GRACIAS PABLO + FRINGE SHADES + TARAN

TRIGGER WARNING - FLICKER EFFECT!

GRACIAS PABLO (2025) | Jan Kulka
Format: 70mm, Duration: ~18 min

Ready made piece based on mysterious 70mm film reel of unknown origin donated by Madrid based guru of experimental film Pablo Useros. This film carries elements of an action movie with helicopters, chasing scene, law enforcers in golf resort and rollercoaster ride into a unique immersive cinematic experience with emphasis on the element of the space, wrapped around the twisted tracks and speed invoked by a dynamic rhythmical bursts of light that reanimates the individual frames of original footage into unprecedented space-time action eruption.

FRINGE SHADES (2026) | Jan Kulka
Format: 60mm film, Duration: 22 min

Colors are born on the narrow border between light and dark. Both in space and time. An immersive flicker film study focused on the wast phenomena of color shades both real and subjective. Gradients, brightness, darkness, timing as main ingredients - minimal input and maximal imaginative potential exceeding the realm of visual field.

TARAN (2017) | Jiří Rouš, David Šmitmajer, František Týmal
Format: film slides 6x6, Duration: 35 min

The historically first aerial taran – a combat maneuver in which the pilot deliberately guides his airplane into an enemy apparatus for destruction, took place on September 8, 1914, in the sky above the Ukrainian Zovkva. Petr Nestěrov - russian pioneer of aeronautical acrobatics, swept away from the sky an Austrian airplane piloted by František Malina at the cost of his own life.

Taran, using experimental live animation techniques, reconstructs this incident, and at the same time displays the transformation of aviatics into a weapon that has changed the form of warfare.

The team of three authors: Rouš, Šmitmajer, Týmal has been exploring limits of human visual and hearing apparatus for thirteen years. Their live performances combine film projection altogether with analogue synthesis and sound restructuring. Taran is their third common work after Swan Desert and Boghor Hunting.