DE POTENTIA DEI
2016, color & BW, 66 min., 16 mm > HD video
A film about montage as the art of connection. A film about how things relate: images, songs, people, secrets, and the connections that remain unseen.
“De potentia Dei is difficult to translate. It would be better to interpret it,” says one of the protagonists. But perhaps it is enough simply to see De Potentia Dei.
A film on film and a film about montage, De Potentia Dei explores relation itself: between images, songs, people, secrets, and the world. Connections appear and disappear. Some remain visible, others hidden. Songs do not accompany the film. They connect it.
Moving between secrecy and openness, and haunted by Malevich’s Black Square, the film searches for a place on Earth. In touching the ground, it resurrects Malevich’s foot.
Awarded as Best Czech Experimental Documentary, Ji.Hlava, 2016
A. N. Stankovič Prize, special mention, 2017
Awarded at Marienbad Film Festival, 2017
Presskit: PDF
Pictures from the film:
Storyboard of the main motif of the foot:
Choreography for the song “Lieutenant Colonel” (32 × 58 cm):
From the shooting for the song “Lieutenant Colonel”:
