DEFIANCE
The exhibition Defiance, on show at Hit Gallery, presents a three minute film project of the same title by the artist Anabela Žigová. The work originates from a series of intimate drawings made by Žigová during a residency in the city of Milan.
- I make films,00:00:12.104
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- either based on a screenplay00:00:14.483
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- or some other process, such as drawing00:00:17.591
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- or improvisation.00:00:21.276
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- During the exhibition "Defiance" at HIT gallery00:00:23.172
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- I present a 3 minute film project00:00:27.106
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- created from a series of drawings00:00:30.125
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- that were converted to a screenplay,00:00:34.327
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- the starting point for the film.00:00:37.765
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- This work was first exhibited00:00:40.784
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- as a series of drawings,00:00:43.635
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- an installation of drawings for a screenplay.00:00:46.206
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- I created it during my stay in Milan.00:00:49.580
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- Later, I shot this film in New York.00:00:53.207
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- The first screening took place00:00:56.396
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- at Nuit Blanche in Paris.00:00:59.262
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- After that we showed it at Columbia University,00:01:02.129
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- at the department of sociology00:01:06.683
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- during an event00:01:09.863
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- dedicated to the screening of the film00:01:14.116
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- that is set in the context00:01:21.009
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- of a sadomasochistic club.00:01:23.073
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- To this event we also invited00:01:25.573
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- an S/M practitioner and a psychologist.00:01:28.822
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- In fact, the purpose of the event00:01:32.459
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- was to stimulate a discussion00:01:35.629
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- about consensual violence00:01:38.364
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- as opposed to military torture,00:01:40.610
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- based on a psychological background.00:01:43.074
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- This is also what the drawings are about.00:01:47.960
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- They draw from psychology00:01:51.376
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- and resemble a psychoanalytical process00:01:54.602
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- aimed at uncovering the subconscious.00:01:58.385
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- The whole process of drawing took one year.00:02:01.708
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- It's something like a diary.00:02:05.194
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- That's the connection between the two.00:02:08.433