
Watch Companion
Spoiler-safe reference guide to pull up while you watch.
Today, analogue video is attractive primarily thanks to the distinctive aesthetic quality of its pixelated image and raster errors. But for Czech artists who first explored the possibilities offered by video art in the late 1980s, this medium represented a path towards freedom. Through a portrait of her grandfather Radek Pilař, one of the pioneers of Czech video art, the director explores her own legacy of imperative creative fascination. Her film’s main story, i.e., the process of reconstructing the 1989 exhibition Video Day, contrasts this enchantment with life in the final days of the totalitarian regime, which different sharply with the adventures of those who decided to emigrate – whom the filmmaker also visits in order to discover forgotten works, get to know their creators, and re-establish broken ties.

Seduced and Abandoned
2013

Looking for Richard
1996

Room 666
1982

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora
2010

Downloaded
2013

The Class of ‘92
2013

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013

The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009

Visions of Light
1992