo, 1995, 26m)
82. Interim (Stan Brakhage, 1952, 26m)
— 30 min —
83. 07:15 - Blackbird (Judith Auffray, 2022, 30m)
84. We Want to Die (Martin Ježek, 2022, 35m)
85. The Fat Corner (Michael Bielický, Ricardo Peredo, 1987, 35m)
86. Oliver (Nick Deocampo, 1983, 38m)
— 40 min —
87. The Woman Behind the Tattoo Artist (Lauren Faustino, 2012, 45m)
— 50 min —
88. Searching For Jan Skácel (Kateřina Dudová, Michael Jiřinec, 2022, 52m)
89. Language Of Birds (Érik Bullot, 2022, 54m)
— 60 min —
90. Fury in Paradise (Eduardo de Castro, 1937, 64m)
91. Koudelka: Crossing the Same River (Coşkun Aşar, 2021, 81m)
92. Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song (Nick Deocampo, 1987, 85m)
— 90 min —
93. Highways to the Reich (Hartmut Bitomsky, 1986, 90m)
94. Kapr Code (Lucie Králová, 2022, 91m)
95. Music for Black Pigeons (Jørgen Leth, Andreas Koefoed, 2022, 92m)
96. Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed (Claudia Müller, 2022, 96m)
97. Godard Cinema (Cyril Leuthy, 2022, 100m)
98. Kunstkamera (Jan Švankmajer, 2022, 113m)
99. Licht: Stockhausen’s Legacy (Oeke Hoogendijk, 2022, 122m)

https://youtu.be/_5SdNPAnc-s

[...]

Man, that's a lot, even with the shorter films involved. That's awesome and I assume worth the time. What was your overall impression or favorite parts of the program?

[niminy-piminy]

this year, the most impressive was the Filipino retrospective...

The Transparent Landscape section that focuses on one specific country will this year showcase films made over a period longer than a century in the Philippines. Viewers can look forward to the biggest showcase of Filipino cinema held outside Asia. “It’s an exceptional retrospective that has been two years in the making and showcases the evolution of documentary and independent experimental cinema,” says Ji.hlava’s programmer Adriana Belešová.

during my 3 days in Ji.hlava, i watched only about half of the Filipino program (some screenings were the other days, and some screenings overlapped with the other program i was interested in) but i got intrigued and I hope to search for the rest during the upcoming (eventual) CoMo.

while going to Ji.hlava, i was aware of this retrospective and was looking forward to it, but i was not aware they invited the filmmakers too (something one might expect but somehow i missed this information), so when during my first (second in the program) Filipino screening suddenly jumped out of the nearby seat Kidlat Tahimik to participate on the intro speech i was SHOCKED!
the other person on the pic is Nick Deocampo whom i didn't know before the festival.
he is not only a filmmaker but also a scholarly type of person so his intros preceding Filipino screenings were great.


the other SHOCK hit when the first intro speech was concluded by the invitation to the gig of the band called The Brockas the next day.
i was not investigating the off-screen program beforehand, so this was also something i didn't notice in advance, i mean the SHOCKING "trivia" that Lav Diaz is also in Ji.hlava and will play on guitar next evening.

besides those mentioned above, also Khavn and Roxlee arrived.
i didn't know Roxlee before.
he was appointed a head of the jury of the Fascinations Section and was a frontman of The Brockas.
during the concert, he was making obscene re-enactments of the scenes from his animated movies.


https://youtu.be/ih9q8aFTQBY?t=315

The Brockas concert was truly the climax of my 3 days stay in Ji.hlava cuz during the gig the atmosphere was beyond sublunary (viz pic above) and i took hold of a priceless cinephile relic (Lav Diaz's broken pick) without striving for it!
currently stored in a silly decorative box i inherited a few years ago and couldn't find a purpose for it.
obviously, it was just waiting for this relic and now it is the central point of my home kinoaltar in front of which i daily pray!


the whole story of gaining this relic is like this...
my last screening of the day (27/10) was a retrospective of Michael Bielicky who, while studying photography with Bechers in Düsseldorf in the 1980s, came in contact with Nam June Paik and besides making a few namjunepaik-like short videos, he also shot an opus called THE FAT CORNER (1987)

https://www.ji-hlava.com/filmy/die-fettecke

In 1982 Joseph Beuys created one of his fat installations in his studio at the academy in Düsseldorf. Fat Corner consisted of five kilograms of butter placed in the corner of a room five meters above the ground. After his death in 1986, the installation was accidentally removed and destroyed. Bielický’s work refers to this infamous event and is also a tribute to the personality of the eminent artist.

so, i arrived at the gig in an already half-delirious state of mind (after listening for half an hour to militant leftist German artists, present in Düsseldof Academy in the 1980s, ramblings about the accidental destruction of the sculpture by Joseph Beyous made of butter and seeing it as the proof of the end of an era and advent of the commercial apocalypse).
the tent (where the gig took place) was already packed and thus i saw no hope to get among the zombies in front of the stage and thus fully relish the tunes.
BUT then fate showed me a favor and i noticed there are fewer ppl on the left side (around the booze stand) so i moved this way and bypassed the crowd.
then fate was even more favorable and some ppl in front of the stage were leaving to smoke a cig outside for a moment.
thus without much effort, i suddenly stood just in front of the stage (in near proximity to Lav Diaz whose guitar was nurturing the amplifiers with the soft melancholic melodies — in the overall mad atmosphere full of deafening noise).


during the whole gig, Lav Diaz has been torn apart between his prevailing introversion and occasional itching to contribute to the overall chaos by messing up with other musician's instruments or offering his guitar to the audience to actively participate in the gig not only by shouting into the microphone stolen from Khavn de la Cruz but also playing on his guitar.
thus he distributed to all the ppl standing nearby (me included) all his spare picks and urged us to hit the strings of his precious instrument.
after several episodes of this immersive music production, he didn't ask for his picks to be given back and he left them to the participants as trophies.
BUT then later he broke his own pick and was without any spare left.
so, with a minimalist gesture, he offered the broken pick to the nearest person (me by the game of fate) who participated in the previous cooperative guitar playing in exchange for the unbroken one.
fortunately enough, i was not yet fully delirious (there was still some sound reason left) and thus i understood the minimalist gesture, exchanged the picks, and became the owner of the invaluable relic with the potential to become the pivotal item of some film-related cult of the future.

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I gotta say that I often feel like you get the most out of art/events of anyone I'm aware of. It's a genuine pleasure to read your takes and recountings of it all since there's nothing else like it I see. Truly awesome stuff.

[rischka]

jiri is the BEST~

[sally]

love that kidlat appears to be nonchalantly interviewing a giant head, just the kind of thing he'd do.

[niminy-piminy]

[Lencho of the Apes]

The Brockas have material on youtube, there's rather a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JYM0u0HyMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYrZ9QVz99M

[niminy-piminy]

unfortunately, i can't find any footage from Ji.hlava (tho i witnessed some people making videos).
in Ji.hlava The Brockas consisted of Lav Diaz, Khavn, Roxlee, and two locals.
i will post more pics during (eventual) Filipino Como.

[Mauries]

Oh noo, I was there, but missed this! (and missed a chance to meet Jiri as well then!)

[niminy-piminy]

I was there

Was there any film being screened that you were involved in making?

[Mauries]

Was there any film being screened that you were involved in making?

I was there as jury member for the East Silver Market and to join a panel.
It was my first time there and had a great time; interesting film selection, nice guests, great venues (also for the parties). And I finally watched 'Pictures of the Old World' there (with an introduction of Hanak in Chzech) <3

[niminy-piminy]

I was there as jury member for the East Silver Market and to join a panel.

ha, just discovered something...

https://dokweb.net/articles/detail/1486 ... ps9F-WJ6z4

Ivona Remundová talked at Ji.hlava IDFF 2022 with Silver Eye Award jurors Emilia Mazik (Kaboom Animation Festival) and Mathieu Janssen (Go Short) about specifics of short films, submitting films to festivals early and much more.

https://soundcloud.com/idf-true-story/e ... eu-janssen

[Mauries]

I was there as jury member for the East Silver Market and to join a panel.

ha, just discovered something...

https://dokweb.net/articles/detail/1486 ... ps9F-WJ6z4

Ivona Remundová talked at Ji.hlava IDFF 2022 with Silver Eye Award jurors Emilia Mazik (Kaboom Animation Festival) and Mathieu Janssen (Go Short) about specifics of short films, submitting films to festivals early and much more.

https://soundcloud.com/idf-true-story/e ... eu-janssen

Hehe, oh no!

[niminy-piminy]

27th Ji.hlava IDFF (October 24 –29) will focus on female directors hosting Naomi Kawase and Claire Simon
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Lesser known Marguerite Duras
The Ji.hlava festival promises exceptional cinematic experiences this year with a significant showcase of French films featured across several sections. One of the most prominent will be a retrospective dedicated to the famous French writer, screenwriter, and filmmaker, Marguerite Duras.
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Ji.hlava will showcase a selection of Duras's lesser-known films, including television reports for the feminist magazine Dim Dam Dom.
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The festival will also present her film Le navire Night (1979), which captures conversations of anonymous lovers – and also the feature film I Want to Talk About Duras (2021), directed by the aforementioned Claire Simon
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more → https://www.ji-hlava.com/tiskove-zpravy ... aire-simon