Movie night

Resort
documentary, 26 min, 2015, director: Martin Hrubý, Background Films, UMPRUM, Czech Television
At the beginning of the 1960s a secret summer getaway for the communist establishment was developed on the banks of Orlík reservoir. The architecturally unique resort was designed by the most progressive Czech names in the field – they had been purposefully imprisoned to force them to work on state projects. In the days of unrestrained capitalism following the revolution, the site came into the hands of now notorious businessmen. This nontraditional documentary portrait, suffused with an air of mystery, captures the genius loci and turbulent history of a hidden summer paradise that was left off every map.
Thanks to Background Films and Martin Hrubý.
www.backgroundfilms.cz

Zlín Smokes Marlboro
film, 60 min, 1992, director: Eva Holubová, Foundation F&S
Zlin, Bata and the world of “enterprise” are inseparably linked concepts. The portraits of several contemporary Zlin enterpreneurs give their answers to the question – “How the things look in Zlin today?” Does the entrepreneurial spirit of the founder of Bata, Tomas Bata – the world famous maker of footwear, still exist here today?
Thanks to Foundation F&S. www.filmasociologie.cz

About Festival

The Fotograf Festival explores intersections in photography and contemporary art – just like its partner projects – Fotograf Gallery and Fotograf Magazine. Festival is held in Autumn months and it presents current topic through solo as well as group exhibitions prepared in cooperation with invited domestic or foreign curators in various Prague galleries and institutions. A series of discussions, atist talks, site-specific events, public space exhibitions, projections and guided/commented tours accompany that exhibition program. Fotograf Festival is the only thematic- and curator-conceived photography festival in the Czech Republic. Its aim is to promote the photographic medium and its broader integration into contemporary art and into the conscience of the general public.

The discussions, at which invited experts debate each other on the current festival theme in the context of visual art, are meant not only for the expert public, but for the lay public as well. Fotograf Festival looks to build a tradition and a new platform for a photography festival that places Prague among other important centers for photography and the visual arts in Europe. It strives to share contemporary photographic art and the creation of a thematically-focused space where the general public and experts from around the world can meet.

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