TARAN

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.

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.