PERSONAL LIFE OF A HOLE
2020, color & BW, 31+31 min., 16 mm > HD video
The essence of the world might not be something solid, but full of holes.
I ask myself: What is the world? We live in a time hole and our life is interspersed with shared holes of nonsense. We're always in the hole, trying to earn a living. Our memory ends in the hole of forgetting. There is the harmful ozone hole; the inexplicable black hole. Atoms are more empty than full, they are full of holes. In the ground there are holes full of trash and holes full of coal. There is a hole in our heart when we lose our lover. A window is a hole in the wall. There is also a hole in the film "Personal Life of a Hole. Holy hole, what to do with all these holes?! The film shot on 16mm colorful film stock contemplates contemporary culture, ecology, economics, and finally, love.
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A. N. Stankovič Prize - special mention, 2021
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival - special mention, 2021
Visual works were developing alongside the film. The artworks and the film influenced each other as they were taking shape. The works were gathered and kept in green binder and black notebook, forming a growing archive that later unfolded in the exhibitions Green Binder and Black Notebook.
Media:
- Film a doba: Osobní život díry jako Gesamtkunstwerk / Personal Life of the Hole as Gesamtkunstwerk
- True Story: Personal Life of a Hole (Ondřej Vavrečka)
- review (Business Doc Europe)
- kritika (Film a doba 2021, 1)
- Česká televize: A/Z News
- Dok.revue
- ArtCafé
- Akcent (18. minuta)
- DAFilms (Diskuse s M. Petříčkem a A. Slovákovou)
Film presented at (selection):
- Marienbad Film Festival, Section Works In Progress
- International Festival Of Documentary Films Ji.Hlava
- DOK.fest München, International Competition
- Academia film Olomouc, Czecho-Slovak Competition
- Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück
- Palić European Film Festival
- Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival
International distribution: Taskovski Films
Producer: Silk Films
The development supported by a foundation AVEK in collaboration with Petra Virtanen.
Supported by National Cinematographic Fund.
The film has been developed with the support of the dok.incubator workshop.
Stages of shaping the film:
Shooting process:
At the Džbán lake
In Paris
New Tea Time Machine
Ritual
Ritual in black and white
Annick de Souzenelle through the viewfinder of the camera
In front of the miracle (Simon Todorov)
Music recording (Prokop Jelínek)
Jan Mesany records a sound of flying crow using a dishcloth
Editing with a divine fruit (Anna Petruželová)